Chemical Abstracts Scifinder Scholar

Bruce SlutskyRobert Van Houten Library

What is Chemical Abstracts?

(CAS)

A database of articles covering the research literature of chemistry and related sciences from 1907 to the present

Organization of the Print CAS

80 sections divided among Biochemistry Organic Macromolecular Applied Physical, Inorganic and Analytical

See http://www.cas.org/products/print/secgr/index.html for more details

Volume Indexes

Author Patent General Subject Chemical Substance Formula http://www.cas.org/products/print/ca/

volindex.html for more information

STN International(Online version of CAS)

Allows Access to hundreds of scientific, technical and medical databases including CAS (List of databases)

Pay as you go. Pricing is based on time online and information retrieved

Suited for experienced searchers STN Easy version for infrequent

searchers

Searching CAS on STN

Based on Boolean logic Can search on many fields as

shown in the CA database summary sheet

STN Easy

http://stneasy.cas.org/easy5/index.html

Scifinder Scholar An electronic version of Chemical

Abstracts covering 1907 to the present It is now searchable on the web Users must set up an account with their

NJIT e-mail Only 2 simultaneous users allowed

1 for web based version ( must setup an account)

1 for client based version (need to download software)

Instructions at http://www.library.njit.edu.libdb.njit.edu:8888/njit-only/scifinder.php

Searching Scifinder Scholar

The program takes only a few seconds to perform the search

The user must take time to evaluate the references

Users should print or download the retrieved references and evaluate them offline to allow other to access Scifinder

The program looks for the search terms but can not always link the concepts to find the desired information

Searching Capabilities ResearchTopic Substance

CAS Reg No. Name Molecular Formula

Author Name Author Affiliation Chemical Structure Reaction

Substance Information

References May be limited

Commercial Sources Safety Chemical Reactions

Refining an Answer Set

Language Document type Publication Year Author Topic Author Affiliation

Analyzing an Answer Set

Author Name CAS Reg No. CA Section Title Company/Organization Index Term Journal Name

Related Information Cited References in the document Citing References Substances Reactions Web Information How to guides from CAS

Significance of Citing References

Retrieving the Relevant Documents

Clicking the microscope icon gives the abstract to help decide relevance

Clicking the square icon brings the user to the Chemport Connection Link to html from publisher – allows or

denies access NJIT electronic journal link – checks for

print and provides link to interlibrary loan

Enough Information?

Is another search strategy needed? High Precision High Recall

Search other databases To be discussed in the next lecture

ONLINE TRAINING FOR SCIFINDER SCHOLAR

http://www.cas.org/support/academic/index.html

Links for training for web and client versions Comparison of the two versions

http://tinyurl.com/n5v4qk - compiled by Ben Wagner of SUNY Buffalo