The main Library (located in the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Building) and the Cyber Library (Zuckerman Research Center) will be closed on Monday, May 26, 2014 in observance of Memorial Day. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at both of our locations.
Sony’s 185 TB Cassette Tape Breaks Storage Capacity Record
Sony has developed a cassette tape that can store up to 185 terabytes of data – 74 times the capacity of traditional tapes or the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs or 47 million songs or all the music on the iTunes Store nearly ten times over.
Sony detailed its magnetic-tape technology in a recent press release, saying that it uses sputter deposition. The process shrinks magnetic particles on a soft magnetic underlay with a smooth interface to create a nanograined magnetic layer. Each particle is 7.7 nanometers wide, with 10 million nanometers in one centimeter.
The new storage media is not yet commercially available, but Sony continues to work on it and other technologies using the sputter method.
Free Trial of SYNLETT Until December 31st!
Thieme is currently offering the MSK Library trial access to SYNLETT, including backfiles starting from 2009. SYNLETT is an international journal reporting research results and trends in synthetic organic chemistry in short personalized reviews and preliminary communications. It covers all fields of scientific endeavor that involve organic synthesis.
Since this is a free trial only, access will terminate automatically by December 31, 2014. Please click here to access SYNLETT. You must be on campus or logged into the network in order to get access.
If you take advantage of this free trial and believe that SYNLETT would enhance the Library’s collection, please contact Mark Monakey.