NEW SERVICE ALERTS SCIENCEDIRECT SUBSCRIBERS.ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is one of the largest online collections of published scientific research in the world. Produced by Elsevier it contains over 8.5 million articles from over 2000 journals, including titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron , provider of the world's largest electronic database of scientific, technical and medical information, has introduced a new alerting service A service provided to notify appropriate organizations regarding aircraft in need of search and rescue aid, and assist such organizations as required. for subscribers--Saved Search Alerts. The new service enables subscribers to receive an email "alert" when new material is added to the ScienceDirect database that matches a search profile. Saved Search Alerts is the newest feature in a growing list of personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. services that include Saved Search and Personal Journals List. Saved Search Alerts builds on the Saved Search feature in ScienceDirect where users can save one or multiple search queries on the ScienceDirect database and run the search query against new material as it is added to the database. With the alerting feature, users can now request email notification, on a daily or weekly basis, of new information that matches their search. Librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. or other end users will be able to access the last 30 days of results for up to 10 defined Alerts at any time from the Alert page. "The new alerting service is designed to improve the convenience and functionality of ScienceDirect with personalization features to meet our users' individual research needs while utilizing push technology to deliver up-to-date ScienceDirect information right to the desktop," states Daviess Menefee, Director of ScienceDirect. Saved Search Alerts is one of several features being developed as part of the scientific, technical and medical journal publisher's focus on providing a customer-driven electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. platform. ScienceDirect recently completed phase two of an implementation of EMTREE, the frequently requested EMBASE Thesaurus. Other feature and functionality enhancements are planned for future releases of the product. Platform for Scientific Information ScienceDirect currently offers its subscribers desktop access to the full text of more than 1,040 journals published in the scientific, technical and medical fields. Extending the power of this collection will be journals from ASM (1) (Association for Systems Management) An international membership organization based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1947 and disbanded in 1996, it sponsored conferences in all phases of administrative systems and management. International, CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. Press and the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, among other publishers. In addition, subscribers may select among a variety of separately licensed secondary databases such as EMBASE, Ei's Compendex, and Beilstein ScienceDirect(R) is part of the Reed Elsevier plc group, the world's largest scientific, technical and medical publisher and the leading provider of information to the STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. , legal and business communities. For more information, call 212/462-1980. |
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