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Ian Gordon

CHEM 2P20

SciFinder

ExerciseHappyPearl Jacobson, Science Librarian,

Carleton University

Enter your brock authentication username & password, not mine…

Accept and fill in the form, click register and wait for an

Email authentication, takes 15 minutes…

Click on SciFinder link and follow through with

Brock authentication and your SciFinder username

and password, works well on campus, should work

well off campus, need to sign in every time…

Click on Explore and Author Name or click under

References the Author Name tab. This is the default

SciFinder first screen, every time.

Don’t forget to screen capture your name tag in the

top right hand corner and paste into the assignment.

This proves you have a SciFinder account with

your own name.

Remember back at the faculty home page

list of publications, check to see what the researcher

uses for their common initials and/or first name.

You know the last name spelling so don’t use the “Look

for alternate spellings…” option. If you’re doing

Tony then he uses his Anglicized name. All others

use a first and sometimes a second initial…put in a

first initial for searching as above.

You pick out all the names of individuals that

make sense, you can then limit after clicking

Get References to Analyze by: Company-

Organization being Brock University with the

next screen, there is no one standard for

Personal names, although ORCiD is coming soon

to SciFinder, do you have an ORCiD ID number?

If not get one…

It’s not a perfect science, but if you need to know

authors and research groups, you can’t guess and

need to make sure you’ve got their names right.

Notice the numbers you need to track for the assignment.

Analyze and Refine are similar, analyze

does the numbers and then asks if you want to complete

it, Refine just does it…

Note the breadcrumbs on top, this tracks the search strategy

and resulting limits, you can back track to get several

numbers, but I’d suggest you do each search separately so

that you are working with the same author set.

Analyze by many different ways including

Database. SciFinder searches both Chemical Abstracts and

MEDLINE/PubMed at the same time. There is overlap, but

there are many unique publications in either databases. Again

you need to know and check this out when doing research…

Refine by Document Type and select Journal…

Grab the resulting number.

Get Substances, click all knowing you can make any

further limiting choices, very powerful, click Get, then

the number, should be large…

For question 6 you need to select preparation, then review results…

For question 6 these are the results, you can analyze and/or refine

and sort by any number of functions. I’d suggest sorting by Number

of References, then browse down past the common inorganics, water,

benzene… to find an organic compound that has more than 500 hits

and a commercial supplier noted by the red flask…

For question 6 browse and pick the organic chemical that looks interesting

and has a larger number, I like this one below… click on the number

header – e.g. 58479-61-1 you can always then take this structure, adjust it,

set parameters, then find compounds and related articles… a big search

strategy for chemists, especially organic chemists…

For question 6 browse and pick the organic chemical that looks interesting

and has a larger number, I like this one below… click on the number

header – e.g. 58479-61-1 you can always then take this structure, adjust it,

set parameters, then find compounds and related articles… a big search

strategy for chemists, especially organic chemists… numbers, names and

formulas listed on this page… grab the structure and add to question 6.

For question 7, search author, refine by document type, then journal, etc.

then when seeing results click on Get Reactions…

For question 7 you can analyze or refine or sort several different ways.

You can also click on reactions and then modify searches until you find what

you want/like. Click on View Reaction Detail to find citation. Every reaction

is linked to a citation as per the following screen.

For question 7 citation information is on the right. To find the full text

you click on “Link to Other Sources.” This can be challenging

as you can’t tell until you find the full text / PDF whether we own it. If that

doesn’t work click on the Source link on the right and then find the citation

and click away…

To export the citation to a citation management system e.g. Papers, Mendeley,

Zotero, etc. click on Export, open your program, create a file folder,

and then click away.

Click export and the citation will fly into your citation management system

so that you can create citations/bibliographies with any citation style e.g.

ACS at any time. All this is free, a huge timesaver and certainly worth

exploring for other assignments, papers and stuff.

This is what a citation management system report look like, Zotero,

You’d use this to create a bibliography or perform write-and-cite in

Word, fyi.

Use any of the listed quick guides, or do it manually cribbing

from an example. Click on “here” above to see a list of citation

management systems as other quick tools listed usually don’t push

ACS style, maybe one day…

Comment: One thing you learned about the nature of organic chemistry research through this exercise?

Comment: One thing you learned about SciFinder and chemical information through this exercise?

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CHEM 2P20

SciFinder

ExerciseHappyPearl Jacobson, Science Librarian,

Carleton University

Ian Gordon igordon@Brocku.ca