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PubMed:  An new Advanced Search option seems to merge History, Preview, Index, with Limits and Field searching together.... 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj08/mj08_advanced_search.html

...every science video on ScienceHack is screened by a scientist to verify its accuracy and quality.

http://sciencehack.com/

"Cited by" feature (i.e., Articles Citing This Article) for PubMed can be downloaded onto the FireFox browser.

"This script takes each result in a PubMed search and then queries Google Scholar to get the number of times it has been cited. Then it places a link with this info next to each search result, linking to the citations in Google Scholar."

http://www.plutosforge.com/blog/projects/ncbi-scholar

SureChem-Chemical patent searching database

http://www.surechem.org/

Search more than 7 million unique chemical structures

Complete full text collections of US, European and WO/PCT patents

Structures updated within days of new patent issuance

Advanced chemical structure and patent search tools

Export structure and text search results

Powerful result filtering and query navigation tools

Apparently they didn't get it right the first time.

"ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, March 3, 2007 for approximately 9 hours starting at 06:30 AM EST (11:30 GMT). During this time we will be carrying through a large-scale rebuilding exercise on some of core aspects of the underlying technologies, which will help ensure that the system continues to provide a high level of reliability in the coming years.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users."

Posted to the CHIMINF-L Listserv:

ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, February 24th for approximately 9 hours starting at 06:00 AM EST (11:00 GMT). During this time engineers will be implementing a large-scale rebuilding program on some of core aspects of the platform's underlying technologies, which will help ensure that the system continues to provide a high level of reliability in the coming years. We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users, which we hope we can minimise by providing this advance notice. Users who log in will see a notice saying that the system is temporarily unavailable. Daviess Menefee Library Relations Elsevier

http://www.chemindustry.com/

ChemIndustry.com is the leading comprehensive directory and search engine for chemicals and related industry professionals. Contains > 45,000 chemical industry related entities. Provides specialized search services for chemical names, jobs, market research, and consultants.

From the press release:

"The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announces the introduction of dbGaP, a new database designed to archive and distribute data from genome wide association (GWA) studies. GWA studies explore the association between specific genes (genotype information) and observable traits, such as blood pressure and weight, or the presence or absence of a disease or condition (phenotype information). Connecting phenotype and genotype data provides information about the genes that may be involved in a disease process or condition, which can be critical for better understanding the disease and for developing new diagnostic methods and treatments....the initial release of dbGaP contains data on two studies: the Age-Related Eye Diseases Study (AREDS), a 600-subject, multicenter, case-controlled, prospective study of the clinical course of age-related macular degeneration and age-related cataracts that was supported by the National Eye Institute (www.nei.nih.gov); and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (www.ninds.nih.gov) Parkinsonism Study, a case-controlled study that gathered DNA, cell line samples and detailed phenotypic data on 2,573 subjects. NEI and NINDS worked closely with NCBI in placing data from the two studies in dbGaP."

To search Google Patents, click on: 

http://www.google.com/patents

http://www.syrres.com/esc/physdemo.htm

This online interactive demo retrieves data from the  PhysProp database of 25,000 compounds.  Upon entering the CAS number, the actual values are fished out.  IF you click on the “Datalog Database” link, you can do searches for name and formula from which citation to property data on  values such as dissociation constant, vapor pressure, solubility UV, etc., can be attained.

Added Note:
ChemIDplus database uses this databse to extract their information.
http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/

If you need help:
Robert
Science Librarian
rtomasze@gsu.edu
404-463-9933

PubMed is now available as a search engine add-on on the search bar in the upper-right corner of Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0. From a PubMed Web page, click the search box drop down arrow next to the default search engine Google, and then select Add PubMed search.

P.S. PubMed is 10! Happy Birthday, PubMed.

NLM RSS Feeds and Podcasts

See also information on NLM Email Lists  

To add any of the following feeds, copy the URL below and paste it into your RSS reader.

 PubMed New and Noteworthy - Enhancements to the PubMed, Journals, and MeSH databases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/feed/rss.cgi?ChanKey=PubMedNews
See also How to set up RSS Feeds for PubMed Searches

 DailyMed Drug Label Updates - High quality information about marketed drugs http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/rss.cfm

 Library-LinkOut Announcements - Journal titles added to the PubMed LinkOut program
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/feed/rss.cgi?ChanKey=LibraryLinkOut

 NLM Technical Bulletin - Newsletter on NLM Web Sites for online searchers http://www.nlm.nih.gov/rss/techbull.rss

 PubMed Central News - Changes and new journals in PubMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/feed/rss.cgi?ChanKey=PMCNews

 Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) News - New resources, projects and activities http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/rss/sisnewsfeed.rss

Podcasts from NLM

Podcasts are multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, that are distributed over the Internet using the RSS format. Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., Director of the National Library of Medicine, narrates a weekly update highlighting new materials on MedlinePlus. See a list of all available "MedlinePlus: NLM Director's Comments" podcasts.

MedlinePlus: NLM Director's Comments http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/nlmpcast.rss

Subscribe with iTunes to the "MedlinePlus: NLM Director's Comments" podcast

http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

A new open access (OA) website for chemists. Chemistry Central brings peer-reviewed research in chemistry from a range of OA
journals.  Chemistry Central's portfolio of journals includes  titles such as the Chemistry Central Journal alongside specialist journals (e.g. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, Geochemical Transactions) that focus on particular disciplines. It has been developed by the same team that created biomedical OA publisher BioMed Central. Clicking on 'provisional PDF' gives the full text in PDF. Articles which are highly accessed are indicated next to the title.

Access to other OA chemistry resoures from chemistry central is also possible:

• ChemDB
• ChemRefer
• Chemical Entities of Biological Interest, ChEBI
• Chemists Without Borders
• eMolecules
• PubChem 

The Chemistry Central website currently features chemistry-related articles published in BioMed Central journals (i.e., another very good peer-reviewed OA site for the biology and medical research community). Chemistry Central can be accessed from the chemistry research guide under databases.

For help talk to the Chemistry Librarian:
Robert Tomaszewski
404-463-9933
rtomasze@gsu.edu

From the NLM Technical Bulletin:

"A Quick Tour demonstrating how to use My NCBI to set up e-mail alerts for articles from your favorite journals is now available from the PubMed Online Training page (click on the Tutorials link on the PubMed sidebar) and the Distance Education Program Resources page."

For help on setting up a MyNCBI account and other personalization services in PubMed such as saving searches, setting up RSS feeds of searches, and other alerts please contact Skye Hardesty (Biology) or Todd Prusin (Health Sciences).

To View a Spectrum:
Do a substance search and click on the microscope icon, . 
There, click on the link "Experimental Properties" to get into the spectra data. Other physical data such as melting point, boiling point, etc., can also be found with relevant references.

For help with SciFinder Scholar, talk to the Chemistry Librarian:
Robert Tomaszewski
404-463-9933
rtomasze@gsu.edu

Interface can now automatically search other databases e.g., Pubmed, Agricola, alongside Web of Knowledge results. Once you do a General Search, a link at the top of the search appears-called "View additional results,"  which upon clicking gives two files.

1.  ISI Web of Knowledge Results
2.  External Collection Results

The 'ISI Web of Knowledge Results' gives results from Current Contents Connect and Biological Abstracts.
The 'External Collection Results' gives the number of hits from other databases (vide infra).  When you click on this link, wait a few seconds! The number of results from each database will then appear.  You may then click on the results to view them.  NOTE, the time span for searching these databases is latest 5 years.

 External Collections Results = Agricola; AIAA Meeting Papers American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; All arXiv ePrint Archives; arXiv Computer Science; arXiv Mathematics; arXiv Nonlinear Sciences; arXiv Physics; arXiv Quantitative Biology; Civil Engineering Database; Education Resources Information Center; NASA Astrophysics Data System; NTIS Library Documents published since 1990; Popline Reproductive Health Literature; PubMed.

Note: OTHER RESOURCES are also available from the Web of Knowledge platform.  Among others, these include, BiologyBrowser, Index to Organism Names, Science Watch, and Special Topics.  The "Special Topics" option is of particular interest in that it provides citation analyses and commentary for selected scientific research areas of recent notable advances.  Faculty may find it of use as it provides citation rankings for scientists, institutions, nations, and journals (i.e., Top Papers, Top Authors, Top Institutions, Top Journals, etc.,). 

Click to get into ISI Web of Knowledge. 

Three new features have been added to PubMed :

• Last author has been added to the "Sort By" menu in the results list and to the Single Citation Matcher.
  
  
• Transliterated/vernacular title search added.
  
  
• New status tag for PubMed citations. The new status tag, [PubMed - author manuscript in PMC], involves those articles that are available in PubMed Central (PMC) but are not normally indexed by PubMed. These articles are retrievable by doing the following search "pubstatusnihms [sb]"