Thursday, March 18, 2010

New database: Pubget

The UH Manoa Library is now an active institution in Pubget, a search engine for PDFs in the life sciences. It indexes nearly 20 million life science research documents, including those in PubMed and arXiv.

When you search Pubget, it immediately delivers the PDF of all articles available to you via the Library. If an article is not electronically available via the Library, it provides you with other options for finding the article.

Click here to start searching Pubget

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

ScienceDirect outage this weekend

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, March 13, starting at 5:30 p.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 2 a.m. HST Sunday. The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.