Purdue Libraries News

Purdue Libraries will have reduced hours over the Thanksgiving holiday. All libraries are closing at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25 and will be closed Thursday-Friday November 26-27 for the University observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. A full listing of hours is available at http://www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/hours/2009/thanksgivinghours.html.

Purdue Libraries is hosting its third annual GIS Day event. Building on the response from last year’s event, it will not be held on the official GIS Day (Nov. 18), but rather on November 23 to avoid some other events that tend to conflict. All are welcome (both geo* types and curious public alike) and [...]

Practical Guide to Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
W. Roy Mason
John Wiley and Sons © 2007

“The book is a technical guide for chemists and spectroscopists, and presents a concise description of magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy and how it has advanced the interpretation of molecular electronic spectra.
* Provides a practical guide to utilizing MCD spectroscopy for chemists [...]

Polymer Processing: Modeling and Simulation
Tim Osswald and Juan P. Hernández-Ortiz
Hanser Publishers © 2006

“This book addresses traditional polymer processing as well as the emerging technologies associated with the plastics industry in the 21st Century, and combines engineering modeling aspects with computer simulation of realistic polymer processes. This book is designed to provide a polymer processing background [...]

Vibrationally Mediated Photodissociation
Salman Rosenwaks
RSC © 2009

“Vibrationally Mediated Photodissociation (VMP) deals with the influence of vibrational excitation of the ground electronic state of a molecule on its dissociation following excitation of this state to a higher electronic state. Aimed at students and academics, this is the first book devoted to the effect of vibrational pre-excitation on [...]

A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry: Physics, and Medicine
Francis Leroy, Ed.
Marcel Dekker © 2003

Nanoscale Phenomena: Fundamentals and Applications
Horst Hahn, Anatoli Sidorenko, and Ion Tiginyanu, Eds.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg © 2009

“The main intention of the editors of the book is the demonstration of the intrinsic correlation and mutual influence of three important components of nanoscience: new phenomena – nanomaterials – nanodevices. This is the organizing concept of the book. To [...]

Basic Chemometric Techniques in Atomic Spectroscopy
Jose M. Andrade-Garda, Ed.
RSC © 2009

“This is the first book for atomic spectroscopists to present the basic principles of experimental designs, optimization and multivariate regression.
This practical introduction uses conceptual explanations and worked examples to give readers a clear understanding of the technique. Mathematics is kept to a minimum but, when [...]

The latest version of ChemBioDraw, v12, is now available for download.  All Purdue-affiliated students, staff and faculty can download their own copy of ChemBioDraw for installation via  a site license funded by the Purdue Libraries.  This structure drawing suite allows the user to draw accurate, chemically-aware structures for use in database queries, preparation of publication-quality [...]

The Chemistry Library is conducting a 30-day trial (ends Oct. 11, 2009) to two ebook collections from CRC Press and Taylor & Francis. [Currently you must be on-campus to access these resources.]

MaterialsNetBASE – Contains nearly 350 ebooks.  From ceramics and textiles to bioscience and pharmacology, this dynamic online library of handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias,and treatises explains [...]