SciFinder Scholar 2004 Tutorials::
developed by CAS

::BASIC             These BASIC learning tools are from the CAS Learning Center

SciFinder Scholar Interactive Tutorials

Hands-on practice demonstrating the topics covered below in the BASIC Brief Instructional Sheets to answer questions commonly encountered in chemistry courses. Requires full version of Macromedia's Authorware Web Player. [download]

Run the General Chemistry interactive tutorial demonstrating: Locating preparations for organic compounds; Unknown identification in analytical chemistry.

Also available are interactive tutorials demonstrating finding information in the fields of Biology and Chemical Engineering.

BASIC Brief Instructional Sheets

Provide additional printed information covered by the above interactive tutorials that show how to utilize the following SciFinder Scholar pathways:

-Research Topic

---Get Related Substances

-Chemical Structure: Linking synthetic information in CAS databases

-Author Name

-Company Name/Organization

-Reactions

-Chemical Name or CAS Registry Number®

-Document Identifier

-Browse Table of Contents of Journals

Other powerful tools for additional exploration:

-Citation linking

-Links to Regulated Chemicals and Commercial Sources

-Link to the full-text document

-Refine tool

-Analyze tool

-Substructure Module: Stereo analysis feature

-Calculated Properties

User Documentation

Getting Started with SciFinder Scholar, a 14 page PDF file [requires Adobe Reader]

::INTERMEDIATE

Consult these INTERMEDIATE Brief Instructional Sheets to identify strategies for becoming more productive using SciFinder Scholar.

• Substructure Searching lets you explore the CAS Registry of more than 23 million organic and inorganic substances.

• Reaction Searching assists in evaluating approaches to compound synthesis.

• Polymer Search helps to identify access routes to the largest and most current collection of documents about polymers.

A full index of the INTERMEDIATE tutorials from SciFinder Scholar Solutions is available.

• Protecting Group Search Guide to Scholar reaction searching where one functional group reacts and the other doesn't. [-by University of Michigan Library]

go to: Selected Article Databases by Subject/Discipline [or] Selected Article Databases by Name