Monthly Archives: September 2012

SciFinder adds new features

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SciFinder’s latest update improves precision and evaluation of reaction answer sets and allows easier collaboration with other SciFinder users.

More Precise Reaction Answer Sets

  • A new default role (reactant) assigned to substances or fragments to the left of the reaction arrow improves the precision of reaction searches. (The former default role of reactant/reagent is still an option.)

Group Reaction Answers by Transformation

  • Evaluate synthesis options and preferred pathways quickly by grouping single-step reaction answers by transformation type
  • Classify answers in a way that is meaningful to synthetic chemists
  • Manage and evaluate large, comprehensive answer sets easily
  • Take advantage of hundreds of common transformation types

Property Search

  • Search substances by individual experimental or predicted property
  • Target substances with a particular property value or range of values in the CAS REGISTRYSM, which contains more than 66 million substances characterized by 3.6 billion experimental and predicted properties

Share SciPlanner™ Plans

  • Export a plan locally in the new SciPlanner exchange format (.pkx) and email or share the file with a colleague
  • Open shared plans using the new Import feature

For more information, go to SciFinder’s What’s New page.

Search for grants, fellowships, prizes using ProQuest's COS Funding Opportunities

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The COS Funding Opportunities database includes grants, fellowships, prizes, and other types of funding that are available to recipients anywhere in the world and working in any discipline. Opportunities are sponsored from both the public and private sectors, including local, state, and national governments; foundations and societies; and corporations.

Research funding may be tracked using “e-mail alerts” or RSS feeds or by saving them to “My Research”. Searches may be limited by topic, citizenship or degree requirements, sponsorship or funding type, and location. The “Help” feature details searching, session management, use of the “My Research” tool, and account creation.

COS Funding Opportunities may be found under “Quick Links” on the Library’s web site or with other grant information resources on the Grants Portal.  Please email Mary Ann Huslig or call 214.648.7687 for assistance.

Children's Book Drive supports pediatric literacy during medical visits

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The UT Southwestern Physician Assistant Program is holding a Children’s Book Drive to benefit Reach Out and Read, a non-profit organization that encourages literacy by providing books to at-risk pediatric populations ages five months to six years old during medical visits.

New or gently-used children’s books will be accepted until October 8, 2012, at designated drop-off boxes, which are located at:

  • Health Professions Building (V4.114)
  • North Campus Branch Library
  • South Campus (main) Library