Uniworld Business Directories now available

Two business directories published by Uniworld are now available to the Stony Brook University community. Foreign Firms Operating in the United States and American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries provide global contact information for American businesses with offices abroad and foreign firms with offices in the United States. Updated annually, 190 countries and 130,000 companies are included.

Cambridge Histories Online

Available on a trial basis until Friday, October 17th, Cambridge Histories Online includes 64 titles and over 250 volumes in the Cambridge history series published since 1960. Among the titles included are The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (4 volumes), Economic History of Europe (8 volumes), History of Science (4 volumes), History of Literary Criticism (8 volumes), and the New Cambridge History of India (21 volumes). The entire collection can be searched together, or searches can be restricted to broad subject groupings or to individual volumes.

JSTOR PDF/ Mac Preview problem fixed

JSTOR reports that they have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility between JSTOR PDF files and older versions of Mac Preview. This problem caused only part of the article to be viewable in Preview. The fix released today means that JSTOR PDF files should now be viewable in their entirety in Preview 3.0.9 (the current version integrated with Mac OS 10.4) as well as newer versions integrated with Mac OS 10.5.

Users of Preview 3.0.9 should note, however, that the page images of articles are usually highly compressed to save file size, and may be slow to open on this version of Preview. It is believed that this is a limitation of Preview that Apple corrected in the version of Preview shipped with Mac OS 10.5.

Biological Abstracts on Web of Knowledge

From now until November 8th, Biological Abstracts will be available on the familiar Web of Knowledge platform. You can search the database simultaneously with Web of Science, or search it directly by going to the "Select a Database" tab. Biological Abstracts continues to be available on the OVID platform.

JSTOR PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview

The following was recently announced by JSTOR. If you are having trouble seeing all the pages in a downloaded PDF document, this may solve your problem:

Certain versions of Mac Preview are incompatible with the newest generation of JSTOR PDFs. For some users, this means that only the cover page is displaying. Other users have reported that the downloaded article appears to be missing the first portion of the article—it begins somewhere after the first 10 pages of the article. The article is in fact intact and complete, but some pages are not displayed properly. JSTOR is working to fix this and plans to continue to support the use of Preview with JSTOR PDFs.

For now, the quickest workaround is to download the latest free copy of Adobe Reader, available on the Adobe web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html

Once Adobe Reader is downloaded, please check to make sure that the default PDF viewer is set to Adobe Reader rather than the original PDF viewer installed on your Mac.

The default viewer for PDF documents in Mac OS X is Preview. To change the file association for PDF files:

• Select any PDF file and choose File > Get Info.

• Choose the application that you want to open PDF files from the Open With menu.

• Click Change All, and then click Continue.

You will also want to make sure that the popup blocker is turned off for the JSTOR site. The new PDF files are set to open in a new window and popup blockers may affect this.