Tuesday, September 21, 2010
NJIT will keep the Desktop Version of Scifinder Scholar until June 30, 2011
About 3 weeks ago I polled NJIT users of Scifinder Scholar to see if they wanted to keep the desktop version until June 30 when Chemical Abstracts Service would discontinue it. To be fair I did not vote to leave the choice to my users. I was hoping that they would want to transition to the web version earlier. Only 15 of the 300 people who registered for a Scifinder account bothered to vote. I must assume that most used the database very infrequently or just were indifferent. 9 out of the 15 voted to keep the desktop version as soon as possible. I am disappointed since they don't want to take advantage of the useful features that Chemical Abstracts introduced to the web version.
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