February 1997

February 25, 1997

Full Image Printing Available for Business Journal Articles

ABI/Inform PowerPages, the full image version of the ABI/Inform Global database, is now available from most of the public workstations on the 1st floor of the Main Library. The text, graphs, tables, photographs, etc. of more than half of the articles from the 1,000+ journals indexed in ABI can be printed out to a laser printer located at the Main Library Circulation Desk. For a mere $0.25 per page PowerPages enables you to quickly print out articles from journals not subscribed to by the U of S Libraries.
Subjects covered in this database include:

Accounting Finance Management Science
Banking Health Care Marketing
Computers Human Resources Public Administration
Economics Insurance Real Estate
Energy International Trends Taxation
Engineering Law Telecommunications
Environment Management Transportation

February 21, 1997

BioMedNet Special Library Offer until 1st May 1997.
As a member of the University of Saskatchewan group you are entitled to free access to the full text and graphics of 34 core biological and medical journals online in the BioMedNet library until May 1st. These include Current Biology, Structure, Folding & Design, Chemistry & Biology, The Scientist, and 29 Current Opinion journals in biology and medicine. Join now to take advantage of this offer and don't forget to tell your colleagues. You may also be entitled to free online access to selected journals to which your library has a print subscription - see your subs page in Your Room for details, after you have joined.

February 14, 1997

Tetrahedron Alert provides immediate access to full graphical abstracts for all five Tetrahedron journals published by Elsevier Science, covering approximately a three month period:

University of Saskatchewan Faculty, Staff, and Students may register for a unique User ID and Password by connecting to http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/tis or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tis.

First-time users should select the menu item "Registration for paid subscribers", read the page, and enter 00768016 in the Customer No. box, then hit the Register button. Accept the terms and conditions of use, and finally enter your personal details on the User Registration form.

When making subsequent connections to the service, select the "Tetrahedron Alert" option. You will be asked for your username and password when accessing the abstracts.

If you have any questions regarding this procedure, please contact Peter Scott, Library, Systems Department


February 14, 1997

CAB International has granted the University of Saskatchewan a license to access the full text versions of Bulletin of Entomological Research and BioControl News and Information. Note: this service is ONLY available for machines in the usask.ca domain.

February 14, 1997

Academic Press has granted the University of Saskatchewan a license to access the full text version of Journal of Molecular Biology plus the abstracts of all its 175 journals. Connect to the IDEAL page, select direct login, then select titles from the index. Note: this service is ONLY available for machines in the usask.ca domain.

February 14, 1997

UnCoverWeb. The UnCoverWeb search interface provides full UnCover services via the Internet. UnCoverWeb accesses the full UnCover database of over 8 million articles from over 17,000 periodicals. Searching the UnCover database is free.

February 14, 1997

Medscape for health professionals and interested consumers, features the Web's largest collection of free full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, TOXLINE, and interactive quizzes. Updated daily!

This index is maintained by Peter Scott, Systems Department, University of Saskatchewan Libraries.