SciFinder Scholar: 2007 (SFS-2007)

What is it? SciFinder Scholar is the search engine for Chemical Abstracts (1907- ) and Index Medicus, a.k.a.   MEDLINE, (1950- ). These abstracts index journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and preprints.

Access Linitations:  University of  Notre Dame students, faculty, and staff can install the client software. The Chemistry Library has purchased 24-hour access for five (5) simultaneous users. The busiest times are afternoons during the week.

Three (3) options for searching SFS-2007:

1. Go to any Library XP computer.

Start-> Library Services -> Science & Technology -> Scifinder
Scholar -> Scholar 2007

(NB- This path does not work for computer-cluster computers.)

2. Install client on your Windows (98/2000/Me/NT 4.0/XP) computer.
            (released Aug 2005)

Click here to get installation instructions.

The most common installation problem is not placing the site.prf in the same folder as the application.

(NB - Older versions of SciFinder Scholar (SFS-2002, SFS-2004, & SFS-2004.1) will be retired on March 31, 2006.)

3. Install client on your Macintosh (OS X) computer.
            (released July 2006)

Click here to get installation instructions.

The most common installation problem is a corrupted site.prf file. Read the installation instructions for three methods to solve this problem

(NB -  Older versions of SciFinder Scholar (SFS-2002, SFS-2004, & SFS-2004.1) will be retired on March 31, 2006.)

 

page created: 23 Aug  2005
updated: 06 July 2007

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