Presented by

Surendra Kumar PalLibrary Information Assistant trainee

Indian Institute of Science Education & Research-Trivandrum, Kerala

Contents Definition

Overview

Scifinder Content

Coverage

Feature and Benefits

How to Search?

Conclusion

Definition SciFinder Scholar is a Z39.50 Windows-based interface that provides easy

access to the rich and diverse scientific information contained in the CAS databases including Chemical Abstracts from 1907 onwards.

The SciFinder Scholar offers a variety of pathways to explore CAS databases as well as MEDLINE.

SciFinder Scholar interface provides the most accurate and comprehensive chemical and related scientific information including: journal articles and patents together in one source, substance data, chemical reactions, chemical regulatory data, chemical suppliers and biomedical literature.

SciFinder Scholar covers not only chemistry but also Agriculture, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering, Food, Geology, Medical, Physics, Polymer and Material Sciences.

Overview References from more than 10, 000 currently published

journals and patents from more than 63 patent authorities.

Important scientific discoveries from the present to the mid – 1800s.

The worlds largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information.

The latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they are published with references added daily and some patent information as recent as 2 days ago.

Scifinder contentSciFinder 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 Scholar Coverage > 10,500 Journals

51 Patent Issuing Authorities

Conference Proceedings

Technical Reports

Book Reviews

Dissertations

Features and Benefits Access to current, high quality scientific information.

Links to more relevant journal articles and patent documents than any other source.

Content indexed by scientists

Time savings, with speedy access to more than a century of scientific information.

A novel approach to problem solving by linking related concepts.

When you open SciFinder Scholar, the first thing you see is the “Explore” menu. You have 6 different choices of how to search for articles.

SciFinder:Uses ‘natural’ language searching

I am looking for the effect of aspirin on blood clotting separate key concepts with prepositions prepositions are translated into the Boolean

aspirin on blood clotting is better than aspirin blood clotting

if only a space separates words, the system will consider the words to be part of a phrase

searching authors in scifinder:

type a surname and initial, select all possible forms of a name.

Conclusions SciFinder makes it easy to locate chemical synthesis

information in a variety of ways, depending on your needs.It then lets you explore synthetic pathways as well asquickly and easily navigate amongreference, substance, reaction, and commercial sourceinformation.

SciFinder can help to increase the overall effectiveness ofyour searching, as well as your accuracy, efficiency, andproductivity and it is an effective tool for accessingimportant information for teaching and academic research.

SciFinder is an essential part of the chemical synthesisresearch process.

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Wilson, Anne M.s (2002). Utilization of Scifinder Scholar at an Undergraduate Institution. Journal of Chemical Education, 524.

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