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3. Definition
SciFinder Scholar is a Z39.50 Windows-based interface that provides easy
access to the rich and diverse scientific information contained in the CAS
databases including Chemical Abstracts from 1907 onwards.
The SciFinder Scholar offers a variety of pathways to explore CAS databases as
well as MEDLINE.
SciFinder Scholar interface provides the most accurate and comprehensive
chemical and related scientific information including: journal articles and
patents together in one source, substance data, chemical reactions, chemical
regulatory data, chemical suppliers and biomedical literature.
SciFinder Scholar covers not only chemistry but also Agriculture, Biology and
Life Sciences, Engineering, Food, Geology, Medical, Physics, Polymer and
Material Sciences.
4. Overview
References from more than 10, 000 currently published
journals and patents from more than 63 patent authorities.
Important scientific discoveries from the present to the
mid – 1800s.
The worlds largest collection of organic and inorganic
substance information.
The latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they
are published with references added daily and some patent
information as recent as 2 days ago.
5. Scifinder content
SciFinder Scholar gives you access to:
30 million abstracts in CA plus
17 million abstracts in medline
103 million organic/inorganic substances
16 million single/multi step reactions
29 million substances with commercial availability
1.1 Billion Predicted and experimental properties
IR and NMR and 23 million predicted spectra.
246,000 regulated chemical inventories
7. Features and Benefits
Access to current, high quality scientific information.
Links to more relevant journal articles and patent
documents than any other source.
Content indexed by scientists
Time savings, with speedy access to more than a
century of scientific information.
A novel approach to problem solving by linking related
concepts.
8. When you open SciFinder Scholar, the first thing you see is the “Explore” menu. You
have 6 different choices of how to search for articles.
9. SciFinder:
Uses ‘natural’ language searching
I am looking for the effect of aspirin on blood clotting
separate key concepts with prepositions
prepositions are translated into the Boolean
aspirin on blood clotting is better than
aspirin blood clotting
if only a space separates words, the system will consider the words to be
part of a phrase
10. searching authors in scifinder:
type a surname and initial, select all possible forms of a name.
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18. Conclusions
SciFinder makes it easy to locate chemical synthesis
information in a variety of ways, depending on your needs.
It then lets you explore synthetic pathways as well as
quickly and easily navigate among
reference, substance, reaction, and commercial source
information.
SciFinder can help to increase the overall effectiveness of
your searching, as well as your accuracy, efficiency, and
productivity and it is an effective tool for accessing
important information for teaching and academic research.
SciFinder is an essential part of the chemical synthesis
research process.
19. Reference
Rosenstein, I. J. (2005). A Literature exercise using Scifinder
Scholar for the Sophmore Level Organic Chemistry. Journal of
Chemical Education, 652.
Wagner, A. B. (2006). Scifinder Scholar 2006 : An Empirical
Analysis of research Topic Query and Processing. Journal od
Chemical Information Model, 767-774.
Wilson, Anne M.s (2002). Utilization of Scifinder Scholar at an
Undergraduate Institution. Journal of Chemical Education, 524.
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http://www.cas.org/etrain/scifinder/introref.html
