SciFinder Scholar

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SciFinder Scholar
The purpose of this presentation is to lead you
through the process of acquiring literature on
chemical topics using SciFinder Scholar.
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Opening SciFinder
Double-click the SciFinder Scholar
icon. Accept the license agreement, and OK
the message of the day.
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Changing Databases
The database being searched may be changed by
going to the toolbar at the top, and clicking
on Database.
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Changing Databases
To search only CAPLUS, go to the left panel and
uncheck Medline, then click OK.
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File Menu Bar
The File Menu Bar in SciFinder leads to a series
of six pull-down menus. Most of the options in
the pull-down menus are duplicate selections that
can be obtained through other means. Here are
the available options
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File Menu Bar

• File
• New Task CtrlN
• Save As CtrlShiftS
• Print Setup
• Print CtrlP
• Full Text Options
• Exit SciFinder Scholar

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File Menu Bar

• Edit
• Cut
• Copy
• Paste
• Select All
• Unselect All

Select All is useful when searching for an
article by multiple authors, when only last names
are known. Its possible to select all the
articles found under one authors last name,
then to refine the search by another authors
last name.
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File Menu Bar

• View
• Compact
• Standard
• Summary
• Full
• Accession Number Order
• Similarity Order
• Title Order
• Reverse Order

SciFinder is normally set to list results in
Standard view. Reverse order is useful when the
article(s) being sought are at the end of a
list.
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File Menu Bar

• Task
• Explore
• Browse Journals
• (The options which appear
• vary depending where you are
• in searching SciFinder.)

• Author Name
• Research Topic
• Document Id
• Company Name
• Chemical Structure
• Substance Id
• Molecular Formula

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File Menu Bar

• Author Name
• Company Name
• Publication Year
• Document Type
• Language
• Database
• Full Text Availability
• Research Topic
• Chemical Structure
• Commercial Availability
• Product Yield
• Number of Steps
• Reaction Type

• Tools
• Analyze References
• Analyze Substances
• Refine
• Keep References
• Task History
• Back
• Forward
• Database Settings
• Statistics Monitor
• Internet

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File Menu Bar
ACS Chem Center SciFinder Scholar Chemical
Abstracts Serivce (CAS) ACS Publications

• Help
• Contents
• Search for Help on .
• Message of the Day
• About SciFinder Scholar

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Search Options
The first screen after the message of the day
provides the search options.
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Choose

• Chemical substance or reaction to search for
  articles by
• chemical structure, molecular formula or CAS
  Registry Number
• Research topic to search for articles by
  keyword or phrase
• Author name to search for articles by
  individuals

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Choose

• Document identifier to search for articles by
  CAS abstract
• Company Name/Organization to search for
  articles by a
• specific organization
• Browse Table of Contents to select a journal
  from a list and
• go to its Table of Contents.

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Examples

• In the following examples, the process for
  narrowing the
• results is integrated into the searches so that
  each search ends
• when articles are selected.
• Later on, article screens will be examined.
  Also covered later
• will be how to print the screens, and how to
  acquire the articles.

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Chemical Structure
In the main search page, select Chemical
Substance or Reaction.
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Chemical Structure
In the sub-search page, select Chemical Structure.
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Chemical Structure

• In the drawing area,
• draw the substance (or
• substances) involved in
• the reaction.
• Select Get Substances.

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Chemical Structure

• Choose between an
• exact match or a
• substructure.
• Then click OK.

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Chemical Structure

• A record for each
• compound matching
• your search will be
• displayed.
• The entire results list
• can be viewed by using
• the scroll down bar on
• the right.

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Chemical Structure

• Select one (or more) of the
• compounds by clicking in the
• small white box next to the
• structure.
• This Get References will
• bring up a box to further
• narrow the search.

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Chemical Structure
After any desired changes are made, click OK.
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Chemical Structure
You may find that too many articles available to
display. When the alert pops up, click OK. See
the first 10,000 references, or refine your
search.
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Chemical Structure
The resulting list can be analyzed or refined by
clicking on Analyze or Refine References.
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Chemical Structure

• Use Analyze to view options
• before deciding how to refine
• them.
• Use Refine to go directly
• to choices for limiting the
• search.
• Analyze will be used in
• this example.

• Click the Analyze button.

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Analyzing Results

• Its possible to analyze by any
• of the listed criteria. (In this example,
• Language is used.)
• The default settings are analyze
• all documents and sort the results
• by frequency.
• Clicking OK implements the
• analysis.

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Analyzing Results

• Select the language(s)
• desired, and click Get
• References to get a new
• list of refined references.

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Refining Results
This list may be further refined by clicking
Analyze or Refine References again.
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Refining Results
To refine the results, click the Refine button.
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Refining Results
There are many criteria to choose from. If
Publication Year is selected,
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Refining Results

• a Refine by Publication Year
• box appears where the year (or
• range of years) desired is input.
• Typing in 1996- searches for
• records from 1996 to the present.
• Click OK to engage the refine.

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Refining Results

• Here is the list from the most
• recent years.
• It may be further refined by
• clicking Analyze or Refine
• References.
• To read the abstract of an
• article, click on the microscope
• button to the right of the
• citation.

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Detail of Reference

• this will bring up a Detail
• of Reference box.
• A printout can be made
• from the file pull down
• menu,

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Detail of Reference

• or Detail of Reference boxes
• for articles which were cited
• may be accessed via the green
• underlined links.
• If there is a monitor icon in the
• upper right corner, the full text
• article may be accessed via
• Chem Port by clicking it.

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Starting a New Search

• To proceed to the next search,
• select New Task.
• OK the Confirm New Task
• box.

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Substance Identifier Searching
In the Explore box, click the Chemical
Substance or Reaction button.
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Substance Identifier Searching

• This brings up an Explore by
• Chemical Substance box.
• Click on the Substance
• Identifier button.

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Substance Identifier Searching

• Now an Explore by Substance Identifier box
  appears.
• It is possible to input a variety of substance
  identifiers to \
• perform a search.
• A CAS Registry number works here.

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Substance Identifier Searching

• For example, input 128-37-0,
• click OK.

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Substance Identifier Searching

• This is one of the
• compounds found in the
• previous example.
• The search may be refined,
• or the references viewed.

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Molecular Formula
Return to the Search Menu by clicking the New
Task button.
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Molecular Formula
Click on the Chemical Substance or Reaction
button.
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Molecular Formula

• That leads back to the subsearch page.
• Now choose Molecular Formula,

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Molecular Formula

• input C15H24O, and click OK.

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Molecular Formula

• To narrow this list of
• references click Refine
• Substances, and

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Molecular Formula
choose Commercial Availability.
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Molecular Formula

• This list should be a lot
• easier to sort through.
• Scroll down the right side
• and look for the same
• compound used in the
• previous searches

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Molecular Formula

• When the compound is
• found, mark the white box
• in its upper left corner.
• The search can now be
• refined, or the references
• viewed.

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Research Topic

• Choose New Task
• Choose Research Topic

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Research Topic
Input the subject, and click OK.
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Research Topic

• In the Topic Candidates
• box, choose between
• references with the exact
• phrase input, and/or
• references about that topic.
• This example uses the
• exact phrase.
• Click Get References.

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Research Topic

• Heres the first results
• list for this example.
• It may be further refined
• by clicking Analyze or
• Refine References.

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Research Topic
Here, select Refine.
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Research Topic
It is possible to choose from several options,
including adding more topics (i.e. keywords) but
for this example, click Publication Year.
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Research Topic

• Input the appropriate year(s), and click OK.

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Research Topic

• The second results list is
• still pretty long.
• It may be narrowed down a
• bit more by clicking
• Analyze or Refine
• References again.

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Author Name
On the Main Search Screen, go to the Toolbar and
click New Task.
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Author Name

• Click on Author Name.

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Author Name

• Enter Rechkemmer in the last name area,
• enter G in the first, and click OK.

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Author Name

• The Author Candidates box
• features the exact match in
• blue, and names which could
• be the same person in black.
• Select the name(s) that are
• desired by going to Edit in
• the Menu bar, scrolling down
• and Selecting All.
• Click Get References.

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Author Name
This list may be further narrowed by using
options under Analyze or Refine References.
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History

• To view the path used in a search
• click History in the toolbar.

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History

• The history button shows the search
• sequence step by step.
• It also notes steps that the software
• was unable to complete. For
• example, if someone tries to refine the
• references by the document type
• patent it states that Refine by
• document type Patent is not
• supported by MEDLINE.

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History

• That statement was not
• available elsewhere in SciFinder.
• Click Close.

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Document Identifier
Click New Task to begin a new search. Click
Document Identifier.
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Document Identifier

• Input the Chemical
• Abstracts Number in the
• white area.
• Click OK.

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Document Identifier

• This takes us directly to
• the reference for that
• article.
• It should be the first
• article from the Gerhard
• Rechkemmer Author
• Name search.

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Company Name/Organization

• Return to the initial
• search page by clicking
• New Task.
• Select Company
• Name/Org-anization.

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Company Name/Organization

• Input Eli Lilly.
• Click OK.

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Company Name/Organization

• The resulting list is very long.
• It may be refined by
• Document type, publication
• year or other factors by
• clicking Analyze or Refine
• References

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Examining the results

• From a list of references it may be possible to
• examine the Details of Reference boxes,
• print the references,
• save them,
• acquire the on-line full text articles.

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Printing

• To print article(s) from the results
• list, select them by clicking the
• corresponding white boxes in
• front of each citation.
• Click Print in the toolbar.

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Printing

• The format is chosen from the pull down menu.
  The formats to
• choose from will be described later.)
• The task history prints first, unless the box is
  unselected.
• A document header may be added to print at the
  top of each page.

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Task History

• This is the basic
• appearance of a
• Task History
• printout.
• It shows the initial
• search. Plus it lists
• each additional
• step that has been
• taken to analyze or
• refine that search.

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Compact Printout

• This is a compact printout.

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Standard Printout
This is a standard printout.
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Summary Printout

• This is page one of a two
• page summary printout.
• Notice that two citations
• are selected.
• Also take note of the line
• stating This is a test header
• at the top.

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Summary Printout

• The summary printouts
• consist of detailed
• citations plus abstracts.
• Notice that the Test
• Header prints at the top
• of each page.

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Full Printout
Full format contains the detailed citation,
abstract, indexing, and a list of references
which the author cited in the article. It does
not contain the actual article.
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Full Printout
The length of a full format printout is often
multi-page.
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Full Text On-line
Electronic articles may be accessed from
SciFinder Scholar via 1. Full Text in the
toolbar, or 2. clicking the computer icon next
to the citation, or 3. clicking the microscope
icon, then clicking the computer icon in the
Detail of Reference box.
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1) Via toolbar

• Check the white box in
• front of desired articles,
• and click Full Text.

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1) Via toolbar
After the Chem Port Connections box is loaded,
its possible to select an individual article
to view by clicking on the page icon to the
right of it.
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1) Via toolbar

• If the Full Text
• Options page of Chem
• Port contains colored
• HTML or PDF bars
• the article should be
• linked to them.
• To choosebetween
• the formats, click the
• respective bar.

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2) Via monitor button

• Chem Port (and the full text article) may also be
  accessed by
• clicking the monitor button to the right of an
  individual article.
• (If an electronic article cannot be accessed via
  SciFinder
• Scholar, it does not mean that the University
  Libraries does
• not have electronic access. Other e-journal
  sources are
• available from the University Libraries web
  pages.)

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2) Via monitor button

• Often this will link
• directly to the article.
• In this example, it was
• not a direct link, so the
• article is accessed by
• clicking on the second
• link on the right side,

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2) Via monitor button

• Then by clicking the Download link to go to the
  article.

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