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

Scifinder Searching

I. New Task

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

I. New Task

II. Explore by Research Topic

• Select Explore• Select Research Topic

Explore by Research Topic - Filter

Topic Candidates

Viewing Results

II. Analyze Results

Analyze Results

III. Explore by Author Name

IV. Explore by Chemical Structure

Explore by Chemical Structure

Explore by Chemical Structure

V. Locate by Bibliographic Information

VI. Printing and Saving Results

Printing Results

Saving Results

Saving Results