SciFinder Scholar 2004 to Access Chemical Abstracts

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SciFinder Scholar 2004toAccess Chemical
Abstracts

• Talk by Karl Harrison
• Sept 2004 University of Oxford

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SciFinder Scholar

• SciFinder Scholar is easy to install, is designed
  to be used by practicing chemists, and has an
  inbuilt HELP system.
• The current subscription allows up to 7
  simultaneous users from Oxford University to use
  the SciFinder Scholar software to search the
  Chemical Abstracts databases.

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SciFinder Scholar

• SciFinder Scholar 2004 software (for PCs and
  Macs) can be downloaded locally from
  http//www.chem.ox.ac.uk/CAS/.
• The program has been configured for use from
  within Oxford University, and once downloaded and
  installed no further configuration or passwords
  are required.

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Chemical databases

• CAplus the world's most comprehensive database
  of chemical literature with over 22.5 million
  records (as well as journal articles and patents,
  includes Conference proceedings, Technical
  reports, Books, Dissertations, Reviews, Meeting
  abstracts, Electronic-only journals and Web
  preprints).
• Data from 1907, updated daily.
• About 14,000 records added every week. CAS
  monitors 8000 journals from around the world for
  1610 core chemical journals all articles as well
  as book reviews, letters, news, editorials etc.
  are included.
• CAplus includes biochemistry, organic chemistry,
  macromolecular chemistry, applied chemistry and
  chemical engineering, physical, inorganic, and
  analytical chemistry.
• 1907 - 1966 references currently can only search
  bibliographic info abstracts, not structural
  data
• Future plans add substance information for
  pre-1967 references
• The Sections of Chemical Abstracts - shows the
  breadth of CA subject coverage

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Chemical databases

• CAS Registry more than 56 million substances,
  (incl. over 24 million organic and inorganic
  substances and 47 million biosequences latest
  substance counts here)
• can be searched by name, molecular formula,
  structure or substructure.

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Chemical databases

• CASREACT reaction database, with over 5.6
  million single- and multi-step reactions, taken
  from more than 280,000 journal articles and
  patents. Data from 1974 updated weekly.
• CHEMCATS Commercial availability information for
  over 3.7 million products, from more than 700
  suppliers' catalogues.

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Chemical databases

• CHEMLIST Regulated Chemicals Listing - contains
  over 226,000 chemical substances on national and
  international chemical inventories and regulatory
  lists updated weekly.
• MEDLINE - a biomedicine database data from 1958

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Search/Explore by

• Research Topic - to find literature on a topic of
  interest
• use a natural language sentence to describe your
  search topic
• you can select only those references which
  contain your topic exactly as entered
• otherwise SciFinder's inbuilt 'intelligence'
  automatically includes alternative spellings,
  synonyms, abbreviations and truncated word forms
• Author Name - to find literature written by a
  specific author
• Company / Organization name - to find literature
  written by authors at a specific location
• Chemical name, exact chemical structure, chemical
  substructure, chemical reactions, molecular
  formulae or CAS Registry Numbers - to find
  literature on specific chemical substances,
  substructures or reactions.

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SciFinder Scholar Resources

• Substructure Searching
• Reaction Searching
• Polymer Searching
• Biosequence Searching - searching for Proteins,
  Nucleic acids and Enzymes
• Searching for Medical / Bioscience topics