Crerar Library News

Transition to SciFinder on the web

Chemical Abstracts Service is discontinuing all access to SciFinder via the desktop client software as of June 30, 2011.  University of Chicago access will be managed as follows: 

• Effective March 1, 2011, the option to download the DESKTOP client will no longer be available.
• All users are strongly encouraged to set up their WEB account   and begin using SciFinder on the web as soon as possible. 
• Allocation of available seats (concurrent sessions) will be shifted gradually from the DESKTOP client to WEB version, with all seats being allocated to the web by June 1, 2011

 Features of the web version include:

• the ability to save searches and automatically run them against all new records added to the database (Keep me posted/current awareness)
• similarity search on reactions, not just substances
• sort features including sorting substance records by number of literature references
• export physical property data to Microsoft® Excel®
• add comments to specific references for sharing information and insights with colleagues
• retains search history for previous 10 search sessions
• off campus access via the proxy server

If you have questions about SciFinder on the web, please contact Andrea Twiss-Brooks atbrooks@uchicago.edu

    

Digital versions of large architectural works

Several oversized, heavily illustrated works of architectural and historical interest from the John Crerar Library collection are  being digitized by the University of Chicago Library.  The first of these works is now available for the first time in digital format.  Baukunst des Mittelalters is a 19th century collection of illustrations by Johannes Otzen of German cathedrals and other structures from the Middle Ages.  This digital work is now available for view at http://a2.lib.uchicago.edu/pip.php?/pres/2011/pres2011-0010.pdf .  Additional titles will be available as work on them is completed.

The full bibliographic record (including author, full title, publisher and date of publication) is also available:  http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8262334  

This digitization work is generously supported by the John Crerar Foundation.