The document summarizes upcoming changes to resources and services at the Chemistry Faculty and Students' library. Key points include: the library is transitioning to an academic commons; free scanner and mobile site will be available; SciFinder client is being discontinued; exhibits and services will continue in different campus locations; new e-resources like Annual Reviews backfiles and Springer ebooks have been acquired; Summon and Credo Reference will be available; and hundreds of thousands of e-resources can now be accessed through the catalog. The nature of scholarly communication is also changing as discussed in several cited articles.

1. Changes to the Library and You:
Chemistry Faculty and Students
Joseph Kraus
3‐31‐11

2. Changes to the Library
• http://library.du.edu/site/academicCommons/
• http://blogs.du.edu/today/news/penrose‐library‐planning‐
transition‐is‐underway
• http://www.duclarion.com/news/first‐look‐at‐new‐du‐
library‐design‐1.2128581
• Free scanner
• Mobile site
• CAS announced the discontinuation of the client version of
SciFinder for June 30, 2011.
• We will continue to have exhibits, such as
http://library.du.edu/penrosepen/jim‐river‐exhibit‐by‐du‐
photography‐professor‐roddy‐macinnes‐2

3. • Services in Driscoll Ballroom
– Working on electrical capacity and computers
• Materials in the Hampden Center, 10 miles
west, will be delivered back to campus.
• Offices in Aspen Hall.

4. New Resources
• Using one‐time funds
– Annual Reviews backfile
– Morgan & Claypool ebooks
– Applied Science and Business Periodicals Index
Retrospective (1913‐1983)
– Springer ebooks
• Summon
• Credo Reference
• Hundreds of thousands of e‐resources in the
catalog.

5. Some articles
The nature of scholarly communication is
changing
• http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSE
QuarterlyMagazineVolum/FutureofHigherEducation/225867
• http://www.rin.ac.uk/our‐work/communicating‐and‐
disseminating‐research/transitions‐scholarly‐
communications‐portfolio‐res
• http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2011/03/29/might‐copies‐of‐plos‐
one‐change‐journals‐forever/