New Interface & Features for Web of Science

On February 4, 2008 the Web of Science will introduce a new look and new features for searching the Science Citation Index database. The biggest change is a prominent Refine Results box on the left-hand side where you can limit your searches by specific subjects, years, authors, languages and more. Exporting options appear above the records. The Analyze Results feature allows you to compare up to 100,000 records by author, year, institution, and journal. See who has published the most papers in your field or which institutions publish in your area.

The Kresge Library has developed short, 3-5 minute tutorials to introduce you to the new interface. These can be found on the Library's Training and Guides page for Web of Science.

Beilstein Server Outage

The Beilstein CrossFire server, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Madison, will be undergoing maintenance this coming Sat/Sun from 10 pm PST, Jan 19 (Saturday) until 6 am, Jan 20 (Sunday). The server will be completely shut down during this time and inaccessible using the Beilstein CrossFire client software.

If you have any questions about Beilstein, feel free to contact Aileen Chang of the Kresge Library at x4-8705, aileen@scripps.edu, or helplib@scripps.edu.

SciFinder Scholar Update

On January 2, 2008, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will discontinue the following versions of SciFinder Scholar:

* SciFinder Scholar 2004.2 for Windows
* SciFinder Scholar 2004.2 for Mac (OS 9)
* SciFinder Scholar Mac OS X 1.0 for Mac (OS X)

To ensure continued access to the CAS databases, please upgrade to the latest version of SciFinder Scholar by the end of December 2007. After that time, the versions of the SciFinder Scholar client noted above will be unable to access the CAS server. Download installation information for the latest versions (both Mac and PC) can be found at: http://www.scripps.edu/library/Scifinder.html.

If you have any questions about upgrading your version of SciFinder Scholar, please contact Aileen Chang of the Kresge Library, at x4-8705 or helplib@scripps.edu.