Library Services and Research Support Briefing

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Library Services and Research Support Briefing

• Dr Barry Dunne
• Regional Marketing Manager
• bdunne_at_cas.org

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Overview

• Who is CAS?
• How SciFinder Scholar helps you to access
  scientific information
• SciFinder Scholar features
• Training resources

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SciFinder Scholar is produced by CAS, a division
of the American Chemical Society

• Indexes and summarises chemistry-related
  information from scientific journals, patents,
  conference proceedings, and other pertinent
  documents
• Produces the worlds largest and most
  comprehensive databases of chemical and related
  scientific information

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SciFinder Scholar is an easy to use research tool

• Uses conversational language
• Offers a point and click interface
• Smart searching
• Structure searchable
• Provides links to journal articles and patent
  documents
• Updated daily
• Available for 24 hour access

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Diverse content is aggregated from many sources
into curated databases
CAS REGISTRY
CA Family 
CASREACT 
CAS Scientists
CHEMCATS
CHEMLIST 
CIN
MARPAT
ToxcenterSM
The CA Family is comprised of CA, CAplusSM and
CAOLD
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SciFinder Scholar selects databases for you so
you can start searching right away!

• CAplus
• CAS REGISTRY
• CASREACT
• CHEMCATS
• CHEMLIST
• MEDLINE

These databases are working behind the scenes,
providing data for your researchproject,
depending on the task that youare performing
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CAplus

• Bibliographic database from 1907 to present, with
  more than 29 million records
• gt130,000 records from before 1907
• Covers gt10,000 international scientific journals,
  patents, books, conference proceedings,
  dissertations, and more
• Covers many scientific disciplines, including
  biological biomedical sciences, chemistry and
  engineering
• Updated daily with 4,000 references

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CAS REGISTRY

• Worlds largest authoritative chemical substance
  database
• gt35 million organic and inorganic substances
• 60 million protein and nucleic acid sequences
• Each substance is assigned a CAS Registry Number
• Updated daily with 12,000 new substance records

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CASREACT

• Organic reactions database
• Document-based database containing nearly 15
  million single- and multi-step reactions from
  journals and patents
• Structure searchable
• Updated weekly with 600-1,300 new reactions

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CHEMCATS

• Catalogue and chemical library database
• Contains information on commercially available
  chemicals and worldwide suppliers
• gt1,025 catalogues
• gt900 suppliers
• Updated as new catalogues are received

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CHEMLIST

• Regulated Chemicals Listing
• Identifies substances from more than 100
  inventories and regulatory lists from around the
  world
• Updated weekly

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MEDLINE

• Bibliographic biomedical and clinical science
  information database
• Produced by the National Library of Medicine
• Covers 1950 to present
• Updated five times per week

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All this data supports your chemical research

• gt1 billion experimental and predicted properties
• gt14 million single- and multi-step reactions
• Ability to do structure searching
• Easily access millions of abstracts, organic and
  inorganic substances, and reactions

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and also life sciences research

• Comprehensive databases provide extensive
  scientific information obtained from public
  publications and patents
• Scientific information from top journals
• Cell, Science, Nature, Molecular Cell, etc
• Published patents in areas such as proteomics,
  biological methods, drug formulations, biofuels,
  cosmetics, etc
• Relationship between diseases, biological
  processes, and proteins

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SciFinder Scholar offers convenient searching
features

• Explore
• by Research Topic
• by Author
• by Company or organisation
• by Substance or chemical name
• by Reaction
• Browse the table of contents of journals
• Locate and link to references and substances of
  interest

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SciFinder Scholar features

• Sort, analyze, or refine search results
• Publication year, company name, document type,
  etc
• Conduct citation searching and linking
• Options for obtaining full-text patents or
  journal articles utilising ChemPort
• Print results in different formats
• Obtain current information on commercially
  available chemicals and their worldwide suppliers

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SciFinder Scholar has robust structure and
reaction features

• Ability to draw or modify a chemical structure
  using the structure drawing window
• Find reactions and develop a synthesis plan or
  find retrosyntheses
• Explore by substructure and its stereochemistry

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SciFinder Scholar license agreement provides
guidelines for proper use

• Use for any academic research
• Prohibits use for commercial purposes

SciFinder Scholar is for academic use
SciFinder is for commercial and government use
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SciFinder Scholar training resources

• CAS SciFinder e-Seminars
• http//casevents.webex.com
• How To Guides
• SciFinder Strategies
• SciFinder Scholar Getting Started Guide
• http//www.cas.org/support/academic/sf/i
  ndex.html

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SciFinder covers many fields
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from many top scientists
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SciFinder is moving to the web
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Why use SciFinder Scholar?

• Enables faculty and students to spend more time
  on their research and save time on literature
  searching
• Contains the most comprehensive databases of
  up-to-date publications
• Has easy to use search functions with built-in
  smart searching
• Has ability to draw and modify chemical
  structures in order to search for information on
  a specific compound or reaction

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18/20 subscribe to SciFinder Scholar
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• Any questions?