The Scopus trial has been concluded. Thank you for participating. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with flexible tools to track, analyze and visualize research.. Scopus is strong in all areas of the sciences. Updated daily, it indexes over 18,000 peer-reviewed journals and includes the content from Embase. The trialContinue reading “Scopus Trial Underway (concluded)”
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RefWorks Enhancements
With the New Year comes a new release of Refworks! In addition to general stability improvements, the new release has several enhancements. Of these, one of the most exciting is the new Drag-and-Drop functionality for the Quick Access bar which means that users can click on the grey bar above any reference summary and dragContinue reading “RefWorks Enhancements”
PubMed and Internet Explorer 6
As of September 1, PubMed may no longer work with IE 6. The current version of Internet Explorer is IE 9 and if you look at the Microsoft Internet Explorer download page, it doesn’t go back further than IE 7. You can find out which version of Internet Explorer you are using, you can findContinue reading “PubMed and Internet Explorer 6”
Printing Chapters from AccessMedicine and AccessPharmacy
Beginning September 1, 2011, the ability to print a chapter at a time will no longer be available in AccessMedicine and AccessPharmacy. Printing by section will still be possible. The following message from the publisher (and copyright holder), McGraw-Hill, explains why: Last week, only a few days after it had posted to AccessMedicine, the newestContinue reading “Printing Chapters from AccessMedicine and AccessPharmacy”
DynaMed is Getting a Makeover
Sometime during the week of July 18, the point of care database DynaMed will be getting a new look along with some new functionality. A beta version of the new design is available. The company that produces DynaMed is asking users to provide them with feedback so some of this new functionality may change before theContinue reading “DynaMed is Getting a Makeover”
Faculty of 1000 Posters: Open Poster Repository for Biology and Medicine
From the University of Iowa Libraries Scholarly Communications blog Transitions…a posting about the open access resource Faculty of 1000 Posters. http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/transitions/?p=523
SciFinder Access Changing Now – June 30th Deadline
University Libraries will be moving to the web version of SciFinder Scholar Access to the client version (desktop application) of SciFinder we currently use will be discontinued on June 30, 2011. You must register by June 30th to be able to convert your files to the web version. (Convert your client-saved .sfr files to .akx files usingContinue reading “SciFinder Access Changing Now – June 30th Deadline”