SciFinder has (finally) released their Mac OS X version! If you're not familiar, SciFinder Scholar is the major bibliographic database for chemistry, including journal literature, conference literature, patents, and more. The resource is available for U of M students and staff. Download links and instructions are available at http://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/subject/software/. You can read more about its features at http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/macversion.html.
If you follow the "Download links and instructions" URL above, you get a very unfriendly message:
"You are not authorized to download SciFinder Scholar.
Log in"
What this means is that you must first give your X.500 information.
A message that says that would be much better.
- Lynda
Posted by: Lynda Ellis at January 30, 2006 1:30 PMThanks for bringing this to my attention. I checked with our chem librarian, and this behavior has been reported by a few other people on campus (in the AHC area of campus anyway) as well. I also find the same behavior from home. Hopefully we'll be able to resolve the glitch.
Posted by: Kevin at January 31, 2006 7:12 AMI tried again from my office in the AHC and it works properly now!
- Lynda
Posted by: Lynda Ellis at February 3, 2006 11:46 AMGlad to hear. Seems to be largely a matter of link clean-up; I was taking you to an outdated link that had persisted on a number of our web pages. I think we've cleaned up the source of those old links now!
Posted by: Kevin at February 3, 2006 2:15 PM