Infotrieve Offers Pre-Release of Article Finder

The official release is the first quarter of next year, but if you're a periodical research junkie you might want to check out the pre-release version of Infotrieve's new article finder -- you can get to it at http://www4.infotr ieve.com/search/ArticleFinder.asp .

The press release mentions that the full release will have over 500 e-journal publications in its database, but I don't know what the pre-release version has. Searching for hypothyroid and adrenal found 4 results (hypothyroid search found almost 900 results.) One twist; phrases are denoted with single quotes or the syntax ADJ, not double quotes. So

synthetic ADJ hormone or 'synthetic hormone'

will each find only a few results. "synthetic hormone", on the other hand, will ignore the double quotes and act like the query synthetic OR hormone (you'll get over 30,000 results) so watch your step.

Once you've found appropriate results, you can link to a bibliographic record, the table of contents of the journal in which an article is featured, and a link to the entry at PubList!

Unfortunately I can't tell you how the ordering procedure went. Every time I tried to order an article I got a "the parameter is incorrect" error. Well, I suppose it's not the official release for a reason. The search facility works fine, anyway, so you can get an idea of what materials are available from ArticleFinder.

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