1. SciFinder: Part of the Process Web Interface
Ian Cho
CAS Representative- Korea
SciFinder User Training
2010

2. SciFinder Contents ▶ Introduction of CAS ▶ Introduction of SF
▶ Contents of SF DB
▶ Explore SF

3. CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society
ACS is a not-for-profit society of more than 130 years
the largest scientific society, with nearly 163,000 members
a mission “to encourage the increase and diffusion of chemical knowledge” for the benefit of industry and education
ACS Headquarters,
Washington, D.C.
The ACS is chartered by the US Congress, and CAS’s goal to serve the scientific information needs of both industry and academia is a key component of that charter.
We offer specially tailored information services to universities for educational purposes, and these come with discounts of as much as 90% off the full commercial prices. In this way, over the years, CAS has contributed millions of dollars to support the education of tomorrow’s scientists.

4. CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service)
American Chemical Society
In 1876
NewYork
35members
Washington D.C.
(Headquarters) 163,000members
130years
1907년 설립되어 90년간이상 출판을 해왔고 컴퓨터에 기반을 둔 자료는 1960년대 부터 시작 되었습니다.
Division
In 1907
Chemical Abstracts Service(columbus)
Monitoring,Abstracting&Indexing

5. CAS moved to its present location in 1965
New Data Center
2001
CAS occupies three buildings on a 52 acre site.

6. Our data center is the "nerve center" for online users worldwide and enables them to search CAS data

7. CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service)
Our mission is to create the world’s best digital environment to search, retrieve, analyze and link chemical information

8. What is SciFinder? SciFinder
SciFinder, a research discovery tool that allow you to access the world’s largest collection of biochemical, chemical engineering, medical, and other related information.
You can explore one single source for scientific information in journals and patent literature from around the world.
Publisher : CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service)
Area : Science
Coverage : 1907 to Present
Data type : Bibliographic & Abstracts (※Patents)

9. 연구자에게 SciFinder가 왜? 필요한가???
The research results are significant
과학 분야에서 14년 이상 연구한 과학자
SciFinder 1년 이상 사용한 과학자
250명 대상으로 표본조사
(2/3:North America, 1/3:Europe Scientist)

10. Survey Results SciFinder Improved Productivity 연구정보 수집에 시간절약 (96%)
주어진 시간안에 많은 정보 제공 (80%)
관련 연구정보의 빠른 접근 (90%)
High Quality Information
최신정보 제공 (95%)
SciFinder가 연구분야의 최고 정보 제공 (90%)
Improved Creative Process
SciFinder 사용중 추가 연구정보 발견 (84%)
과거의 연구수행중 빠진 부분 발견 (90%)
SF 사용전 발생한 문제에 대해 해결 (67%)
문제해결 능력과 창의적 연구 수행 ( 67%)
Easy Access to Information
과학기술 정보에 가장 쉽게 정보 접근 (95%)
다른 On-Line DB보다 용이한 정보이용 (67%)
연구원들에게 성공적인 연구업적 수행 (75%)

11. analysis CAS Scientists
CAS Editorial Scientists analyze more than 10,000 journals and patents from 60 patent offices to index new chemical information
analysis
CAS RN
CAS RN
CAS Scientists
Somatotropin
Animal gene pac43
Oncogenes pac43
Neoplam inhibitors
Liver neoplasm

12. CAS scientists build databases and make them accessible to fellow scientists and information professionals around the world
caffeine
bioactive
CAS RN
CAS
scientists
Searchable
entity
Original
publications
Scientific
research
We acquire scientific research via original publications and through the efforts of our chemists we create searchable entities – like cas connection tables in CAS Registry or index entries to a document – which aare accessed via tools like STN and SciFinder.
Monitor literature from over 9,000 journals
Cover patents from over 48 active issuing patent authorities
Abstract and index, in English, documents originally published in 50 languages
Serve scientists in more than 100 countries
Scientists &
Information
Professionals

13. CAS analysis reveals information in a patent from Korea
BIBLIOGRAPHIC
DATA
INDEXING
ANALYSIS
Preparation of E. coli variant
stains with inhibited formation
of biofilm by deleting markerless
linear DNA fragment.
Genetic engineering
Antibiotic resistance
Genetic vectors
CAS RN

14. Our more than 1300 staff members include hundreds of scientists and IT professionals

15. Databases of SciFinder
Reference DB
CA Plus
MEDLINE
Substance DB
CA Registry
Reaction DB
CAS React
Specialized DB
CHEMLIST
CHEMCATS

16. SciFinder ▶ Reference DB - CA PLUS ▶ Reference DB - Medline
A CAS literature database containing references to research published in journals of Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Medical, patents of 60 patent office in the world and other sources
Coverage : 1907 to Present
Source Title : Over 10,000 Journals
Contents : Over 32 Million records
Update : Daily over 3,000 records
▶ Reference DB - Medline
A literature database containing references to Medical research published in journals
Coverage : to Present
Source Title : Over 4,800 Journals
Contents : Over 18 Million references
Update : 5 times per week

17. SciFinder ▶ Substance DB – CAS Registry ▶ Reaction DB – CAS React
Substance Database containing CAS RN, Structures, Chemical Names, Properties, Sequences
Coverage : 1957 to Present
Contents : Over 113 Million substances
Update : Daily over 12,000 substances
▶ Reaction DB – CAS React
Database of Reactions
Search Reactants, Reagents, Products, catalysts, any Role
Coverage: 1840 to Present
Contents : Over 22 Million Single- and multi-step reactions
Update : Weekly with about 30,000 reactions

18. SciFinder ▶ Specialized DB – CHEMLIST ▶ Specialized DB – CHEMCATS
Regulatory information from Government Regulatory or inventory lists around the world
Coverage : to Present
Contents : Over 275 thousand inventoried/regulated substances
Update : Weekly with over 50 new substances or additions
▶ Specialized DB – CHEMCATS
Quickly and easily obtain current information on commercially available chemicals and their worldwide suppliers
Over 900 suppliers & over 1000 catalogs
Contents : Over 39 Million products
Update : Updated upon receipt of new catalog

19. SciFinder Sources of SciFinder Over 10,000 journals monitored
Patents (over 60 patent organizations)
Technical disclosures
Conference proceedings
Technical reports
Books
Dissertations
Reviews
Meeting abstracts
Web preprints
IP.com Journal
Electronic-only journals
etc
A few of the sources of SciFinder were mentioned when we spoke about Caplus, here is a more substantial list. When you are searching SciFinder, you are not just searching journals and patents but also, books, meetings, web information (from reliable sources), reviews and reports to name a few.

20. SciFinder offer many scientific disciplines
SciFinder has wide application across sciences

21. SciFinder web interface
This powerpoint is mainly covered for the features of SF web version available at Dec 08.
CAS will keep update the SF web version. You can read for the CAS rollout for the latest added features.
This powerpoint is target to the librarian for the SF web set up, registration process, new interface and features

22. Technical aspects of SciFinder Web
SciFinder URL :
Windows-based browsers Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.x as well as FireFox 2.x
Mac browser support for Firefox and Safari
Java applet (J2SE Runtime Environment 6.0, which installs Java 1.6 version) installed on users’ computers for CASDraw to operate
No software or site.prf required
Network requirement:
https (SSL) connection via port 443 to scifinder.cas.org
http connection on port 80 to chemport.cas.org
Client based SciFinder will continue to be fully supported by CAS
No software and site.prf is required. Users can access SF web directly by the URL, which is by IP control.
https (SSL) connection via port 443 to scifinder.cas.org. Port 443 is the standard port for https connections.
Fulltext capabilities of the application, they will need to support an http connection on port 80 to chemport.cas.org, same as the client version of SciFinder.

23. Change the concurrency setting
This is an option of concurrency setting on my.cas.

24. When clicking the registration URL
When the users click the URL, they can choose to create a new SF web ID/PW

25. User enters the information
Fill up those information. The domain must be the school/organization domain.

26. Email validation for new IDs

27. User receives email confirmation
Users will receive the from CAS for successful register. They need to click for the “registration complete link” to activate their ID/PW.

28. User is now ready to access
User is ready to access SF web….

29. New features in SciFinder Web
Direct links to data
Index term linking
Navigate to stages of search
Save answer sets in server
Export answer set as .pdf
Keep Me Posted
Session history retention
Create new answer sets using selective keep/remove
Analyze answers sets automatically
Analyze substances by substance role, elements, reaction availability or commercial availability
New feature on SF web

30. SciFinder web interface
This powerpoint is mainly covered for the features of SF web version available at Dec 08.
CAS will keep update the SF web version. You can read for the CAS rollout for the latest added features.
This powerpoint is target to the librarian for the SF web set up, registration process, new interface and features

31. Clear search interface at one page
Choose for references, substances and reactions search from the top
Choose for the search way from the left
Entry the search queries in the middle
The interface is more clear now. Users can click at the top to select type of search, and then select the search way from the left column….
Users can choose the type of search, enter the search and limit the search on one page.

32. Informative references answer page
This is the answer set page. You can see there is a part of abstract so that users can quick glance on it to know whether the article is useful. And they can get related substance, reaction etc under the abstract…
Once get the answer, SF will automatically analyze author, which is the default. Users can analyze the answer set by pulling down the menu
Besides, users can sort the answer, like accession number….
Abstract information for quick reference, with the keyword highlighted
Get related information for particular or all references
Analyses are performed automatically for getting more ideas of answer set

33. Permalink: Sharing the links for records
A CAplus record (1)
Permalink: Sharing the links for records
This is a patent record in CAplus. You can see those publication information is on the right side now.
There is a new feature of permalink. It is a permanent link that users can share this link with other. Good for professors to put this link on their notes. When another users click for this link, they just need to login for SF and then they can see this record directly.

34. A CAplus record (2)
CAS scientists index for novel concepts and substances
Concepts heading with sub-heading for detailed information
Index terms are linked for faster exploring
CAS registry number is indexed for substance with specific role
Indexing is another important part for the record
You can see the CA section title, to know more about the subject fields.
Besides, you can see the concepts heading which is indexed by CA editors. When users read on the concept heading and its sub-heading, they can get more ideas for this record
CAS also indexes for substance. And you can see they have CAS role for each indexed substance, so we can know if this substance is for application, preparation, biological activity and so on

35. Analyze the results by different ways
Analyze by different ways. Analyze by index term to get more ideas for the key findings from the answer set

36. Keep selected records and analysis display
Keep/Remove selected records
Output options
Save (on CAS server, up to 20,000 answers per answer set)
Print answers
Export in different kinds of format (.akx, .pdf, .rtf, .txt)
Users can save the answer set….it will be saved on CAS server. So that users just need to login SF from any computer and they can get back the answer set.
They can export the answer into pdf format too.
Remember to keep analysis result if you want to continue processing

37. Categorize helps to refine to specific index terms
Categorize features…if users are new for their research topics, they can use categorize to narrow down the answer. SF will analyze the answer from a broad field to more specific index term. Users can choose their particular interest step by step.

38. Refine the answer sets to particular interest

39. Combine answer sets for references, substances and reactions
Combine answer sets....users need to save their answer set and choose the answer sets they want to combine.
If they choose for 2 answer set, then you can see there are 4 ways of combine are available.
If they choose more than 2 answer sets, then you can see there are 2 ways of combine are available, which are Combine and Intersect.

40. Keep me posted for references
KMP features….it is only available for SF commercial and government customer before.

41. Download up to 10 previous history sessions
Can download the history session for keeping track the search strategies

42. Structure search

43. Structure search java plug-in
Please remind customers to install for Java plug in for structure search

44. Structure search result
SF will analyze the answer sets automatically. Please know that some substructure analyze features are not available yet.
Automatic analysis:
- Substance roles, elements, reaction availability and commercial availability

45. Refine structure results by atom attachment
Refine the structure….by atom attachment

46. A substance record (1)
A substance record. CAS has grouped the properties. It is more easy for users to find out their desired properties. Like, spectra.
Besides, when you right click the structure, you can choose to copy the structure into drawing board

47. A substance record (2)
Spectra data….

48. Get interest references for substance
Those “get related” icons are on the top of record, which is more eye-catching now…

49. Get reaction information with detailed condition

50. Export supplier information to excel table
Export the supplier information into excel….can choose more than one substance from the answer set.

51. Summary of SciFinder Web
Provide quick access and user friendly interface to search for scientific information
New features that are tailor made for the needs of researchers
Enhanced content for properties, spectra, registration, reaction information and etc
Personalization features (keep me posted and save as)

52. CAS SciFinder License Agreement
▶ I will not share my unique Login ID or password with any other person
*MACid (Media Access Control identifier): Physical address for the computer
▶ I will store no more than 5,000 records at any time
▶ I will not conduct research for, on behalf of, or deliver search results to, any other organization
▶ CAS Information Use Policies (

53. Scientists of today and tomorrow will continue to benefit from CAS databases and search tools

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