I will be out of the office from Tuesday, October 27th – Tuesday, November 3rd. If you need immediate assistance, please contact the HSL Reference Desk at 716-829-3900 x102 or askhsl@buffalo.edu. I will respond to emails on Wednesday, November 4th.

Sale begins at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 27th and runs through Monday, November 2nd

First Floor, Health Sciences Library

Books in nearly all Health and Biomedical Sciences areas will be available.

Also included are a selection of books from the natural sciences, social sciences, law, business, and the humanities PLUS best sellers and popular non-fiction.

Proceeds from this sale will help fund future purchases for the Health Sciences Library collections.

BUY EARLY FOR THE BEST SELECTION!!

Please bring $1 bills since change may not be available.

On Thursday, I’ll be teaching a workshop entitled, Maximizing Google’s Research Potential. It will be held in the Media Instruction Room (basement of the HSL) on Thursday, October 22, 2009 3pm – 4:30pm.

Only 4 spots left. Register here.

On Tuesday morning, October 13, all access to SciFinder will be through the new web-based interface that Chemical Abstracts Service has developed over the past few years.  The benefits and rationale for this change are explained in the attached SciFinder Web FAQ document.

Although the web version does not require any special software, the vendor does require individual registration. This quick and simple process is described in the attached registration instruction document or by going to <http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/scifinder-web.html>

Please note Chemical Abstracts Service has stopped development work on the special client access program that we have used since 2000.  Compelling reasons for this migration include the ability to save searches and run them against new records as they are added to the database, increased security, and export of physical properties to Microsoft Excel. A pilot roll out to our main user group, the chemistry department, has gone very well.

Please contact me with any questions or concern at dhendrix@buffalo.edu

Attention Mac users!

The new version of EndNote, EndNote X.3, is now available for download at http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/endnote/