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AGENDA CAS Why SciFinder Process Overview Advantages Of SciFinder Scholar Questions
Chemical Abstracts & SciFinder Started as Indexing and Abstracting service in 1907 Earlier known as Chemical Abstracts (CA) in its print version An ideal example for Library Science students and professionals to study evolution of CA to current version SciFinder.
Librarian Support Many Libraries with print CA have taken active role in helping users in searching various indexes of CA and helped them to locate right information quickly. This support and training still needed for SciFinder
Chemical Abstracts Service Why SciFinder (CA) is different? CA needs more than 600 scientists with PhDs with specialization in various fields to complete indexing
Why professional indexing is needed? Try and search uses of below substance in full-text journals. (1,2 diphenyl guanidine)
Why SciFinder? Content – much more than author abstracts Indexing with Intellectual analysis publications Covers Non English journals and patents Search reactions and substances Concept based searching Currency
Why SciFinder? Content Indexing with Intellectual analysis publications Covers Non English journals and patents Search reactions and substances Concept based searching Currency
CAPLUS ( Reference Database ) CAS REGISTRY ( Substance Database) CHEMREACT (Reaction Database) CHEMCATS (Suppliers Information) CHEMLIST (Registered substance information) MEDLINE (biomedical database) Created for Scientists by Scientists Databases
SciFinder Scholar Coverage > 10,500 Journals 51 Patent Issuing Authorities Conference Proceedings Technical Reports Book Reviews Dissertations
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. SciFinder Content
Why SciFinder? Content Indexing with Intellectual analysis publications Covers Non English journals and patents Search reactions and substances Concept based searching Currency
Indexing Process Overview
Why SciFinder? Content Indexing with Intellectual analysis publications Covers Non English journals and patents Search reactions and substances Concept based searching Currency
All Languages Covered Search and read Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German, French ….. Journals and patents in English Russia Brazil Japan France Germany Austria Turkey Holland Korea Switzerland Spain Canada
Why SciFinder? Content Indexing with Intellectual analysis publications Covers Non English journals and patents Search reactions and substances Concept based searching Currency
Structure Searching
Why SciFinder? Content Indexing with Intellectual analysis publications Covers Non English journals and patents Search reactions and substances Concept based searching Currency
Concept Based Results SciFinder Scholar adds related technical terms in your search and gives comprehensive results based on concepts. For example, if your key word is “Solar Cell”, you will also get answers where term used is “photovoltaic cells” or “solar battery”
Why SciFinder? Content Indexing with Intellectual analysis publications Covers Non English journals and patents Search reactions and substances Concept based searching Currency
Daily Updated SciFinder Scholar is updated daily with approximately 3,000 new patent and journal references. Daily 4000 new substances are added to the databases.
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