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April 13, 2009
Issue No. 80

Table of Contents

• Library Resources
  • Try SearchWorks
    
  • Open Access-Law Journals
    
  • Magazines in Google Books
    
  • New Business Datasets
    
  • Preserving Digital Content
    
  • Print Springer EBooks
    
  • Visual History Archive
    
  • Research Resources for All
    
  • Tel Aviv Collection
    
  • Life Magazine Photo Archive
    
  • The MJF Collection Digitized
    
  • DEWI-Social Science Data
    
  • HighWire Press-New Journals
    
  • LaneConnex Gets Impact Factors
    
  • WebCSD Now Available
    

SearchWorks is the Stanford Libraries' prototype of a new, next-generation information discovery environment, a place that offers new ways to find and access all of Stanford Libraries' holdings and licensed content. SearchWorks complements Socrates, which continues to serve as the Libraries' online catalog. Give SearchWorks a try at:

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/

New Features

SearchWorks' major new features include:

• A simple, intuitive interface, including faceted browsing, which allows users to refine results sets by filtering for online resources, location, author, subject, and more.
• Relevance ranked search results (a useful alternative to Socrates, which lists results in LIFO--last in, first out--order).
• An embedded book viewer from Google, allowing you to view the Google scanned copy without leaving SearchWorks. For example, read a work about Lincoln from a contemporary or preview a book about our new president. Look for the "Full Text " or "Preview" tabs.
• The ability to export citations via copy/paste, RSS feeds, Zotero, RefWorks, EndNote or even SMS to your mobile phone.

SearchWorks record for book about Abraham Lincoln by a contemporary.

Usage Statistics

SearchWorks was first deployed in October, and usage has spread largely through word of mouth. For Fall Quarter, there were about 30 visitors per day on average. In the new year, usage took a dramatic upturn, with an average of more than 100 visitors per day for January.

User Feedback

We have received a substantial amount of user feedback. Overall, the reaction has been very positive. Patrons have written to say:

. "Had I known how good [it] would be I would have used it earlier!"

. This is "the search engine we wish we had in grad school."

. "The "cite this" feature is awesome. Having this will make life a lot easier."

Patrons have also made a wealth of suggestions for enhancements. This is critical, as the SearchWorks team is prioritizing feature enhancements based on direct user feedback. Highest on the priority list are adding in sort by publication date, better browsing (by call number, title, author), advanced searching, and better support for non-Roman scripts.

For More Information

Work continues to enhance and extend SearchWorks. Let us know how you like it or get more information about it by clicking on the Feedback button on the SearchWorks home page or by sending email to searchworks-feedback@lists.stanford.edu.

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In November, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the so-called Gang of 10 law library directors (directors from some of the nation's top law schools) held at Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina. One of the activities of this meeting was the drafting and signing of the "Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship," which calls for all law schools to stop publishing their law journals in print format and to rely instead upon electronic publication, coupled with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in stable, open, digital formats.

The authors of the Durham Statement. Top row, left to right: Dick Danner (Duke),
Radu Popa (NYU), John Palfrey (Harvard), Claire Germain (Cornell),
Paul George (University of Pennsylvania), Jim McMasters (Northwestern),
Blair Kauffman (Yale). Bottow row: Paul Lomio (Stanford),
Judith Wright (University of Chicago), Terry Martin (University of Texas).

Why Open Access?

Each of the nation's 200+ law schools produce at least one student-edited law journal, containing scholarship and important policy pieces from law professors, judges, distinguished practitioners, and students. The bulk of legal scholarship is published in such law journals. Here at Stanford Law School we produce nine such journals. Right now the only way to access all of this significant content electronically is through expensive databases such as HeinOnline, LexisNexis and Westlaw.

It would be a better legal information world if researchers could reliably turn to the host law school for any law journal from that school and find all of its articles, available for free in open and stable electronic formats.

Open Access Leaders

It was especially fitting that this inspirational document was drafted and signed by us while at Duke. Duke is a leader in the open online repository movement, with the Duke Law Faculty Scholarship Repository created in 2005, and all Duke law journals made accessible online since 1997. The Duke Law Faculty Scholarship Repository is a full-text electronic archive of scholarly works written by the Duke Law faculty, as well as other scholarship produced at the law school. A scholarship repository and open access law journals go hand-in-hand.

The chief architect of the Durham Statement was John Palfrey, the new library director at Harvard Law School, who is also a leader and visionary in the open access movement. In May 2008, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted to make each faculty member's scholarly articles available online for free.

What's Next?

The Durham Statement is our exercise in aspiration, with the hopes of getting more - eventually all - law schools on the open access bandwagon.

There are issues yet to be resolved. For one thing, especially during these difficult economic times, financial analysis is needed. Law schools receive royalties from the online databases that provide law journal access - some schools far more than others - so the cost-savings to the schools from ceasing print and to the schools' libraries from no longer having to buy, bind and shelve issues needs to be carefully weighed against any potential loss of revenue income. And there are additionally important archival and standards issues to be debated and decided.

The Durham Statement seeks to move the analysis, debate, and discussion forward.

For More Information

Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship
http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/02/20/durham-statement-on-open-access-to-legal-scholarship/ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/durhamstatement

The Duke Law Faculty Scholarship Repository

Harvard Law School open access motion

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Google Books now includes the content of many popular magazines, including archives of Baseball Digest (1945-2007), Vegetarian Times (1981-2004), New York Magazine (1968-1997), Ebony (1960-2008), Popular Science (1872-2008) and many others.

Some sample magazine content from Google Books:

• 1981 Baseball Digest cover story on recent Hall of Fame inductee Rickey Henderson
• 1974 New York Magazine cover story on The Home Office
• July 1966 issue of Ebony, with article on rising female civil rights lawyer Marian Wright.

The Stanford Libraries' E-Journals page provides access to thousands more online magazines, newspapers, and journals. Use the E-Journals page to look up your favorite magazine.

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The Jackson Library at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) recently acquired campus-wide access to the following databases: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, Thomson One Banker, Thomson Research, Thomson Investext, and Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). These resources were previously available only to library users via GSB network. The expanded access will facilitate business-related research activities for all at Stanford. Here are brief descriptions of these databases.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage provides information on companies, industries, mutual funds, and bonds, as well as popular S&P publications in full-text. The "Companies" section covers both public and private companies, and includes company profile, stocks & bond reports, and more. It also provides links to The Outlook (May 22, 1996~) and CreditWeek (January 4, 2006~). The "Industries" section includes S&P Industry Surveys (U.S. and Global; coverage varies depending on the industry), describing trends, forecasts, key players, market share, ratios, and other statistics. This section also provides access to Sub-Industry Reviews and Trends & Projections (April 1999~). The "Funds" section includes fund research and screening tools as well as fund commentary. The "Directories" includes search tools for Security Dealers of North America. The home page provides news from each section as well as links to popular S&P publications.

Thomson

Three popular Thomson databases are now accessible via SU IP ranges: Thomson One Banker, Thomson Research, and Thomson Investext. Thomson One Banker provides company financials, earnings estimates, market data and stock quotes, mergers and acquisitions data, private equity firm data, etc. The database includes some data from single-user Thomson databases such as SDC Platinum, Datastream, and VentureXpert Web, which are available in the Jackson Library. Thomson Research includes mainly SEC filings and historical financial reports. Thomson Investext provides analyst reports from investment banks and consulting firms, and is linked from Thomson One Banker and Thomson Research. Thomson databases work via Internet Explorer only.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

WRDS is an economic and financial data management system, supported by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The current Jackson Library subscription includes over 30 databases. Popular WRDS databases include COMPUSTAT, CRSP, TAQ, and OptionMetrics. COMPUSTAT provides income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, etc., and covers active and inactive publicly-held companies. Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) database provides security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. Trade and Quote (TAQ) database contains intraday transactions data for securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX), Nasdaq National Market System (NMS), and SmallCap issues. OptionMetrics provides historical price and implied volatility data for the U.S. equity and index options markets. To access WRDS databases, Stanford faculty and PhD students can obtain individual logins via the WRDS public Web site or access them via the library's WRDS database link. Other Stanford students and staff can use them via the library's WRDS database link.

Access to These Databases

These databases are generally available to Stanford students, faculty, and staff via the Jackson Library's Database A-Z Web site and also via the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources' Databases Web site. Questions and comments are welcome at the Jackson Library InfoDesk, jackson-infodesk@gsb.stanford.edu.

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Support for the community-governed archive cooperative, CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), continues to grow as they announce the addition of the University of Alberta as its newest governing library member. The University of Alberta Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and has the second largest academic and research collection in Canada.

"We are proud to welcome the University of Alberta as our first Canadian partner," says Gordon Tibbitts, CEO of bepress and Co-Chair of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors. "Adding another global partner to the network further solidifies CLOCKSS leadership in providing a cost-sensitive and effective long-term archiving solution that services the entire scholarly community."

Based at Stanford University, the not-for-profit organization is a partnership of libraries and publishers. As a governing library, the University of Alberta Libraries will operate one of the computer "CLOCKSS boxes" housed at (ultimately) 15 sites around the globe containing content contributed by publishers. This content is stored and preserved, ensuring that it is available for future use. "The University of Alberta Libraries consider CLOCKSS essential for ensuring access to the knowledge we create today far into the future," stated Ernie Ingles, Chief Librarian and Vice Provost at the University of Alberta, "We feel that membership in this organization is a contribution to future generations."

CLOCKSS uses LOCKSS low cost archiving software to operate its archive, making participation in the collective affordable for libraries of all sizes. LOCKSS, an ACM award winning digital preservation technology, preserves all formats and genres of Web-published content including the look and feel of the original. LOCKSS is evolving open source software, which means there is less chance that the format of the stored content will become outdated and useless. When digital content becomes unavailable, for instance if a publisher chooses to retire a journal, then that "trigger event" allows content stored in the archive to be released to designated delivery platforms or hosts, ensuring unrestricted access to research literature that might otherwise have been lost. Prior to a trigger event the content is "dark" or hidden and is not available to anyone.

Content that has been made available through CLOCKSS can be freely accessed on the CLOCKSS Web site.

CLOCKSS is a joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. Its mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. Governing Libraries include the Australian National University, Indiana University, New York Public Library, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Rice University, Stanford University, the University of Alberta, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hong Kong and the University of Virginia. Governing Publishers include the American Medical Association, the American Physiological Society, bepress, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley-Blackwell.

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The eBook division of Springer publishing and the Stanford Libraries are testing a new service for print on demand copies of eBooks. The service is called MyCopy and it is an extension of Springer's eBook platform.

Over 11,500 titles are available in MyCopy format exclusively through SpringerLink. The Stanford Libraries are one of 30 pilot programs for this service. Your comments and feedback are appreciated.

Books available with the MyCopy service have this link on the description page of the book:

Some sample titles include:

• Advanced Batteries: Materials Science Aspects
• Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents: A New Dilemma for the 21st Century
• The Physics of Semiconductors: An Introduction Including Devices and Nanophysics
• Ocean Wave Energy: Current Status and Future Prespectives

MyCopy softcover books sell for $24.95 each (including shipping and handling). English language titles (including monographs, textbooks, reference works, and handbooks) with a copyright year of 2005 or later (832 pages or less) are currently available.

Springer manages the order processing, production, and delivery. Orders are paid by credit card. Books are sent directly to the patron, not to the library. It takes 7-10 days for the book to arrive. MyCopy books will only be delivered to addresses that are located in the same country as the sponsoring institution. Up to 5 copies of the same book title can be purchased at a time.

The Stanford Libraries are offering this as an additional service from Springer and we do not generate any income from the book sales.

Information for Springer authors on the service is provided here.

Springer is the world's second-largest publisher of journals in the STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) sector, the largest publisher of STM books, and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German-language area. For more information, link to Springer's Web site.

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The USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive is now available to the Stanford community. Established in 1994 to preserve the testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, the Institute maintains one of the largest video digital libraries in the world: nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and from 56 countries. The Institute is part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California. Its mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry -- and the suffering they cause -- through the educational use of the Institute's visual history testimonies.

The Institute works with partners around the world to advance scholarship and research, to provide resources and online tools for educators, and to disseminate the testimonies in its archive for educational purposes. In addition to preserving the testimonies, the Institute helps document the stories of survivors and other witnesses of other genocides. Currently, the Institute is working with the Rwandan organization IBUKA to begin a project to collect testimony from survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that claimed as many as one million lives. Once collected and indexed, the testimony will be incorporated into the Visual History Archive.

Each video testimony in the Archive is indexed in extraordinary detail. Because of this, the Archive in its entirety requires an enormous amount of storage space on its home servers at USC and only a limited number of testimonies can be cached here at Stanford. Those that are cached locally are readily accessible; for other testimonies there may be a longer waiting period.

How to Access the Archive

The Visual History Archive is likely to be of particular interest to Stanford students and faculty across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The Archive is available to the Stanford community at http://vha.usc.edu/. In addition, a link can always be found in the Stanford Libraries' Databases list or in the Libraries' catalog (under the heading "visual history archive"). A Stanford Libraries' Humanities Digital Information Service Web page provides more details about technical requirements and answers to questions about using the Archive.

Technical Specifications

Users of the Archive need to be aware of the following technical specifications:

• It was originally developed for the Microsoft Internet Explorer platform and is accessible only via the IE (6.0 or higher) Web browser. Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other browsers are not supported.
• The Archive requires version 7 or higher of the Windows Media Player.
• When using the Archive, make sure that the following setting is activated: View->Encoding->Autoselect is off and Unicode (UTF-8) is on.

For More Information

For technical assistance, contact Hannah Frost (hfrost@stanford.edu).

For questions concerning the contents and use of the Archive, contact Zachary Baker (zbaker@stanford.edu) or Glen Worthey (gworthey@stanford.edu).

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Although many of Stanford's online resources are restricted to current Stanford faculty, staff and students, there are many excellent research resources available to the general public:

• Socrates is a publicly available catalog of Stanford Library holdings.
• SearchWorks is a new, experimental version of our catalog that is open to the public.
• HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with 1,825,108 articles available without subscription.

• WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
• SF Public Library E-Cards allow California residents free access to many databases and e-books.
• City of Palo Alto Library has resources (including electronic databases) available to cardholders (CA residence required).
• Librarian's Internet Index contains over 20,000 entries, maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.

Note: Stanford alumni should refer to the SULAIR Information Center's Q&A: Alumni access to library databases.

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This year marks the centennial of the city of Tel Aviv. In the spring of 1909, when Palestine was still under Ottoman rule, sixty-six Jewish families purchased lots in Karm al-Jabali, next to the ancient port city of Jaffa. There they built the first houses in the "garden suburb" of Ahuzat Bayit (Homestead), soon to be renamed Tel Aviv, a city that today is the hub of a metropolitan region with three million inhabitants.

At the end of 2005, the Stanford University Libraries acquired a rich collection of books, pamphlets, magazines, printed ephemera, posters, postcards, photographs, maps, architectural plans, and original documents about the early history of "The First Hebrew City." It was assembled over a span of forty years by Eliasaf Robinson, a Tel Aviv native and Israel's most prominent antiquarian bookseller. The Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv - as it is now known - comprises approximately five hundred printed volumes (books and periodicals) and twenty linear feet of archival materials. It is already among the most sought-after resources in the Stanford University Libraries.

View of Herzl Street, leading into
the Herzliah Gymnasium.
Undated, 1920s or 1930s.

Eliasaf Robinson was impressed with Stanford's ability to digitize its library holdings and make them accessible over the Web - and that was a major reason behind his decision to offer his collection to this institution. And indeed, over the past eighteen months much of the collection has been scanned. The digitized collection now includes over one thousand photographs and postcards, three hundred printed volumes, two hundred large format materials (posters, maps and sewer diagrams) and six linear feet of archival materials.

Now the moment has arrived to make it accessible to the research community at Stanford and beyond. On April 23, 2009, Stanford's Tel Aviv Web site will be officially launched, in conjunction with the opening of an exhibit, in Green Library's Peterson Gallery, of materials from the Eliasaf Robinson Collection. The Web site provides a distillation of the physical exhibit, and also serves as an online portal to the collection as a whole.

"Hebrew labor": a paving crew on
Herzl Street, 1930s.

The Tel Aviv Web site marks the following "firsts" for SULAIR's Digital Library Systems and Services:

• It is the first collection of works in the Hebrew alphabet to be digitized at Stanford.
• It is one of the first collections of twentieth-century archival files in Hebrew to be digitized anywhere.
• It is the first time that such a heterogeneous body of materials is being made available at Stanford from a single launching page.

We invite you to visit the Tel Aviv Web site when it is launched on April 23, 2009:

http://collections.stanford.edu/telaviv/

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Life Magazine and Google have posted millions of photographs, mostly unpublished, from the LIFE photo archive, covering 1750s to today.

You can search this collection by keyword or browse by decade (1860s to 1970s).

Stanford has a great run of this title, as indicated in the list of available issues in Socrates.

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The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection is one of the most significant collections in the Archive of Recorded Sound, and as a result of a project to digitally preserve these performances, a new Web site offers detailed information on all of its recordings dating back to the first festival in 1958.

The site can be used to explore the multiplicity of jazz performers and jazz styles that make up the collection's recordings, including Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Elvin Jones, B.B. King, Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey, Count Basie, Herbie Hancock, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Woody Herman, Gerry Mulligan, and Thelonious Monk, and many more considered today to be jazz legends. The database documents nearly 9,000 jazz pieces and interviews representing over 1,000 hours of audio and video content.

The Collection Highlights section on the site is a good place to begin to explore the collection. Different aspects of the festival are presented, including significant historical performances, interviews with performers, music specifically commissioned for the festival, and the Blues in the Afternoon programs. Each of the categories offers excerpts of recordings from the collection that gives an idea of the breadth of material available.

After an introduction to the collection, you can search the database using a standard keyword search to look up any performer, band, or title in the collection. You can search for different genres of jazz and blues music or look for the concerts performed on a specific date. Any search can be limited further by using the Web site's faceted browsing feature to locate exactly the item that is needed.

The database can also be browsed by comprehensive alphabetical lists of titles, performers, and bands to explore and discover different kinds of jazz music. By establishing an account on the collection Web site, it is possible to create a list of "favorites," the titles of any pieces or events uncovered in a search that are of ongoing interest or relevance. On return visits to the Web site, the list of favorites can easily be retrieved (and edited, expanded, etc.) by logging in.

Once you have located recordings of interest, you can listen to or view them by coming to the Archive of Recorded Sound during its public hours, Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m., or by making an appointment with the archive staff by e-mail (soundarchive@stanford.edu) or phone (650-723-3912).

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The 2006 General Social Survey (GSS) cumulative file is now available in DEWI (Data Extraction Web Interface). Established in 1972, the GSS is one of the longest running surveys capturing snapshots of the changing cultural, social, and political attitudes in the United States.

To access the GSS in DEWI, go to http://dewi.stanford.edu/, then click on "General Social Surveys, 1972-2006."

Within DEWI, you can browse or search for variables, then select, extract and download your data files for analysis in the most popular statistical applications. DEWI also provides links to useful Web sites, online codebooks, and technical documentation for each dataset. In addition to a "Using DEWI" help document, a selection of getting started guides for popular quantitative (statistical), qualitative and data conversion software at Stanford is available via the Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) Web site.

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HighWire Press, the online publishing division of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), produces indexed, full-text versions of scientific, technical and medical journals. A list of currently available journals can be found at HighWire's Web site.

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

The following list* includes journals that were recently added, or will soon be added:

American Journal of Agricultural Economics - 1 Jun 2009

Anticancer Research - 22 Apr 2009

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy - 1 Jun 2009

Cancer Genomics & Proteomics - 22 Apr 2009

Classical Receptions Journal - 30 Apr 2009

Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation - 31 Mar 2009

Genome Biology and Evolution - 15 Apr 2009

ICU Director - 1 Aug 2009

In Vivo - 22 Apr 2009

Journal of Church and State - 1 Jun 2009

Journal of Human Rights Practice - 31 Mar 2009

Journal of International Dispute Settlement - 31 Jan 2010

Journal of Molecular Cell Biology - 31 Oct 2009

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - 30 Jul 2009

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development - 5 May 2009

Music and Medicine - 3 Jun 2009

Novel: A Forum on Fiction - 15 Apr 2009

Parenteral Drug Association Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology - 22 Jul 2009

SAE International Journal of Aerospace - 10 Apr 2009

SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles - 10 Apr 2009

SAE International Journal of Engines - 10 Apr 2009

SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants - 10 Apr 2009

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing - 10 Apr 2009

SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Electronic and Electrical Systems - 10 Apr 2009

SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems - 10 Apr 2009

Sociology of Religion - 26 Mar 2009

Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology - 1 Jun 2009

Therapeutic Advances in Urology - 15 Apr 2009

Writing Systems Research - 1 May 2009

*Dates are subject to change.

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One measure of the importance or impact of various journals is the Thomson Scientific Impact Factor, developed by Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Information Science. Thomson Scientific began to publish impact factors in Journal Citation Reports® (JCR®) in 1975. The Impact Factor is calculated for science and social science journals, based on the average number of times articles in each journal are cited within a two-year period. This number has some limitations, and should be viewed as part of a trend over several years, and/or in the context of a subject area. Also, note that it applies only to the journals indexed by Science Citation Index® and Social Science Citation Index®.

Looking at a journal in the context of an entire field will determine whether an impact factor is high or low. For example, the highest impact factor in psychiatry is 15.976, for Archives of General Psychiatry. Web of Science indexes 94 titles in this field, and the lowest impact factor is 0.061. In oceanography, the highest impact factor is 3.615, for Oceanography and Marine Biology, and the lowest impact factor is 0.070, so the range for the fifty titles included in this category is quite small. The significance of impact factors is such that two journals with an impact factor of 3 could be highly rated (oceanography) or in the bottom half of a group (psychiatry).

LaneConnex and the Lane Catalog now include links to the Thomson Scientific Impact Factor Trend Graphs for approximately 3900 titles. By searching for a journal title in Lane's catalog or LaneConnex, or by finding the title on Lane's eJournals page, you can follow the Impact Factor link to the Trend Graph. This shows the current Impact Factor, the trend over the last 5 years, and the calculations. The example below shows an entry on Lane's eJournals page and the linked impact factor trend graph.

Impact Factor Graph for American Journal of Cardiology

American Journal of Cardiology

• v. 1-, 1958- ScienceDirect
• v. 87-, 2001- MD Consult
• Impact Factor

To view the title within its field, click on the Return to Journal button. Next, click on View Journal Summary List to see all the journals in the category with their respective article and citation data. Additional measures available are: the Immediacy index, Cited Half-life, Eigenfactor Score, and Article Influence Score. All these metrics can provide information about the importance or impact of a particular journal.

To find impact factors for journals not listed on LaneConnex, go to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database on Lane's databases list or on the SULAIR Databases and Articles page.

For further information about Impact Factors and their uses, visit the Web of Science site.

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WebCSD, the new online portal to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), is now available to Stanford students, faculty, and staff. Still a beta product, it enables users to access the CSD anywhere, any time, without installing any software. It has an intuitive interface for searching. New structures are added to CSD weekly for up-to-date searches.

WebCSD Features

Features of WebCSD include:

• Substructure searching,
• Similarity searching (only available in WebCSD),
• Text/numeric searching (journal reference, compound name, all text),
• Reduced cell searching,
• Database browsing,
• Single pane results window,
• Easy structure and result export features, and
• Customizable 3D display using embedded AstexViewer(tm) applet - no local software installation required. External viewers also supported.

About Content in CSD

The CSD contains bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds whose 3D structures have been determined using X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction. Records results of single crystal studies and powder diffraction studies which yield 3D atomic coordinate data for at least all non-H atoms. In some cases the CCDC is unable to obtain coordinates and incomplete entries are archived to the CSD. Also includes crystal structure data arising from publications in the open literature and private communications to the CSD (via direct data deposition).

About Software in the CSD System

The software version of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is distributed as part of the CSD System which includes software for search and information retrieval (ConQuest), structure visualisation (Mercury), numerical analysis (Vista), and database creation (PreQuest). The CSD System also incorporates IsoStar, a knowledge base of intermolecular interactions, containing data derived from both the CSD and the PDB.

Downloading/Installing Software at Stanford for using CSD and SuperStar

Mac and PC versions are available for downloading from a server, please see:

http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/collections/software/index.html

All versions of CSD (Mac, PC, Unix) are available for installation using CD-ROMs that are on reserve at the Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library. Please ask at Swain's Circulation desk to borrow them for two hours. SuperStar (PC only) is only available by downloading. For more info about CSD and SuperStar, please see the product information flyers listed below.

For More Information

About WebCSD

WebCSD FAQs (Includes details about Similarity Searching)

Feedback Form

Product Information Flyers

About CSD System (PDF)
The World's Repository of Small-Molecule Crystal Structures

About the Materials Module in Mercury CSD (PDF)
Find, Identify and Analyze Crystal Packing Motifs

About SuperStar (PDF)
Predicting Intermolecular Interactions

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