Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

December 15th, 2009

Assigning Structures to Ions in Mass Spectrometry John L. Holmes, Christiane Aubry,  and Paul M. Mayer CRC Press © 2006 “Summarizing our present knowledge of the structures and chemistry of small organic cations in the gas phase, Assigning Structures to Ions in Mass Spectrometry presents the methods necessary for determining gas-phase ion structures. It is a comprehensive resource more…

December 10th, 2009

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has reached the 500,000th crystal structure landmark.  Read the press release and connect to the web version of the CSD at: http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/500000.php

December 9th, 2009

The Libraries catalog search engine now has two options for searching  — “Search Classic” or “Search Beta.” The beta version of the catalog search, made available to the public last week, offers faceted searching, or options for users to narrow their searches by format, author, or even library, among other categories. This brings the catalog more…

December 8th, 2009

Metallic and Molecular Interactions in Nanometer Layers, Pores and Particles: New Findings at the Yoctolitre Level Jurgen-Hinrich Fuhrhop and Tianyu Wang RSC © 2009 “Nanochemistry offers the unique chance to work with almost all the elements of the periodic system to try to solve problems with new materials in architecture, medicine and electronics. This book more…

November 24th, 2009

Rheology of Particulate Dispersions and Composites Rajinder Pal CRC Press © 2006 Rheology of Particulate Dispersions and Composites provides comprehensive coverage of fundamental principles and equations that govern the rheology for particulate dispersions and two-phase solid composites. The rheological properties of suspensions, emulsions, bubbly liquids (foams) and other dispersions appear alongside those of solid composite more…

November 18th, 2009

Specialty Chemicals – Source Book (4th Edition) Michael Ash and Irene Ash Synapse Information Resources, Inc. © 2009 “This book has been extensively revised and expanded and now contains approximately 18,000 monographs on this group of chemicals with 70,000 cross-referenced chemical synonyms, and more than 60,000 trade name equivalents.  This reference contains integrated information on more…

November 16th, 2009

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL).  These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: LexisNexis Statistical, from LexisNexis, Inc. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list more…

November 16th, 2009

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL).  These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: LexisNexis Statistical, from LexisNexis, Inc. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list more…

November 10th, 2009

Practical Statistics for the Analytical Scientist: A Bench Guide, 2nd ed. SLR Ellison, VJ Barwick, and TJD Farrant RSC © 2009 The application of statistics is central to the assessment of data quality and an understanding of statistics is essential for the interpretation of analytical results. ‘Practical Statistics for the Analytical Scientist, A Bench Guide’ more…

November 6th, 2009

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL).  These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: LexisNexis Company Dossier, from LexisNexis, Inc. Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha more…