CH450
- Intro to Chemical Research
Library Resources -- Fall 2006
Chemical Abstracts databases (CAPLUS, Registry, CASREACT) are updated weekly with
thousands of new records. It takes between a few days and a few weeks for a newly published article to appear in CA.
Beeghly Library does have some Chemical Abstracts in print. From 1907 - 1966 will be located in the basement archives for a while longer until we have to use the
immense space they take. You would need to ask a librarian to use these.
You may already love SciFinder Scholar, a tool we use to search for chemical literature. It includes
You can search over 23 million documents by topic, author, CAS Registry Numbers, patent number, and CAS abstract number.
Chemical substances may be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, Registry Numbers, and molecular formula.
Currently enrolled Juniata College students, faculty, and staff are authorized to use SciFinder Scholar from any computer connected to the campus network.
SciFinder Scholar 2006 is installed in most computers in von Liebig Science Center as well as the library and main lab computers via the Remote AppServer.
Authorized Juniata users may also install SciFinder Scholar on their personal computers, but must remove it immediately upon leaving Juniata as per our licensing agreement.
To install SciFinder Scholar go to the Library's folder on the P drive and you will find the installation file in the SciFinder Scholar folder. After installation you MUST also copy the site preferences file (site.prf) into the SAME location as the new application folder. Failure to do this will result in the following message upon launching SciFinder Scholar:
You must have Administrator privileges in order to install the software. SciFinder Scholar is available for Mac OS X in addition to Windows.
Librarian Julie
Woodling is the Juniata key contact for SciFinder Scholar and you may email her with questions.
This means that all available seats to SciFinder Scholar are currently being used. Juniata shares access to a pool of 3 seats with 5 other schools. If these are all in use, you will get the message and you will need to wait and try again. To ensure maximum access with our partners, please minimize your connect time and exit SciFinder Scholar as soon as you are done searching.
SciFinder Scholar searches indexing and abstracting databases and therefore doesn't contain full text articles. However, it does provide links to the full text articles when it exists electronically. But remember, just because it exists electronically you may not have permission to access it. In order for you to have permission to access the full text, the article must be in a journal that Juniata College subscribes to OR, it must be freely available. If you are asked for a password, be sure to open a second window and go to Beeghly Library's journal holdings lists to verify Juniata access (or lack of) to the journal containing your wanted article.
Most recent patent documents (including applications) that are indexed in CAPLUS can be seen in full text via ChemPort. CAS links to U.S. patents via the USPTO web site, which contains full text and images. Foreign patents are access via the European Patent Office.
No. Cited references in an articles's bibliography are included in CA records since 1998. Most of them are hyperlinked to their CA record. This type of forward searching can be done at Juniata, but it is extremely expensive and is done by a librarian on a limited basis.
MEDLINE is considered by many to be THE life sciences database. You can get access to it freely in many forms since it is produced by the National Library of Medicine.
It is also included in SciFinder Scholar and you may get used to searching it there. I much prefer it from NLM's site. If you are doing research in biochemistry and
pharmaceutical chemistry, MEDLINE will be a must.
As with most advanced databases, it is international and you should be sure of the language of articles you retrieve.
Beilstein Abstracts has been collecting information about organic matter since 1771!
If your research is in organic chemistry, you will want to search this valuable tool. You can search it from 1980 to the present free of charge by becoming a member of
www.chemweb.com and there is no charge for membership.
Users can access titles, abstracts and citations from the top journals in organic and related chemistry, published from 1980 to the present in this subset of Beilstein
Abstracts.
There are currently over 750,000 articles in the Beilstein Abstracts database, published from over 140 of the top journals in organic and related chemistry.
Beilstein and SciFinder are complementary resources, and even though there is some overlap in coverage, the two are quite different in the ways they scan and index
the literature, the way they register compounds, and in the dates of coverage.
www.chemweb.com does have something for everyone -- not just organic chemistry. It is a community for all chemistry (analytical, biochemistry, electrochemistry, fuel, inorganic, polymer, physical, etc.) Join and take advantage!
If the journal name is abbreviated there are several ways to figure out the full name of a journal.
First, most reputable databases provide a list of journals that it indexes and abstracts.
Second, meet CASSI.
WorldCat -- Global library catalog (our holdings show too) -- good for ILL books
Remember -- Databases use IP authentication (be connected to EagleNet)
Remember -- Taking Notes about your databases and search strategies can really help
Remember -- Use the AtoZ List to find journals that you can access.
