With each academic school now having its own blog (InfoSci has acted as a College blog), there will be separate blogs for SST and ARES in the future.

The future blog for SST will be SST Library Updates@NTU (URL: http://sstlibraryupdatesntu.wordpress.com/)

The future blog for ARES will be http://areslibraryupdatesntu.wordpress.com/.

Thanks for reading this information, and we look forward to providing a School-specific service in the future.

Regards,

Jon and Heather.

To mark the awarding of Nobel Prize for Physics and Medicine, free associated resources (lectures, articles and papers) are available via www.physica.org and http://www.reproduction-online.org/misc/Nobel_prize_2010.shtml. Each has a limited release, so the sites should be checked for more information.

Other resources may well be available, and I shall post these as I find them.

Regards,

Jon

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) would like to announce our migration plans for the new RSC Publishing platform and how this will affect our customers.  http://pubs.rsc.org/

After successfully launching the RSC Publishing ‘beta’ platform, which gave students, researchers, scientists, librarians and information specialists access to the platform in test stage, we have been continually developing the platform for release.  Thank you to those of you that have fed back during this process, your input has been very valuable to us and we will continue to keep our Librarian Testers involved in future developments.

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Launch of the new RSC Publishing platform

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Timelines

*July 27th 2010** – RSC Publishing platform will be launched
* All dynamic links to content will be set to resolve to the new platform
* The RSC Publishing platform and the old website will run in parallel alongside each other to give our customers time to highlight any broken links and amend as necessary – please read the legacy URL column and short cut URL column notes
GO TO www.rsc.org/urls
* Where possible, website redirects will be put in place to reduce errors for customers
* We will remove access to content via the old website once there are minimal redirects measured. We anticipate this to be in several months
* Our COUNTER statistics customers will access statistics through the Librarians’ Portal once we close off access to the old site
* All our customers to set up an individual Librarians’ Portal account on new platform before old website access closed
GO TO http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Librarian

**Please note that timescales are approximate and may be subject to change

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Customer Support

* Training – we will be organising webcasts throughout July to October
* Communications – we will continue to keep our customers up-to-date with migration, training and planned maintenance through the Librarians’ Portal news and to registered email addresses
* For all customer queries
EMAIL sales@rsc.org quoting P1007b

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Technical Support

* Migration guidelines – we are currently producing migration guidelines to help our customers to transition over to the new RSC Publishing platform, these will be available shortly
* We will be using Xlink to redirect all our links – please ensure you check any direct URLs do not have the format rsc.org/publishing… as these will become broken and will need to be changed
* For a full list or URLs (please read the legacy URL column and short cut URL column notes)
GO TO www.rsc.org/urls
* For all technical queries
EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org quoting P1007b

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Each year in the Colors of Chemistry calendar, CAS attempts to answer intriguing scientific questions with information from the CAS databases. This year, we answered questions on topics ranging from environmentally friendly fireworks to glowing fuel rods in nuclear reactors; from promising anti-cancer agents in redwood trees to distinct forms of iron oxide on the surface of Mars.

Reflecting our ongoing efforts to be more environmentally responsible, the 2010 Colors of Chemistry calendar is now available in new digital formats. Download the entire 2010 calendar as a high-resolution PDF or access the new interactive web calendar. Images from the 2010 Colors of Chemistry calendar are also available as wallpaper for your desktop and in a screen saver application.

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For those interested in the assessement of ‘impact’ in the REF, the following commentary might prove of interest:

http://www.rin.ac.uk/blogs/guest/leila-sattary/impact-here-stay

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