SciFinder Software as a Research Tool WISER Talk by Dr Karl Harrison Feb 2006 University of Oxford

SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Scholar 2006 to Access Chemical Abstracts - Chemistry JournalsChemistry Journals 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.

SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Scholar 2006 software (for PCs and Macs) can be downloaded locally from: The program has been configured for use from within Oxford University, and once downloaded and installed no further configuration or passwords are required.

Chemical databases CAplusCAplus: the world's most comprehensive database of chemical literature with over 26 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).patents Data from 1907, updated daily. About 14,000 records added every week. CAS monitors 9000 journals from around the world; for 1500 core chemical journals all articles as well as book reviews, letters, news, editorials etc. are included.1500 core chemical journals CAplus includes biochemistry, organic chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, applied chemistry and chemical engineering, physical, inorganic, and analytical chemistry references: currently can only search bibliographic info & abstracts, not structural data The Sections of Chemical AbstractsThe Sections of Chemical Abstracts - shows the breadth of CA subject coverage

Chemical databases CAS RegistryCAS Registry: more than 84 million substances, (incl. over 27 million organic and inorganic substances and 57 million biosequences; latest substance counts here)latest substance counts here can be searched by name, molecular formula, structure or substructure.

Chemical databases CASREACTCASREACT: reaction database, with over 10.3 million single- and multi-step reactions, taken from more than 580,000 journal articles and patents. Data from 1840; updated weekly. CHEMCATSCHEMCATS: Commercial availability information for over 8.9 million products, from more than 700 suppliers' catalogues.

Chemical databases CHEMLISTCHEMLIST: Regulated Chemicals Listing - contains over 239,000 chemical substances on national and international chemical inventories and regulatory lists; updated weekly. MEDLINEMEDLINE - a biomedicine database; data from 1958

Search/Explore by Research TopicResearch Topic - to find literature on a topic of interest use a natural language sentence to describe your search topic Results organized by clusters 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 NameAuthor Name - to find literature written by a specific author Company / Organization nameCompany / Organization name - to find literature written by authors at a specific location Chemical nameChemical name, exact chemical structure, chemical substructure, chemical reactions, molecular formulae or CAS Registry Numbers - to find literature on specific chemical substances, substructures or reactions.exact chemical structurechemical substructurechemical reactions

SciFinder Scholar Resources Substructure Searching Reaction Searching Polymer Searching Biosequence SearchingBiosequence Searching - searching for Proteins, Nucleic acids and Enzymes Searching for Medical / Bioscience topics

Chemistry Support Web Pages About SciFinder Interactive tutorial for SciFinder Scholar Importing References into EndNote from SciFinder Scholar / Chemical Abstracts Comparison of Features and retrieval rates