March 1997

March 30, 1997
The Economist
The on-line home for a selection of articles from the current issue of The Economist, all the articles from The Economist Review (a monthly books and multimedia supplement to The Economist) and several of our surveys. Later this year, this site will start to offer the complete contents of The Economist each week.


March 30, 1997
Science News Online
The 75 year old weekly is putting a generous number of full-text articles on the web each week. They've archived them back to 1994. Additional features include: Science News of the Year - topics range from the discovery of the oldest known rock art in the world and the detection of several planets outside the solar system to the sequencing of various genomes and the development of new drugs to combat AIDS; Timeline - articles from 70 years back; Food for Thought - facts about food; Mathland - weekly commentary by Ivars Peterson; and Mystery Box


March 25, 1997
Combined Health Information Database
CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the United States Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. The value of this database is that it lists a wealth of health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere. New records are added quarterly and current listings are checked regularly to help ensure that all entries are up to date and still available from their original sources. Some older records are retained for archival purposes.


March 24, 1997
Springer
Gives acces to online versions of all 180 journals published by Springer. For now, only abstracts are available. Next week, full-text will be available. Access is free for 1997 only.


March 24, 1997
Institute of Physics
Gives acces to online versions of all 33 journals published by the Institute. Access granted to computers in the usask.ca domain only.


March 19, 1997
IBM Patent Server
IBM lets you access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last seventeen years of images. The first entries date back to January 5, 1971. You can search, retrieve and study over two million patents. There are What's New? and FAQ pages, as well as information on the interesting history and background of this site.


March 19, 1997
Elsevier Science
General information from Elsevier Science. Also includes the Elsevier Science Tables of Contents service.

"ESToC is a service which currently provides you with access to the tables of contents of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science primary and review journals, covering a very wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. Abstracts, although searchable, will not appear on screen. The tables of contents go back to the first journal issues published in January 1995 and are updated on a weekly basis. The tables of contents appear in ESToC approximately six weeks after despatch of the journal issues. This way, we try to ensure that ESToC updates coincide with the physical availability of the journal issues."


March 11, 1997

The American Institute of Physics has granted the University of Saskatchewan a license to access the full text versions of it journals. Note: this service is ONLY available for machines in the usask.ca domain.
Applied Physics Letters                          Available Now!
JETP Letters                                     Available Now!
Review of Scientific Instruments                 Available Now!
The Journal of Chemical Physics                  Available Now!
Chaos                                            Available Now!
Journal of Applied Physics                       Available Now!
Journal of Mathematical Physics                  Available Now!
Physics of Plasmas                               Available Now!
Physics of Fluids                                April 1997
Physics of Particles and Nuclei                  May 1997
Physics of the Solid State                       May 1997
Journal of Optical Technology                    June 1997
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics  July 1997
Low Temperature Physics                          August 1997
Semiconductors                                   August 1997
Technical Physics                                September 1997
Technical Physics Letters                        September 1997

March 10, 1997
Blackwell's Electronic Journal Navigator
The University of Saskatchewan has been registered as a guest user for three months, starting 6 March, 1997.

Username: Bfeb1497Sask
Password: Oak
(Both case-sensitive)

As a guest, we will be able to access the abstracts and tables of contents for all journals on the system, and the full text of the following journals:
  • Molecular Biology, Vol. 22, Issue 5
  • Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Vol. 49, Issue 6
  • Journal of Architecture, Vol. 1, Issue 2
  • Journal of Materials Science Letters
    • Vol.9, Issue 9
    • Vol. 10, Issue 10
    • Vol. 16, Issues 1, 2 and 3
    • Vol. 16, Issues 11, 13 - 24


March 8, 1997
Search ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
This is a web version of the ERIC database, at Syracuse University, New York.


March 8, 1997
Project MUSE
In one of the first ventures of its kind, the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library have joined forces to launch Project Muse, an initiative enabling worldwide networked access to the full text of the Press's 40 scholarly journals. The University of Saskatchewan does not presently subscribe, but there are a number of "sample" journals accessible. A full subscription would cost around US$2,500.


March 3, 1997
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online
Free 2 week Trial.
"Grolier Interactive introduces the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online, an affordable solution that turns your Internet connection into a powerful information resource. The foundation of your digital library, it gives you encyclopedic depth and breadth with access to the best of the Internet."

March 3, 1997
ChemWeb
  • Join now and enjoy:
  • Free access to journals and databases during the beta-test
  • Unlimited free access to Discussion Groups, Meeting Rooms and Job Exchange
  • Substructure searching on the Web
  • ChemWeb.com offers:
  • A library of leading chemical periodicals, books and databases
  • A Shopping Mall with software, equipment, services and publications
  • A Job Exchange with hundreds of job offers and jobs wanted, world wide
  • Meeting Rooms, Discussion Groups, news and more
  • All text and substructures are fully searchable

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