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Issue no. 107, July 29, 2002

Historical Databases

The UIC Library is pleased to announce that the historical databases America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts now link to the full-text of the journals offered by Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu. When searching these historical databases you will automatically see links to the full-text of your research results. Links are also made to all JSTOR titles.

SciFinder Scholar

The UIC Library announces the availability of a new version of the SciFinder Scholar client software. SciFinder Scholar 2001 supports searching of the chemical literature through a variety of ways-by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. The capability to search either references cited in or citing selected articles is a new feature with the 2001 version. The database offers access to references in more than 8,000 journals as well as patents, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, and books. SciFinder Scholar currently indexes more than 41 million chemical substances in literature dating back to 1907. The database provides automatic links to many of UIC's electronic journals making it easy to navigate from search results to the full text of an article.

SciFinder Scholar is licensed for use by UIC-affiliated users only. The client is currently installed on workstations in the Science Library. It is also available for installation on campus computers in laboratories and offices. For full instructions on installing SciFinder Scholar 2001 on your computer see http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/science/resources/scifinder/macinstall.shtml for Macintosh instructions or http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/science/resources/scifinder/pcinstall.shtml for Windows instructions. SciFinder Scholar 2001 is Windows XP compatible. Help documentation may be found at http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/resources.html and full system documentation may be downloaded when you install the client. For a detailed review of the SCIFinder Scholar database see http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-fall/databases.html. For answers to some questions about UIC's SciFinder Scholar see the SciFinder Scholar FAQs at http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/science/resources/scifinder/FAQ.shtml . Please direct any additional questions you have to LIB-SCI@uic.edu.

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