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Installing SciFinder 2007 from the CD-ROM
CD-ROMs available at E&S Library Reference Desk and MI Library Office

This software will work from any CMU on-campus site. If you are accessing the Internet from off-campus or you are using wireless on campus, you must use the Cisco VPN client to access SciFinder 2007. Instructions for setting up the Cisco VPN client and registering your computer can be found at:

http://www.library.cmu.edu/Services/remote.html

• Windows Version
• Mac Version

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Windows Version

The installation process consists of three steps on any Windows PC. Follow all three steps if you are installing it for the first time or if you have removed the old version. If you are installing it on top of the old version of SciFinder, then you don't have to follow Step 1 and Step 2.

1. Create a folder in the root directory (C):

• Right-click the Start menu on the taskbar.
• Choose Explore.
• Scroll up and choose local disk C.
• Anywhere on the right side of the Local Disk window, right-click your mouse and choose New and then choose folder. That will create a folder called New Folder.
• Click "New Folder" and choose Rename. Now the "New Folder" is highlighted. Type Scifinder. Now you have renamed the "New Folder" to "Scifinder."
• Remember the location and name of this folder: Scifinder [in the C directory].)

2. Copy Site.prf key to "Scifinder" folder:

• Stay in Windows Explorer.
• Double-click on your CD-ROM drive.
• Copy Site.prf key (located on the CD-ROM) to the newly-created Scifinder folder (just drag and drop the file into the Scifinder folder).

3. Install program in the "Scifinder" folder:

• Double-click the CD-ROM drive.
• You will see three files (Sfs2006.exe, readme, and Site.prf)
• Double-click SFS2006.exe.
• In the Scifinder Scholar window, click Setup. The installer will unzip all the files and begin to install Scifinder on your PC.
• In the Choose Destination Folder, click Browse, and choose the Scifinder folder in the C drive (the folder that you just created and into which you copied the Site.prf file).
• Click Next and it will start to install the software.
• When it asks “Do you have a disk labeled custom site files”, click No and go to next.
• It will take few minutes and prompt you “Do you want to install Scifinder Scholar toolbar now”, click yes and follow the defaults until you see it is successfully installed.
• Click Finish or check “test connection” to test the connectivity with the databases.

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Mac Version

SciFinder Scholar for Mac OS X (10.2, 10.3 and 10.4)

• Download SciFinder Scholar scholar-osx.dmg (a Macintosh Disk Image File) to your desktop or a download folder on your OS X drive.
• Double-click scholar-osx.dmg to mount SciFinder Scholar (a Desktop Volume containing the SciFinder Scholar Application Package).
• Open the SciFinder Scholar Volume, if it does not auto-open.
• Drag and drop the SciFinder Scholar Application Package (~21.9 MB) to your applications folder.
• Double-click Scifinder in the applications folder by holding the Ctrl-key and go to Show Package Contents and copy the site.prf file from the CD-ROM to the Macos X/Scifinder Scholar folder.
• Eject (Unmount) the desktop SciFinder Scholar Volume.
• (Optional) Create a "SciFinder Scholar" alias for your dock or desktop.

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Contact Us | Site Map | Comments   August 23, 2007 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Search/DB/InstallScifinder2007.html    Diane Covington, Chemistry and Biology Librarian, Mellon Institute Library, dianec@andrew.cmu.edu   © 2007 Carnegie Mellon Libraries