CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS

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CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS

• Chemical Abstracts is the premier abstracting
  service for the field of chemistry and related
  areas. This is a huge database with over 700,000
  documents added each year. CA abstracts are
  summaries of scientific discoveries reported in
  the published literature. They are intended to
  help you decide whether the original document is
  of interest. If it is, you can use the
  bibliographic heading material as the route to
  retrieve the document.
• Chemical Abstracts covers around 8,000 journals.

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• CAS CHEMISTS CREATE ABSTRACTS FROM
• journal articles (74)
• chemical and chemical engineering
  
  
  
  patents (16)
• conference proceedings (5)
• technical reports
• dissertations
• books

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EACH ABSTRACT CONTAINS

• complete bibliographic references
• patent references (details of what was patented
  by whom and the country in which the patent was
  issued)
• commonly used chemical substance names or
  molecular formulas
• chemical structure images (when available)

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Many researchers unfamiliar with the content of
the CAS databases assume that CA is strictly
"chemistry," and are astonished by the diversity
of its coverage.

• Agricultural Sciences
• Biology and Life Sciences
• Engineering Sciences
• Food Sciences
• General Chemistry
• Geological Sciences
• Material Sciences
• Medical Sciences
• Physics
• Polymer Science

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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

• More than 574,000 documents in the CAS database
  focus on agricultural sciences.
• Animal nutrition
• Immunochemistry
• Agrochemical bioregulators
• Pesticides
• Plant growth regulators
• Essential oils and cosmetics
• Pharmaceuticals
• Fertilizers, soils, plant nutrition

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BIOLOGY LIFE SCIENCES

• More than 21 of the document references in the
  CAS database focus on biology and the life
  sciences.
• Agriculture
• Molecular biology
• Food engineering Biotechnology
• Microbes, algae, and fungi
• Fermentation
• Bioindustrial methods
• Animal science
• Plant science

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ENGINEERING SCIENCES

• Approximately 35 of the CAS database focuses on
  information of interest to engineers.
• Geological chemistry
• Propellants and explosives
• Coatings and inks
• Plastics manufacturing
• Nuclear technology
• Textiles and fibers
• Apparatus and plant equipment
• Waste treatment and disposal

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FOOD SCIENCES

• Nearly 700,000 document references in the CAS
  database focus on food sciences.
• Plant biochemistry
• Food and feed chemistry
• General physical chemistry
• Microbes, algae and fungi
• Nonmammalian biochemistry
• Neutraceuticals
• Animal nutrition

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GENERAL CHEMICAL INFORMATION

• All documents cited in the CAS database cover
  some aspect of chemistry.
• Biomolecules and synthetic analogs
• General organic chemistry
• Benzene and its derivatives
• Organometallic compounds
• Biochemical methods
• Aliphatic compounds
• Heterocyclic compounds
• Electrochemistry

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GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

• Nearly 760,000 documents in the CAS databases
  focus on geological sciences.
• Geological chemistry and materials
• Air pollution
• Natural gas exploration, reservoirs
• Fossil fuels, related products
• Mineralogical chemistry
• Industrial hygiene
• Nuclear technology
• Water, groundwater

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MATERIALS SCIENCES

• Approximately 10 of document references in the
  CAS databases focus on material sciences.
• Nuclear technology
• Ceramics
• Extractive metallurgy
• Plastics fabrication and uses
• Ferrous metals and alloys
• Nonferrous metals and alloys
• Cement, concrete, and related building materials
• Physical properties of synthetic high polymers

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MEDICAL SCIENCES

• Approximately 18 of all documents in the CAS
  databases focus on the medical sciences.
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Physiological chemistry
• Toxicology
• Pathological biochemistry
• Veterinary medicine
• Nutrition
• Immunochemistry
• Radiation biochemistry

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MEDLINE

• SciFinder Scholar also includes the MEDLINE
  database.
• The MEDLINE database contains more than 12
  million references to journal articles in the
  life sciences with a concentration on
  biomedicine.
• MEDLINE indexes more than 4300 journals.

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PHYSICS

• Approximately 23 of the CAS databases focus on
  physics.
• Surface chemistry and colloids
• Electric phenomena
• Mass spectroscopy
• Crystallography and liquid crystals
• Thermodynamics
• Thermal properties
• Nuclear phenomena
• Magnetic phenomena

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POLYMER SCIENCE

• Approximately 15 of the document references in
  the CAS databases focus on polymer science and
  technology.
• Pharmaceuticals
• Leathers, fats, and waxes
• Fossil fuels and derivatives
• Plastics manufacture and processing
• Surface chemistry and colloids
• Synthetic elastomers and natural rubber
• Chemistry of synthetic high polymers

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FORMAT AND COVERAGE

• Print Chemical Abstracts
• 1907- to date
• Electronic SciFinder Scholar
• 1907- to date

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SCIFINDER SCHOLAR

• SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool
  designed especially for use by students and
  faculty to easily access the information in the
  Chemical Abstracts databases.
• Search by author name, research topic, substance
  identifier, chemical structure, or chemical
  reaction. (Sub-Structure searching ability is
  not available at U.C.)

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SCIFINDER SCHOLAR

• You can search the entire CA file electronically
  with SciFinder from 1907 to the present.
• There are 15 computers in the Chemistry/Biology
  Library with the SciFinder software loaded on it.
  It is available during normal Library hours.
• The system is very easy to use and requires no
  training.

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LICENSE AGREEMENT

• We currently have a three seat license. That
  means only three people at UC can use the
  database at the same time. If all sessions are
  in use you will get the following message.
• SciFinder Scholar is unable to establish a
  session because all concurrent sessions on your
  campus are in use. Please try again later.

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LICENSE AGEEMENT
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SEARCH OPTIONS
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(SELECT ALL VARIATIONS OF NAME)
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SciFinder Scholar provides full text capability
via the ChemPortSM Connection. If full-text is
available for a selected patent or journal
article, a Computer icon will be present. Not
every citation links to full text.
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SciFinder Research Topic

• By default, Explore by Research Topic searches
  for terms in the title, abstract, and index
  fields in both MEDLINE and Chemical Abstracts.
• SciFinder Scholar applies truncation
  automatically. SciFinder retrieved hits for
  inhibitor as well as inhibition,
  inhibiting, inhibit, inhibitors, etc.

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SciFinder Research Topic

• Scifinder Scholar also searches synonyms
  because within SciFinder there is a very
  extensive synonym dictionary.
• In this example, SciFinder also searched
  human immunodeficiency virus and HIV.

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RELATED INFORMATION
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REFERENCES CITED IN DOCUMENTCitations have been
added to the database since 1999.
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CAS Registry Number
Each CAS Registry Number (RN) is a unique
numeric identifier that contain up to 9 digits,
divided by hyphens into 3 parts. Each RN
designates only one substance. It has no chemical
significance and is a link to a wealth of
information about a specific chemical substance.
There are over 32,000,000 RNs. Searching by RN is
very effective.
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CAS Registry Number

• CAS Registry Numbers are systematic terms for
  substances and overcome all sorts of problems
  associated with nomenclature (e.g. different
  names for the same substance substances which
  have very complex names only etc.). They are
  extremely important search terms for substances!

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Structure Searching
We have the ability to do structure searching
but not sub-structure searching. Can search by
ACTUAL or EXACT structure only.
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MULTIPLE FIELD SEARCHING

• To Search multiple fields use the REFINE
• Feature.
• Do your single field search first, then refine
  your search with additional search criteria.

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CHEMLIST

• Includes CAS Regulatory Information Database.
  (CHEMLIST)
• This is a database of regulated chemical
  substances from a number of national and
  international chemical inventories and regulatory
  lists.
• Essential for monitoring illegal substances and
  for keeping track of environmental issues
  relating to chemicals.

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CHEMLIST
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CHEMCATS

• Includes substances in chemical catalogs from
  more than 600 suppliers and 700 catalogs.
  (CHEMCATS)
• 2.7 million records with chemical and trade
  names, company names and addresses, and supplier
  information.

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CASREACT

• Includes 5 million organic reactions from
  journal articles since 1974. (CASREACT).

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SUMMARY

• Easy to use
• All types of chemistry
• Back to 1907
• Includes Medline
• Search by author, topic, substance, structure
• Variation of spelling of names, automatic
  truncation, synonyms
• Limit-Refine
• Chemical catalogs, reactions, inventory lists