C472 SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
Updated: 15 January 2003
Week 1
SciFinder Scholar: Overview and New Features
To download the client software:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/protected/sciintro.html
Information Retrieval: SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar
DDR02 (passim)
Schwall, Kirk; Zielenbach, Kurt. "SciFinder: A new generation of research tool."
Chemical Innovation 2000 (October), 30(10), 45-50.
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/chtedd/index.html
"Strategies for chemical reaction searching in SciFinder," by Damon D. Ridley
J. Chem. Inf.
Comput. Sci. 2000, 40, 1077-1084.
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jcisd8/index.html
CAS SciFinder Scholar Resources
http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/resources.html
Week 2
STN Express with Discover! and STN on the Web
NONE
Week 3
Target Your Searching with CAS Roles (STNote No. 5)
http://info.cas.org/ONLINE/STN/STNOTES/stnotes5.pdf
CAS Roles Quick Reference Card
http://info.cas.org/ONLINE/QR/casroles.pdf
Week 4
Week 5
Searching Chemical Names
Davis, Charles H. "Nomenclature Lite:" A Guide to Naming and Indexing
Chemical Compounds.
http://php.indiana.edu/~davisc/Abstract.htm
Chemical
Nomenclature
Week 6
Weeks 7-9
STRUCTURE SEARCHING: INTRODUCTION
Structure
Searching in
CAS Online Using STN Express: An Introductory Workshop
"How structure searching works," DDR96,
Ch. 14.
"Searching by structure," DDR96, Ch. 15.
Week 10
"Substance files with property information,"
DDR96, Ch. 16.
Week 11
"Using the Beilstein reaction database in an academic environment,"
by E. Zass. SRH98, Ch. 7.
"Searching for chemical reactions," DDR96,
Ch. 17.
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15 Cambridge Structural Database
Allen, Frank H.; Hoy, Vanessa J. "Cambridge Structural Database," in:
Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, v. 1 pp. 155-167. (QD 39.3.E46
E53 1998 v. 1 Chemistry Reference)
Allen, Frank H.; Kennard, Olga; Watson, David G. "Crystallographic
Databases: Search and Retrieval of Information from
the Cambridge Structural Database," Ch. 3 in: Structure Correlation v. 1.
Ed. by Burgi, Hans-Beat and Dunitz, Jack D. Weinheim, etc., VCH, 1994
(QD461.S935 1994)
The CSD System Documentation
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/support/csd_doc/zdocmain.html