Scifinder Scholar 2006 Information Session

Scifinder Scholar 2006 Information Session

April 10, 2007Elizabeth Brown

ebrown@binghamton.edu

(607)777-4882

Science Library 102A

Scifinder Scholar

• Indexes chemical research in universities, national labs, and chemical industry

• Contains journal articles, conference proceedings papers, and patents

• Over 23 million documents are indexed from 9,000 chemistry and chemistry-related journals

• Covers research from 1907 to the present in Chemistry, Chemical Technology, Biochemistry, Materials Science

• Published by Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Scifinder Scholar

Contains:• Chemical Abstracts – chemistry journal

literature• Medline – medical journal literature • CAS Registry: 24 million organic and inorganic

substances, 50 million genetic sequences• Casreact: 8 million single and multi-step reactions• Chemcats: catalogs of commercially available chemicals

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II. Explore by Research Topic

III. Analyzing Results

IV. Explore by Author Name

V. Explore by Chemical Structure

VI. Locate by Bibliographic Information

VII. Printing and Saving Results

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II. Analyze Results

Analyze Results

III. Explore by Author Name

IV. Explore by Chemical Structure

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V. Locate by Bibliographic Information

VI. Printing and Saving Results

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