e pur si muove

The group retreat is finally happening. August 12 - 17 in sunny Vieques, Puerto Rico.

I’m looking forward to playing with bioluminescent algae.

I came across a full-text search engine from ChemSpy search box to find information across a wide bunch of chemical journals. They said it’s like Elsevier (which isn’t in the ChemSpy database), but then again it does have Scirus already.

Think Google for published scientific papers.

From the website, the impressive list of participating publishers are “Alphamed Press, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Psychiatric Publishing, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society of Civil Engineers, Annual Reviews, Ashley Publications, Association for Computing Machinery, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, BioMed Central, Blackwell Publishing, BMJ Publishing Group, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, EDP Science, FASEB, IEEE, INFORMS, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physics Publishing, International Union of Crystallography, Investigative Ophthamology and Visual Science, Institute of Pure and Applied Physics (IPAP), Journal of Clinical Oncology, S. Karger AG, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mary Ann Liebert, Medicine Publishing Group, Nature Publishing Group, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Oxford University Press, Peeters Publishers, PNAS, RILEM Publications SARL, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis, Thieme Publishing Group, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Vathek Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, The World Bank.”

Ironically, the American Chemical Society isn’t in either. (Their search engine and citation lookup interface is really, really boneheaded.) Which kinda sucks, but it does cover a wide gamut of physical chemistry, so I’m reasonably happy.