The University Libraries and the Chemistry Department have together purchased access to SciFinder Scholar 2006 for UI students, faculty and staff. SciFinder Scholar 2006 is a desktop client which allows you to search Chemical Abstracts & MEDLINE by author and topic. You can also search Chemical Abstracts for chemical structures or substructures, reaction information, find commercial sources for compounds, browse the contents of journals, link to the full-text of articles and patents, and more. To install the client, follow the directions below (please note you must perform the sire.prf step after installing the client or you will not be able to connect to the databases). If you have any problems, call the Chemistry Library at 335-3085.
1. Click on this link, sfs2006.exe, and save the file to a temporary folder or to your desktop. (This is a self-extracting file which will install the client on your computer. This file does not access the databases and can be deleted after you install the client.) 2. Execute the file you saved by double-clicking the file name, sfs2006.exe, in the temporary folder or on your desktop. Follow the prompts to complete the installation, usually you should just accept the default answers. When asked whether you have a disk for Custom Site Files, say No. 3. After installing SciFinder Scholar 2006, click on this link, site.prf, and save the file to the folder where you installed SciFinder (if you accepted the defaults, save this file to the folder called "SFSCHLR" on your c: drive).
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1. Click on this link, sfs2006-osx.dmg, (a Macintosh Disk Image File) and download to your desktop or a download folder on your OS X drive. 2. Double-click "sfs2006-osx.dmg" to mount SciFinder Scholar (a Desktop Volume containing the SciFinder Scholar Application Package). 3. Open the SciFinder Scholar 2006 Desktop Volume, if it does not auto-open, and choose "as Icons" for the View. 4. Drag and drop the SciFinder Scholar Application Package (~21.9 MB) to your Applications folder. 5. Eject (Unmount) the desktop SciFinder Scholar Volume. 6. Download the site.prf.sit file to the desktop (to download, right-click or Control-click the link, and then choose 'Download Link to Disk' [or 'Download linked file'] from the pop-up menu) 7. Go back to the Applications folder 8. CTRL-Click (or right -click) on the SciFinder icon and choose to "Show Package Contents" 9. Double-click on the folder called "Contents" 10. Double click on the folder called "MacOS" 11. Drag the "site.prf" file from the desktop into the "MacOS" folder 12. From within the "MacOS" folder, highlight the "site.prf" file and go to File --> Get Info (keyboard: APPLE-I) to get info on that file. 13. Under the Extensions section, make sure the file extension does not have the .txt - if it does, remove the "'.txt" part 14. Close windows until you are back at the Applications folder 15. If you have not already created an alias for SciFinder, CTRL-Click (or right-click) on the SciFinder icon and choose to "Make Alias" 16. An alias icon will be shown - drag it to the desktop 17. If you experience difficulty, please contact leo-clougherty@uiowa.edu for assistance. |
Last updated: 16-Jan-2008