CAPLUS

One of the more prominent integrated databases is provided by CAS - the Registry CAPLUS, CA, CAOLD. All of these diverse databases are based on the... 

CA File, CAPlus, CA Previews STN Chemical Abstracts Service international, chemistry limited bibhographic data comprehensive English language abstracts deep indexing of chemical concepts stmcture-searchable compound registry chemical stmcture drawings... 

MARPAT, MARPAT Previews STN Chemical Abstracts Service international, chemistry stmcture-searchable Markush formulas in addition to other data searchable in the CA FUe, CAPlus, or CA Previews... 

Electron beam-curable acrylate-modified colored polyurethanes. (Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., USA). Jpn. Kokai Tokkyo Koho (1984), 4 pp. CODEN JKXXAF JP 59066413 A 19840414 Showa. Patent written in Japanese. Application JP 83-165284 19830909. Priority US 82-419864 19820920. CAN 101 73632 AN 1984 473632 CAPLUS. 

Figure 1.2 Journals that have published the most papers on combinatorial library design. Total number of papers published on this subject according to the Chemical Abstract Service s CAPLUS and MEDLINE databases for all years through 2004 plus three-quarters of 2005.

CAPlus database, 18 235 capo designation, for boron hydrides, 4 174 Capoten, molecular formula and structure, 5 149t... 

CAPLUS. 1995. Chemical Abstracts. Online database. American Chemical Society. 

Fig. 2. The number of publications on Si3N4 ceramics since 1965 (source Chemical Abstracts CAPLUS)...

SciFinder Scholar lets students and faculty search the CAPlus and Registry databases by authors names, concepts, chemical names, molecular formulas, CAS Registry Numbers, chemical structures, and specific references such as a patent number. SciFinder allows these options, plus other ones for handling the queries and hits. The latest version of SciFinder also can search Medline. 

Although SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar are very user friendly and are great software products, the user may not realize that the searches are not retrieving all the information stored in the 200 databases at STN. To illustrate that other STN databases contain pertinent information, we present in Table 1 the results of an STN search we did about 5 years ago. We searched for common terms obviously relevant to our audience, such as computational chemistry, molecular orbital, and force fields. These terms are listed across the columns of the table. In most of the searches we qualified the search inquiry so that only hits relevant to computational chemistry would be retrieved. The table shows clearly that the CAPlus file had a great many hits, as expected. However, it is also obvious that most of the other STN databases also contain pertinent hits. We present these results just to illustrate the sort of information that is accessible with the full-blown STN search tools. 

CAPlus is the most current and most comprehensive chemistry bibliographic database available from the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and covers from 1967 to date. CAplus coverage includes international journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences. 

Including biodegradable polymers, hydrogen storage, nanomaterials, biosynthesis, conducting polymers, biomass fuel Source Caplus database... 

CAplus Chemistry Abstract Services 81 http //www.cas.org, http //www.cas.org/prod.html... 

To gather this information, we relied primarily on SciFinder Scholar to search for key words, topics, or authors in the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) database. SciFinder searches CAS s CAplus, which is their main database of abstracts of journal articles and other literature. The search task was not straightforward. Whereas abstracts of individual articles are often long and detailed, the descriptions of books are minimal. Most unfortunately, individual chapters in many multiauthored books have not always been well abstracted by CAS often the chapters are listed with little more than the number of references cited. 

Although this appendix is nominally about books, we also included proceedings of meetings even if they were published in a special issue of a journal. Some, but definitely not all, special thematic issues of journals have been classified as books in CAplus. Generally, the items included were assigned with a data type of book by the CAS staff. CAS has classified a smattering of users manuals for specific pieces of software as books, but we did not include these in our compilations. 

There were other issues regarding our search that are noteworthy. Author s initials that appear on the book itself are sometimes missing from CAplus. For a few books, not all author s or editor s names are listed in the database sometimes only the first three are entered. In cases where we had personal knowledge of such books, we added the other author s or editor s names in our tabulations. In other cases, we had to leave the entry et al. Another vexing problem that affected our compendium is that it was not clear from the CAplus information whether some books were authored or edited. For books derived from conference proceedings, we entered into our EndNote files that the books were edited.3 Flowever, in many cases we did not have the books available to check firsthand. 

From Figure 2, it is obvious that using the CAS database to find the majority of books in our survey turned up relatively few of the books published in the last two years. Moreover, our use of SciFinder suggests a nontrivial number of books may be missing from the CAplus database. We estimate that our present tabulation could undercount the true total number of computational chemistry books by as much as a few hundred. 

Yevich, J. P., Mayol, R. F., Li, J., and Yocca, F. 2003b. S-6-Hydroxy-buspirone for treatment of anxiety, depression and related disorders. United States Patent Appl. Publ., 7 pp. CODEN USXXCO US 2003022899 A1 20030130 CAN 138 131151 AN 2003 77553 CAPLUS. 

CASSI abbreviations for about fifteen hundred leading journals are listed on a free website (CAplus Core Journal Coverage List). Also on the web is the CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool (http //cassi.cas.org/search.jsp). 

CAplus covers the literature from 1907 to the present, plus more than 133,000 pre-1907 journal records and more than 1,250 records for U.S. patents issued from 1808 to 1859. Includes article references from more than ten thousand major scientific worldwide journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, patents, dissertations, and meeting abstracts. 

CAplus Literature from 1907 to the present plus selected pre-1907 references. Sources include journals,... 

CAplus covers a wide spectrum of science-related information, including chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences. 

CAS Source Index (CASSI) abbreviations. The most recent printed cumulative compendium of CASSl abbreviated titles is for the period 1907-2004. Annual printed updates are also issued, and a CD version is available, in which the cumulative titles and the annual updates are combined (currently CASSl on CD covers the period 1907-2008). From 2010, only the CD version of CASSl is published. CASSl abbreviations for about 1,500 leading journals are listed on a free website (CAplus Core Journal Coverage List). 

Van Drie, John H. Pharmacophore discovery A critical review, Comput. Med. Chem. Drug Discovery 2004, 437-460. CODEN 69EIPX CAN 141 306806 AN 2004 371615 CAPLUS. 

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