Blog topic: New acquisitions

Software news: Cambridge structural database (CSD) 2020 release available

January 17, 2020

by Grace Baysinger

Established in 1965 by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is the world’s repository for small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures.

We have a campus-wide site license for CSD Enterprise which includes ALL CSD software and ALL application data. Access to CSD software is limited to current students, faculty, and staff at Stanford. You must have the activation key and the license customer ID before you are able to download the software. To request an activation key, please see: https://library.stanford.edu/science/software/cambridge-structural-database

Software news: OriginPro 2020 is here, license renewed

January 17, 2020

by Grace Baysinger

Engineering

New acquisitions

Science

Origin is a complete graphing and data analysis software package that provides a suite of features catering to the needs of scientists and engineers. OriginPro offers all of the features of Origin plus extended analysis tools in the areas of Peak Fitting, Surface Fitting, Statistics, Signal Processing, and Image Processing.

Our campus-wide site license for OriginPro was recently renewed with the new license expiring 4/15/2020. Access is limited to current students, faculty, and staff at Stanford. Please go to https://library.stanford.edu/science/software/originpro to download a copy of the software and to request a license key. You do not have to be connected to the network after installing the program.

Software news: Mnova license renewed, version 14 released

January 17, 2020

by Grace Baysinger

Engineering

New acquisitions

Science

Mnova 14 is a major release that incorporates many new features in NMR, MS, NMRPredict and Screen plugins as well as others. They have integrated a new Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopies (ElViS) module and as usual they have fixed several bugs.

The 2020 license keys for Mnova are available to current students, faculty, and staff at Stanford. The 2019 license keys will expire 2/14/20 and the 2020 license keys will expire 2/14/21. In addition to being able to download to your personal computer, Mnova (or Mestrenova) is also available on cluster computers.

Washington Post online now available to Stanford

January 10, 2020

by Regina Lee Roberts

Digital library

Government information

Media

New acquisitions

News

Stanford Libraries provides access to the WaPo.com! A major first in access to current events and news. No individual subscription needed.

New cuneiform tablet acquired by Special Collections

January 8, 2020

by Laura Wilsey

Fun facts

Manuscripts

New acquisitions

The Stanford Libraries recently acquired its second cuneiform tablet. The acquisition was in response to the high level of use of the first tablet held by the Libraries, a Sumerian cuneiform tablet from 2056 B.C.E. which was a gift of David C. Weber in 1990 (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083797).