Library Services - Supporting Scientific Research is Our Mission!
Do You Know What the Scientific Library Can Do For YOU?
At the Scientific Library, our staff are available to assist with many phases of your research.
We offer services to provide you with literature searches, assistance with author identifiers, including ORCiD, and can prepare reports on research impacts that are customized for you!
Upon request, our Current Awareness Services, such as Daily Science News articles and topical alerts, are sent directly to your Outlook Inbox.
Are you looking to brush up on your EndNote skills or learn something new? The Scientific Library offers FREE training classes! Our classes are instructor led and are on a wide variety for information resource topics. If you miss a class offering, at the convenience of your schedule, visit our Streams page to access a list of recorded sessions. We also offer one-on-one training sessions by request.
Our circulation and resource services are top notch! Electronic access to our collection and materials is always 24/7. The Interlibrary Loan specialists assists with borrowing books and fulfilling article requests from outside Libraries.
In the Scientific Library, we offer four quiet study rooms and a larger space for collaboration. These rooms may be reserved by accessing the AgilQuest reservation system, by contacting the Conference Center or requesting a room at the Scientific Library Reference Desk.
Study carrels are situated all around the Library and do not require a reservation. These areas offer quiet, bright, and naturally lighted spaces which are very conducive for a healthy work environment.
In our Computer Resources Area, computers are available on a first come basis, with free printing, and fax services.
The Scientific Library staff are eager to lend a helping hand. Our Library hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30am – 4pm. Give us a call or send us an email today! We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Library Instruction
LIBRARY ORIENTATIONS
Library Orientation sessions are held monthly via Webex on Thursdays from 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. The dates of upcoming sessions are May 11 and June 15. We invite all employees to attend these sessions to learn about the many services and resources offered by the Library. Registration is not required.
If you are not able to make it to our scheduled webinars, our librarians can work with your schedule to provide one-on-one training at your convenience via Webex or Microsoft Teams. For questions, or if you have a suggestion for a class offering, please contact us with your thoughts.
NOTE: All Library Instruction during Spring 2023 will be given via Webex webinars.
RESOURCE TRAINING
The Library’s instruction team is pleased to announce that the Spring 2023 Resource Training Schedule is available on the Library’s Orientations and Classes website. Class dates and descriptions are also listed on the Events Calendar. Registration announcements & WebEx meeting links will be sent on the NCIF community listservs.
METADRUG
Tuesday, May 16, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
CLINICALTRIALS.GOV: SEARCHING FOR CLINICAL STUDIES
Thursday, May 25, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Featured Website
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is a High Value, yet Free health information resource provided by the National Library of Medicine to meet the needs of healthcare consumers. MedlinePlus is very easy to search. Just put in the name of a disease or drug of interest and click through the relevant results. While digesting the wealth of highly accurate health, genetics, medical test, and pharmaceutical information provided by MedlinePlus, you may want to check out some or their recipes for healthier and delicious dishes as well.
RESOURCE OF THE MONTH
Each month the Library will feature a different resource and offer to provide more supporting information about this resource. Watch for announcements about the resources highlighted in 2023 or e-mail the Library for more information:
APRIL – IEEE XPLORE
The IEEE Xplore Digital Library is a powerful resource for discovery of and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. The database provides web access to more than four-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in biomedical engineering, data analysis, biomedical imaging, medical devices, health informatics, and more.
MAY – METADRUG
MetaDrug is a manually curated knowledge database and software suite that can help you predict possible Indications, Modes of Action, ADME, Phase I and Phase II metabolites, and Toxicities of novel compounds. It also allows you to view the predicted activities on pathway maps that can be validated by uploading experimental data for the compounds, once available. This workshop will be accompanied by a vendor-led webinar on Tuesday, May 16, where you will learn to search by disease, pathway, compound and more, and to make predictions for the activities of novel compounds.
JUNE – BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER
Business Source Premier is the business industry’s most used research database providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals. This research database also contains libraries which house economic reports, company profiles, industry reports, and videos from business publications in areas such as marketing, management, accounting, and finance.
New Items at the Library
Ancistrocladus Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids
Springer Nature, AG, Switzerland, 2023.
Description: This book describes a unique class of secondary metabolites, the mono- and dimeric-naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids. They exclusively occur in lianas of the palaeotropical Ancistrocladaceae and Dioncophyllaceae plant families. Their unprecedented structures include stereogenic centers and rotationally hindered, and therefore stereogenic, axes. Extended recent investigations on six Ancistrocladus species from Asia, as reported in this contribution, shed light on their fascinating phytochemical productivity, with over 100 intriguing natural products. This high chemodiversity arises from a similarly unique biosynthesis from acetate-malonate units, following a novel polyketidic pathway to plant-derived isoquinoline alkaloids. Some of the compounds show most promising anti-parasitic activities. Additionally, strategies for the regio- and stereoselective total synthesis of the alkaloids, including the directed construction of the chiral axis, are also presented.
Bioprocessing in Viral Vaccines
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 2022.
Description: This book introduces the basic principles of vaccination and the manufacturing of viral vaccines. Bioprocessing of Viral Vaccines will provide an overview of the advanced strategies needed to respond to the challenges of new and established viral infection diseases. The first few chapters cover the basics of virology and immunology as essential concepts to understand the function and design of viral vaccines. The core of the content is dedicated to process development, including upstream processing and cell culture of viral vaccines, downstream processing, and extensive analytical technologies specific to viral vaccines.
Conquest of Invisible Enemies: A Human History of Antiviral Drugs
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2022.
Description: Conquest of Invisible Enemies: A Human History of Antiviral Drugs guides readers through the history of viruses, vaccinations, and treatments. Readers learn about the discovery of viruses and diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). Conquest of Invisible Enemies: A Human History of Antiviral Drugs focuses on the human drama behind drug discovery. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this timely book dispels common misconceptions about viruses and treatments and places the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.
How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2022.
Description: This book is a guide specifically for Early Career Researchers on how to publish in the Biological Sciences, whether that be your first manuscript or if you’re already experienced – there’s something for everyone here. It will guide you through taking your manuscript to publication in peer-reviewed journals and disseminating your research more broadly. It talks you through the peer-review process, including how to respond to reviewers’ comments, the meaning and importance of Impact Factors and how to get citations. It also explores the challenges in the academic community around Open Access and other debates, including transparency, overlay journals, paywalls, publication bias, predatory journals, and the dangers of bullying.
Modern Photocatalytic Strategies in Natural Product Synthesis
Springer Nature, AG, Switzerland, 2023.
Description: This book presents recent reports of total syntheses involving a photocatalytic reaction as a key step in the methodology. Modern photocatalysis has proven its generality for the development and functionalization of native functionalities. To date, the field has found broad applications in diverse research areas, including the total synthesis of natural products. Among the selected examples presented in this book, it highlights how the photocatalytic process proceeds in a highly chemo-, regio-, and stereoselective manner, thereby allowing the rapid access to structurally complex architectures under light-driven conditions.
Nanotoxicology: Toxicity Evaluation of Nanomedicine Applications
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2021.
Description: The field of nanomedicine has risen quickly due to the increasing number of designer-made nanomaterials. These nanomaterials have the potential to manage diseases and change the way medicine is currently studied. This book delivers a comprehensive coverage in the field with fundamental understanding, serving as a platform to convey essential concepts of nanotoxicology and how these concepts can be employed to develop advanced nanomaterials for a range of biomedical applications. This book is an effort to answer some of the thoughtful nanotoxicological complications and their auspicious probable solutions with new approaches and careful toxicity assessment.
The Elusive Road Towards Effective Cancer Prevention and Treatment
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2022.
Description: Cancer will remain a global major health problem unless new diagnostic, prognostic, and management approaches are discovered to address both loss of life and quality of life. Here we summarize the general physiology, pathology, heterogeneity, and evolution of cancer, status, limitations, and challenges associated with prevention, incidence, treatment, survival, and mortality, as well as future directions with regards to solid tumors. Perspectives are provided on how to improve pre-clinical understandings, outcomes, and patient care.
Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2022.
Description: Blacklisted from federal funding review panels but awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on bacteriophage, biologist Salvador Luria (1912–1991) was as much an activist as a scientist. In addition to his work with viruses and bacteria in the 1940s, Luria broke new ground in molecular biology and cancer research from the 1950s to the 1980s and was a leader in calling for scientists to accept an educational and advisory responsibility to the public. In return, he believed, the public should rely on science to strengthen social and political institutions. Luria joined the MIT faculty in 1960 and was the founding director of the Center for Cancer Research. Throughout his life he remained as passionate about his engagement with political issues as about his science and continued to fight for peace and freedom until his death.
When Stars Align at the Scientific Library - Visit Us at the Spring Research Festival!
The stars have aligned this year! The Spring Research Festival and National Library Week will be celebrated together! Stop by Booth #417 at the Spring Research Festival to learn all about the services the Scientific Library has to offer.
An information table will also be situated among all the scurry of activity in the Conference Center area of Building 549. The table, located in the lobby, will be manned by Scientific Library staff. Please stop by and let us know how we can help you in your research!
We look forward to seeing you on April 25 - 26!
Take Your Child to Work Day
The Library is planning on hosting a Hub event during Take Your Child to Work Day. The theme for this year is bees. It will include a Magic School Bus presentation inside a beehive, and an opportunity to craft a paper bee for the Library’s book bee hive. In addition, the Library will be sponsoring a Children’s Book Swap. Look for information in the near future about donating gently used books for this event. The Library Staff looks forward to welcoming many budding scientists during this exciting event!
Cookies & Cocoa at the Library
Though it was an unseasonably warm February day, several visitors stopped by the Library for the Cookies & Cocoa event to celebrate Nati
onal Library Lovers Month. While enjoying their refreshments, several people explored the book collection, while others took advantage of the Quiet Study Rooms and open carrels. As the cookies quickly disappeared, the event was counted as a success!