The Library is pleased to announce that one of the world's premier science databases is now available in a new web-based version. This means that SciFinder is now also available to off-campus users (unlike the desktop version). The web version offers a new, redesigned interface, improved saving (including Keep-Me-Posted alerts), plus more.

Access:
SciFinder Scholar requires you to register the first time you use it. (You must provide a valid Massey email: …@massey.ac.nz.) Thereafter you sign in each time you go to the SciFinder Scholar login page. There are a limited number of logins, so it is important to click Sign Out when you have finished to free up sessions for others. If you cannot get in, try again later.

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Since 1927 Biological Abstracts has been the premier index to the literature of the life sciences and it was one of the earliest abstracting journals to be converted to a computerised database in the 1960s. At Massey it has long been available on the OVID platform, but from the beginning of 2009 we are switching our access to Web of Knowledge where it will join Web of Science (formerly the science and social science citation indexes), ISI Proceedings, CAB Abstracts and Medline (see below).

When we tested both platforms earlier in the year a group of users found the Web of Knowledge platform much easier to use and we can now assume that it is already familiar to users of Biological Abstracts. Some of its advantages are

• A “cleaner” screen and record layout
• More sorting and analysis options
• Easier downloading of records to EndNote
• More direct linking to full text documents
• Ability to use Web of Science citation linking data

Biological Abstracts online coverage is from 1980 to the present and the library still holds print volumes from 1927 to 1979.

Some of you may have already noticed that Medline has already been included within Web of Knowledge although we still retain access through OVID and PubMed. Anyone wishing to download records to EndNote should check out the new version and, as with Biological Abstracts, the Web of Knowledge records integrate neatly with the Web of Science citation data.

STOP PRESS: 29 JANUARY 2009

These are now available

Medline

Biological Abstracts