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SciFinder Scholar 2002 is now available |
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Please note that the new SciFinder Scholar 2002 is now available.
To download SciFinder Scholar 2002 please visit
http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR2002/.
Click
here for the login ID and password.
We recommend that you save the file in the same directory as your
existing version of SciFinder Scholar. After downloading, go to
your subdirectory and click the file 'sfs2002.exe'. Follow the
prompts to complete the installation. It is not necessary to
uninstall the old version of SciFinder Scholar. Note that
SciFinder Scholar 2000 will be discontinued on March 31 2003.
Below are some of the new features of SciFinder Scholar 2002:
- Access synthetic information from more than 6 million reactions
- Find more than 1,000,000 experimental properties, including
boiling points and melting points
- Research your scientific topics with enhanced features
- Draw stereochemistry in a structure query and automatically
analyze answers (SSM only)
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Relocation of
Microform Loan Service to Loans Counter,
Circulation Department (5th floor) |
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The microform loan service of the Reprographic Services
Department will be merged with the Central Library loan services with
effect from 16 December 2002. The Microform Reading Room will also be
relocated to the room next to the RBR loan counter on the 5th floor.
Please approach staff at the Circulation Dept Loan counter for loans
of microforms (microfilm reels / microfiches).
For enquires regarding the microform collection or requests to
order microform titles , please direct your queries to
Mrs. Teo-Phoon Moi Ying
Senior Librarian
Media Resources Department
Email:
Tel: 6874-2026
or
Mr. Paul Tye
Librarian
Media Resources Department
Email:
Tel: 6874-2027
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Online Query System for DDS is now available |
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The query system for the Document
Delivery Service (DDS) is now available. It enables you to
check the status of your requests submitted since 1 July 2002.
Please note that you have to login to your own
NUSNET account to see your requests. You have the option
of checking the status of your requests by:
- Requests fulfilled
- Requests ordered
- Requests cancelled
To check your requests:
> Go to Digital Library at
http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/digital/
> Select the appropriate category under 'Electronic Forms for Library
Services'
> Click 'Check the status of your DDS request' under 'Request for
Document Delivery Services (DDS)'
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Migration of
IEEE Xplore host site |
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IEEE will be migrating the IEEE Xplore host
site during the week of Dec 16. This move will be transparent to IEEE
online users and will not affect links to the IEEE Xplore home page.
However, if you have bookmarked any other pages within the IEEE Xplore
site, including specific documents, you will need to update the links
following this transition. |
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New CDROMs
available at Science Library |
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The following new CDROMs are now available from Science
Library Information Desk. For a description of each title,
please click on the title in the Digital Library under Databases.
- ANI-CD Arthropod Name Index on CD-ROM 1996
- Biochemistry
- Cabikey to the Indo-Australasian Dacini Fruit Flies
- Cabikey to the Mosquito Genera of the World
- Catlab
- CIS Multinational Companies 2002
- Diseases of Cereal Grains
- Diseases of Herbaceous Ornamentals and Roses
- Diseases of Legumes
- Diseases of Small Fruits
- Focus on Genetics
- Lumière Synchroton Light
- T305 Digital Communications CD-ROM
- Taxakey Aphids on the World's Crops
- Physical World, The : Electromagnetic Fields and the Classical
Physics of Matter
- Physical World, The: Mechanics and the Scale of the Universe
- Physical World, The: Quantum Physics
- Wiley Registry of Mass Spectral Data (7th ed.)
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New OECD
titles available via Digital Library
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We are pleased to announce that OECD books and periodicals are now
available via the Digital Library.
To access OECD titles, please go to:
> Library homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click on 'Digital Library'
> Select 'Statistical Data' under Browse by Title
> Select 'SourceOECD'
The list of OECD publications added to the Digital Library is
available for OECD ejournals
& OECD ebooks
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People's Daily Index CDROM
now available at Chinese Library
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The People's Daily Index (1946-1995) provides citations to over one
million articles from People's Daily (Renmin Ribao), the official
newspaper of the central government of China. Each citation contains
five fields: date, headline, author, country, and subject. Users
can search the citations by any of these fields.
The People's Daily Index CDROM is available from the Chinese Library
Information Desk.
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New ebooks
available from netLibrary |
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A total of 100 new ebooks from netLibrary are now available via the
Digital Library.
To access netLibrary titles, please go to:
> Library homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click on 'Digital Library'
> Select 'eBooks' under Browse by Title
> Select 'netLibrary' under Browse by Publisher
Click here
for a list of netLibrary ebooks available via the Digital Library.
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New ejournals
available from Haworth Press |
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A total of 37 ejournals, mainly in the fields of Social Science,
Social Work and Library Science, are now available via the Digital
Library. These ejournals are published by Haworth Press and are
available free with the print subscription.
To access Haworth titles, please go to:
> Library homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click on 'Digital Library'
> Select 'eJournals' under Browse by Title
> Select 'Haworth Press' under Browse by Publisher
Click here
for a list of Haworth Press ejournals available via the Digital
Library.
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Intralibrary
loan service for academic staff and graduate students |
We are pleased to announce that Intralibrary Loan service currently
available to academic staff is now extended to graduate students.
With this service, users can request to collect circulating books and
bound periodicals at any NUS Library location of their
choice.
To request for this service, please go to:
> Digital Library at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/digital/
> Under 'Electronic Forms for Library Services,' select the
appropriate category, e.g. Staff, Graduate students
> Complete the 'Request for Intralibrary Loan' eform
With immediate effect, the following Emerald Abstracts databases are
no longer available via the Digital Library:
- Computer Abstracts International
- Information Management & Technology
The following Emerald databases are also currently not available
pending negotiation of licence agreement:
- Operations & Production Management
- Human Resource Management
- Management of Quality
- Marketing & Logistics
- Rapid Management Intelligence
- Top Management
- World Trends Hospitality & Tourism
- Management Books & Resources
- Computer & Communications Security Abstracts
We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Digital Media Gallery (DMG)
The DMG is jointly developed by CIT and NUS Libraries as a central
repository for:
a) selected digital audio visual works in the library collection, and
b) audio visual works created by the various teaching faculties within
the campus.
In addition, DMG also offers a collection of images, animation and text
files.
DMG provides two interesting features:
a) The time stamp index which serves as a bookmark to segment the
video content based on the time indices, and
b) The keyframe indices which provide a quick overall summary of
the video. The keyframes are sized according to the duration of the
program. By clicking at a particular frame, the program will
playback from that frame.
Currently, the bulk of the audio and video contents were selected
from the library audio visual collection. A simple search facility
is provided to search across all the contents in the DMG. Teaching staff
can make use of the DMG interface to select digital resources from the
DMG for integration into the IVLE.
NUS Channel
The NUS channel, a component of the NUS CAST, is jointly hosted by
CIT and NUS Libraries. The objective of this channel is to webcast NUS
live events and programs produced by local televison stations featuring
NUS and its staff. The NUS channel is dedicated to broadening the
access to and appreciation of the video collection. This channel
provides an avenue to access content in the Digital Media Gallery as
well as to experiment with new methods of digital broadcast.
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Law
databases added to Digital Library |
We are pleased to announce that the following databases are now
available via the Digital Library:
All England Direct
This is a full text searchable database of the following
publications:
- All England Reporter - a next day digest and approved judgment
service.
- Archive - Searchable database of All England Reporter (Oct 1997- )
- Official Transcripts (Oct 1997- ) of selected cases from Court of
Appeal (Civil Division and Criminal Division), QBD Crown Office
List, House of Lords and Privy Council and cases from all other
division of the High Court.
- All England Law Reports (1936- )
- All England Commercial Cases (1999- )
- All England European Cases (1995- )
- Annual Review - A companion publication to All England Law Reports
- Legal Opinion - A review of recent law case
Please note that All England Law Reports on
CD-ROM (via NUSNET CDROM on Windows) has been replaced by All England
Direct with effect from 31 August 2002.
CLJ Legal Network
This is a Malaysian full text legal database consisting of the
following:
1. Cases
- Current Law Journal and Supplement decisions reported in Malaysian
Current Law Journal (MCLJ) printed publications from 1981 onwards
- Industral Law Reports from 1980 onwards)
- Legal Network Series (cases that have not been published by MCLJ)
from 1894 onwards
2. Legislation
- Malaysian Principal Legislation (all Federal Numbered Acts from
Act 1 to present day). In addition, several Rules are available.
- Malaysian Subsidiary Legislation (consisting of Selected Rules and
Regulations from PUA series from 1957 onwards).
- Malaysian Amending Acts
- Malaysian Bills (current year's bills are available)
- Malaysian Treaties (over 80 Multilateral Treaties and Conventions)
Other data includes:
- Legislation Forms
- Articles from MCLJ publications
- Practice Notes and Directions from the superior courts.
- Words & Phrases consisting of a searchable collection of all
the MCLJ published cases where the head note contains the catchword
"Word and Phrases".
- Translator consisting a database of legal terms translated from
Malaysian to English and from English to Malaysian.
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myLINC
is now available in LINC |
We are pleased to announce that myLINC is now available in LINC.
myLINC is an enhancement of 'View Your Own Library Records'.
After you login to myLINC, you are able to request for items without
having to key in you username/password again. You are also able to
save your favorite search statements for easy reference and searching in
future sessions. If you prefer, you can receive automatic email alerts
when the library acquires items matching your saved searches.
Always remember to click the logout button if
you have login to myLINC.
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Advanced
keyword searching now available in LINC |
We are pleased to announce that the Advanced Search feature is now
available in LINC.
The Advanced Search replaces the three current keyword searches in
LINC: keyword, subject keyword, and table of contents keyword. There are
two options for the Advanced Search: Simple Keyword Search and Advanced
Keyword Search. In the Advanced Search, you will be able to limit your
search to only one field, e.g. title of subject. It also supports
proximity searching so that you can specify how close the keywords
should be from each other. Furthermore, there will be choices to sort
the retrieved results: by reverse chronology, alphabetical sequence, or
relevance.
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Siku
Quanshu now available via Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that Siku Quanshu (Wenyuan Ge edition)
- Professional Version, is now available online via the Digital
Library.
The Siku Quanshu (Complete Library in Four Branches of
Literature) was compiled during the years 1773-1782 by edict from
Emperor Qianlong. It collected some 3,400 classical works, including
works written before the Qianlong era, on philosophy, history,
literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics,
astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, etc. These
classics represent a major Chinese cultural legacy and the essence
of Chinese civilisation. Siku Quanshu, being the largest
encyclopedic collection of Chinese classical works systematically
compiled, provides an extremely valuable treasure for scholars on
Chinese studies.
To access this database, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click on 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title' select 'eBooks' and click 'Go'
> Click on 'Continue'
> Click the title (Hanyu Pinyin) in the alphabetical list
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With effect from 1 July 2002, access to Casetrack is no longer
provided by Oxford University Press. The service has been
transferred back to Smith Bernal WordWave. During this transfer
process, please complete the declaration
form for the username
and password to access Casetrack.
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An
Eclectic Mix: Reading List 2002
The newest Reading List covers a diverse assortment of
subjects, to whet the appetite and refresh the jaded palate for
reading.
Let your eye wander freely across our selection, to find a book
that will pique your curiosity, tickle your funny bone, and stir
your thirst for knowledge. Be it a light read for a quiet afternoon,
or weighty issues that may leave you musing for a long time after, An
Eclectic Mix has something for you.
We have arranged the books in alphabetical order, so that readers
will not be confined by the limits of subjects and categories in
their search for reading material. Be prepared to be amused,
intrigued or perhaps even shocked by what you find, both in our list
and in the books themselves.
The reading list is available online at:
http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/bib/vac2002.html
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Realis
now available via Digital Library |
We are pleased to announce that Realis is now available via Digital Library with effect from June 2002. Realis is produced by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore and contains statistical data on the real estate and property market in Singapore. Includes price and rental indices, stock and vacancy, supply in the pipeline, sales of residential and commercial property.
To access Realis, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Statistical Data'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) now available via Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is now available via Digital Library. ICPSR makes available datasets from various surveys and opinion polls carried out by various organizations. Topics covered include election studies, health, census of population, education, politics and social problems. Data are mostly for United States of America with some from Europe and Japan.
To access ICPSR, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Statistics'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list |
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This is a full text legal database provided by Smith Bernal and is sponsored by Oxford University Press (for academic users).
It provides judgments from the following courts (coverage of information varies for each court, some as early as from 1996) : Courts of Appeal (Criminal & Civil Divisions), Queen’s Bench Division (including Administrative Court/Crown Office List and Commercial Court), Chancery Division (including Patents Court and Revenue Court), Employment Appeals Tribunal.
The Court of Appeal and Administrative Court/Crown Office judgments are available from April 96 onwards. The High Court judgments are available from July 98 onwards. Searchable links to House of Lords judgments are available from November 1996 onwards.
This database is updated daily.
To access Casetrack, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Reference Databases'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list
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ISI
Essential Science Indicators now available via Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that ISI Essential Science Indicators is now available via the Digital Library.
ISI Essential Science Indicators helps users identify key scientific findings, measure research performance, and track significant trends in science.
It is the ideal source for conducting analyses of scientific literature and enables users to:
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Analyse research performance of companies, institutions, nations, and journals. |
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Identify significant trends in the sciences and social sciences. |
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Rank top countries, journals, scientists, papers, and institutions by the 22 fields of research covered. |
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Determine research output and impact in specific fields of research. |
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Evaluate potential employees, collaborators, reviews and peers. |
The information in ISI Essential Science Indicator is based on 10 years of data from the Web of Science with 10 million articles in nearly 8,500 journals from around the world.
To access ISI Essential Science Indicators, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Reference Databases'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list |
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ISI Proceedings and Journal Citation Reports on the Web now available via Digital Library |
The latest editions of ISSHP (Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings), ISTP (Index to Science and Technology Proceedings), and Journal Citation Report (both Science and Social Sciences editions) have been moved from CD-ROM to Digital Library.
The two proceedings are combined together in the new version as ISI Proceedings. The two editions of JCR are also combined together as Journal Citation Reports on the Web. Our subscriptions to ISI Proceedings and Journal Citation Reports on the Web begin in data year 2002 and 2000 respectively. The older editions of ISSHP and ISTP are still available in the Central Library and Science Library respectively. The older edition of JCR (both Science & Social Sciences) is still available in CD ROM via NUSNET.
To access these two databases, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Reference Databases'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list
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Factiva now available via Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that Factiva is now available via the Digital Library. Factiva combines the content sets from Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. In
addition to 8,000 full text sources (including major
newspapers from many countries) in 22 languages,
Factiva also contains quite comprehensive information of 26,000 companies from around the world. |
Note that Factiva will be replacing Dow Jones Interactive. DJI will be removed from Digital Library shortly.
To access Factiva, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Reference Databases'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list
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New Chinese Databases in Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that the following databases from the
Academia Sinica, Taiwan are now available online via the Digital
Library :
1. Shi san jing / 13 Classics
2. Zhu zi / Philosophical Texts
3. Gu ji shi ba zhong / 18 Ancient Texts
4. Gu ji san shi si zhong / 34 Ancient Texts
To access these databases, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click on ‘Digital Library’
> Under 'Browse by Title' select 'eBooks' and click 'Go'
> Click on 'Continue'
> The ebooks are listed alphabetically by their Hanyu Pinyin
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We are pleased to announce that ProQuest Reference Asia (Greater
China Module) is now available via the Digital Library. It
contains economic and business reference information about the nations of
Greater China. In a one-stop location it provides integrated access to a
broad range of governmental information sources covering national
government structures, processes and activities, supra-national
institutions and groupings, major corporations, and other civil,
financial and security organizations in the region. Information provided
includes news and current awareness sources, country information and
statistics, biographical and institutional directories, policy and
analytical materials.
To access the resource, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Reference Databases'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list
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New Electronic Books from Books24x7 |
We are pleased to announce that the library has subscribed to another major electronic book provider, Books24x7. The site contains more than 1,700 titles of books on databases, desktop & office applications, enterprise computing, graphic design, hardware, IT business, networks & protocols, operating systems, programming, and web development. Publishers include Macmillan Computer Publishing, O'Reilly, Osborne/McGraw Hill, Que, Sams and Sybex.
To access Books24x7 please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'eBooks'
> Click 'Continue'
> Under 'Browse eBooks by Publisher,' click 'Books24x7'
> Click 'Find books' when you are in the homepage of Books24x7
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United
Nations Treaty Collection now available via Digital Library |
We are pleased to announce that the United Nations Treaty Collection
is now available via the Digital Library. This collection includes ten categories of treaty-related data:
- Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General
- The United Nations Treaty Series
- Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties
- Photographs of Treaty Signature Ceremonies
- Titles of the Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN official languages
- Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties
- Treaty Handbook
- Monthly Statements of Treaties and International Agreements
- Depositary Notifications (CNs) by the Secretary-General
- Notes verbales from The Legal Counsel relating to the depositary practice and the registration of treaties pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter
To access the Treaty Collection, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Other References'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical list
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New version of SciFinder Scholar |
Please note that the new version of SciFinder Scholar - SciFinder
Scholar 2001 - is now available. To download SciFinder Scholar
2001, please click
here.
We recommend that you save the file in the same directory as your existing version of SciFinder Scholar.
After downloading SciFinder Scholar, go to your subdirectory and click the file 'sfs2001.exe'.
Accept all the defaults. It is not necessary to uninstall the old version of SciFinder Scholar.
With immediate effect, NUS staff and students will be able to pay their library fines via mobile devices. They can also arrange to be alerted by SMS when their accumulated fines exceeds $5. To subscribe to both services, please go to:
http://m-nus.nus.edu.sg
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Upgrade
of ABI/Inform Global to ABI/Inform Complete |
We are pleased to announce that our access to ABI/Inform Global has
been upgraded to ABI/Inform Complete.
ABI/Inform Complete is a comprehensive and well-used full text database of business, management, finance, accounting, economics, computer systems and information science, operations management, public administration international journal articles. It consists of 4 Proquest databases ABI/Inform Global, Dateline, Trade & Industry. ABI/Inform Global contains both academic and trade journals while Dateline and Trade & Industry covers American trade and industry journals.
These 3 databases index over 2400 journals. Of these, half of them are available in full text or full image. Full text coverage is available from 1991 for many of the journals. Backfiles of abstracts are also available from 1971. Updated daily.
To access ABI/Inform Complete please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Indexes & Abstracts'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical title list
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Off-Campus
Book Delivery/Collection Service |
With effect from now, the Library is extending the off-campus books delivery / collection service to all categories of members. This service allows members to request for library books to be delivered or collected from any location in mainland Singapore. The only fees payable are the postal charges which vary from $5 to $10 depending on the number of books.
For more information on this service, please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Electronic Forms for Library Services,' select your library
membership category
> Click on 'Request for Off-Campus Book Delivery/Collection Services'
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International
Index to Music Periodicals Full Text now available via the Digital
Library |
We are pleased to announce that the International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text is now available via the Digital Library.
To access this database please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Indexes & Abstracts'
> Click 'Continue'
> Click the title in the alphabetical title list.
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New
databases in the Digital Library |
The following databases have been moved from CDROM to the Digital Library:
- Art Abstracts
- Biography Index
- Current Biography
- Essay and General Literature Index
- Humanities Abstracts
- Library Literature and Information Science
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
- Social Sciences Abstracts
To access these resources please go to:
> NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
> Click 'Digital Library'
> Under 'Browse by Title', click 'Indexes & Abstracts' or 'Biographies' (for Current Biography)
> Click 'Continue'
> The databases are listed alphabetically by title
We are pleased to announce that with effect from 15 January 2002, library users are able to place holds online in LINC for books that are on order instead of having to wait for the book to arrive in the library.
Please click the 'Request' button in the upper frame of LINC to place a hold. When the book is ready for use the library will send you an email notification.
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