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SciFinder Content Update

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Session Agenda

• New SciFinder® is ready to use

• Current SciFinder data overview

• Content enhancements in SciFinder

• SciFinder training resources

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The new SciFinder is ready to use

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The current SciFinder data overview• CAplusSM - >31 million bibliographic references from 1840 – today

– From more than 10.000 journals, patents, books, e- docs etc.• CASREACT® - >18 million reactions from 1840 - today• CAS REGISTRYSM

– Small chemical molecules: more than 48 million– Sequences: more than 61 million

• CHEMCATS® - >35 million commercially available compounds from more than 1000 catalogues from more than 900 suppliers

• CHEMLIST® - regulatory data for 248,000 substances from 103 listings (www.cas.org/ASSETS/C280569107874800980DE9EF07057315/chemlistlists.pdf)

• MEDLINE® - >18 million bibliographic references from 1950 - today – From more than 4800 journals, books

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Content enhancements in SciFinder

• SciFinder backfile content• Patent enhancements• Additional

– Substance information– Property information– Reaction information– CHEMLIST information

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SciFinder backfile content I

• Additional patent content:– 1250 chemistry-relevant U.S. patents (1808-1859)– Sum U.S. patent records 1.8 million (1808-2008)

• Additional journal content:– 70,957 records Chemisches Zentralblatt (1897-1906)– 53,500 records Journal of the Chemical Society, Abstracts (1890-

1906)– 2,600 records Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions

(1878-1906)

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SciFinder backfile content II

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SciFinder patent content and patent news I

• Patent content: – 59 patent offices are covered, > 6.7 million documents– The top 9 offices have the 2/27 days rule– Details about patent coverage:

www.cas.org/expertise/cascontent/caplus/patcoverage/

• Patent news:– China:

• Bibliographic information within 14 days• Indexed within 49 days

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SciFinder patent content and patent news II

• Korea:– Bibliographic information within 14 days

• Utility Models (Gebrauchsmuster):– German granted utility models back to 2000– Japanese utility models applications back to 2006– Korean utility model applications back to 2006– Korean granted utility models back to 2006– Chinese granted utility models back to 2006

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SciFinder patent content and patent news III• PCT and the first national equivalents (US, DE, GB,

FR, CA, EP) are covered as separate basics to capture possible unique chemical content (7/2008)

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Unique to PCT

Application

Appear in Both PCT

and EP Applications

Unique to EP

Application

Number of Newly

Registered Substances

Indexed

18 12 5

Number of Existing

Substances Indexed

2 7 2

Number of Subject

Indexing Terms

0 18 0

SciFinder patent content and patent news IV

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Additional substance information I

• Prophetic substances from patents are included• Specific substances described but not characterized, appearing

in the examples, but not appearing in the claims section• No additional supporting evidence, such as a physical property

or yield is available• Valid for (US, EP, WO, GB, CA, FR, DE, JP from January 2008)

• Substances are indexed if they are identified by

• Name or structure • Appear in a table• Additional indexing appears for known substances reporting

novel or new uses without substantiation

• Reactions with prophetic substances in CASREACT

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Additional substance information II• Backfile:

– Prophetics extend back to 2003 (WO,US,EP,GB,DE,FR,RU,CA)

– Prophetics extended back to 2008 (JP)– Efforts to produce a further backfile are underway

• Overview 07/2009:– >18 200 patents with prophetics– >7.9 million substances in REGISTRY indexed as

prophetics– >4.4 million substances in REGISTRY indexed only as

prophetics• Get references from substances now includes a

prophetic role search option

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Additional substance information III

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Additional substance information IV• Old CAS data:

– Addition of 600 000 CAS Registry Numbers® 1957-1966 to SciFinder (former part of old CAS data, “STN-CAOLD”)

• The 600 000 RNs are included in 300,000 SciFinder Records

• Internet structure collections:– 07/2009 >1.4 million CAS Registry Numbers from Internet structure

collection• Conditions to be included:

– Described in largely unambiguous terms– Characterized by physical methods or described in a patent

document example or claim– Source information: other source, chemical catalog, chemical

library, databases, etc.» e.g., Other Sources» Database: ChemSynthesis Database (Chemical Synthesis

Database)

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Additional substance information V

Helpful resource on substances without references:www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/stnarticles/zerorefs.html

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Additional property information I• REGISTRY is a rich source of property

information– > 37,980,000 predicted properties

• 19 different properties• www.cas.org/ASSETS/ED9BA6DD755647C781A93B559326E9B3/propde

finitions.pdf

– > 2,756,000 experimental tags (citation links)• 204 different properties• www.cas.org/ASSETS/9026A7E221F247BBBB7383A1127AFC24/tagged

properties.pdf

– > 2,551,000 experimental properties • 12 different properties• www.cas.org/ASSETS/ED9BA6DD755647C781A93B559326E9B3/propde

finitions.pdf

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Additional property information II• Focus on spectra:

Spectra Graphical Property tags

1H-NMR 184,800 1,716,60013C-NMR 145,000 825,700Mass 104,300 1,123,500

IR 93,250 1,030,000

Raman 2,900 17,300

19F-NMR 14,850 36,700

31P-NMR 8,700 68,400

29Si-NMR 1,200 6,500

And > 25 million predicted H – NMR for most single component substances

in REGISTRY

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Additional property information III

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Additional property information IV

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Additional reaction information I

• Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS version 2001) added 09/2008

• Organic Syntheses and Organic Reactions (1921-) added 12/2008

• Coverage:– Reaction is in CASREACT– Indexed document is in CAplus– Links to Wiley InterScience for full-text articles

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Additional reaction information II

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Additional CHEMLIST information I

• CHEMLIST includes 40,000 substances which were pre-registered for REACH between June 1 and Oct 1, 2008 by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

• See if substances have been pre-registered and see the regulatory history

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Additional CHEMLIST information II

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Scientists can now link back into SciFinder from ACS journal references

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SciFinder has very good training resources I

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SciFinder has very good training resources II

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Thank you for your attention Questions? Comments?