Blog topic: Science

Software news: OriginPro 2020 is here, license renewed

January 17, 2020

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

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.

Databases of the week: Finding journal articles in biology

December 16, 2019

Digital library

Science

Listed below are seven of the most frequently used databases for finding biological literature. Which is the best database for finding journal articles in biology? The quick answer is that it depends on your specific topic. Here are some suggestions to get you started:

JoVE first peer-reviewed scientific video journal

JoVE video journals and Science Education collections available at Stanford

December 6, 2019

Science

JoVE publishes a collection of video methods journals in biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, neuroscience and behavior. Articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols that facilitate scientific reproducibility and productivity. The scope includes novel techniques, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold standard protocols.

Databases of the week - Accelerate your research by using xSearch, Funding Resources, and Chemical Safety search

November 11, 2019

Engineering

Science

One challenge that researchers face is where to look for information. Google Scholar is popular but doesn’t include the wide array of resources licensed by the Stanford Libraries. Google Scholar (GS) search results are also limited by the last time GS crawled a website. Current students, faculty, and staff at Stanford are able to use three customized collections of databases to find needed information. Developed by the Stanford Libraries and Deep Web Technologies, these databases are grouped by subject categories and multiple subject categories can be searched at one time. Up to 100 citations are available from each database and the information is retrieved in real-time.

A new way to use arXiv.org

October 4, 2019

arXiv.org is a great resource for pre-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics. While the PDF format of the pre-prints hosted there is great for offline reading or printing, it's not the best choice for online viewing, and now there is a great alternative in arXiv Vanity (https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/).

Stanford Libraries SERG/Carpentries Workshop Series

September 16, 2019

by Zac Painter

Stanford University is a member organization of The Carpentries, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching foundational skills for research computing skills. This partnership is managed by Dr. Amy Hodge of the Stanford University Libraries, and is open to the entire campus community. Over the past few quarters the Stanford University Libraries have offered the popular two-day Software Carpentry workshops as an open enrollment to anyone on campus. Other campus organizations have also run and will continue to run similar versions of these workshops.