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Medline covers primarily biomedical literature, containing more than 13 million citations (October, 2002) of articles from more than 4600 journals published since 1958 [18]. The database covers basic biomedical research, clinical sciences, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences, and life science. Medline, a subset of PubMed, is a bibliographic database produced by the US Nationcil Library of Medicine (NLM). The database is available free of charge via SciFinder Scholar or PubMed [19]. 

Figure 5-13. The results of a substance search are displayed In the SciFinder Scholar window.

Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD) Software Solaris V4 (1994-2004) www.scifinder.scholar.com. 

All chemical shift data presented in this book come either from the primary literature or from spectra obtained in the author s laboratory. All spectra actually depicted in the book derive from spectra obtained by the author at the University of Florida. All data from the literature were obtained via searches using MDL Crossfire Commander or SciFinder Scholar. Persons interested in accessing such primary literature can do so readily via these databases by simply searching for the specific compound mentioned in the text. 

Regarding the multitude of NMR chemical shifts of specific compounds that are provided within the text, references for chemical shifts of individual compounds for the most part will not be cited. It is assumed that if such references are required, the reader can find them by a quick search using either MDL Crossfire Commander or SciFinder Scholar. The author found MDL Crossfire Commander the superior database for locating specific NMR data. 

Source Chemical Abstracts, American Chemical Society (Scifinder Scholar, Version 2004). 

SciFinder at http //www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/scicover2.html is an easy-to-use desktop research tool that allows the user to explore research topics, browse scientific journals, and access information on the most recent scientific developments. SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool designed especially for use by students and faculty to easily access the information in the CAS databases. With either tool, one can search Chemical Abstracts and the CA Registry by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. 

Unlike the lanthanides, the actinides U, Np, Pu, and Am have a tendency to form linear actinyl dioxo cations with formula MeO and/or Me02. All these ions are paramagnetic except UO and they all have a non-spherical distribution of their unpaired electronic spins. Hence their electronic relaxation rates are expected to be very fast and their relaxivities, quite low. However, two ions, namely NpO and PuOl", stand out because of their unusual relaxation properties. This chapter will be essentially devoted to these ions that are both 5/. Some comments will be included later about UOi (5/°) and NpOi (5/ ). One should note here that there is some confusion in the literature about the nomenclature of the actinyl cations. The yl ending of plutonyl is often used indiscriminately for PuO and PuOl and the name neptunyl is applied to both NpO and NpOi. For instance, SciFinder Scholar" makes no difference between yl compounds in different oxidation states. Here, the names neptunyl and plutonyl designate two ions of the same 5f electronic structure but of different electric charge and... 

Searching is made much simpler with computer systems such as SciFinder Scholar where the name or CAS can be entered, and references related to that compound obtained. 

FIGURE 2.3 Trend of electronic tongue original research papers over the period 1996-2009. Data obtained from a literature search using SciFinder Scholar. 

For the period from the beginning of 1975 to the middle of 2004, more than 750 citations pertaining either directly or peripherally to the electrodeposition of cobalt were retrieved from a literature search by means of SciFinder Scholar, but the overwhelming majority of those references were to works involving cobalt-containing alloys. Consequently, in this summary, mention is restricted to articles concerning just the deposition of... 

For example, performing search with SciFinder Scholar program (American Chemical Society) on the keyword "capillary electrophoresis", results about 30 thousand hits. 

FIGURE 22.1 Number of scientific papers and patents published on the topic as a function of publication year (2005 until June). (From SciFinder Scholar, 2004 keywords entered vaginal drug delivery systems.)... 

Ridley DD. Information Retrieval SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar. New York Wiley-VCH, 2002. 

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. 

Fig-1 Number of publications (scientific papers and patents) in the field of neodymium-catalyzed polymerization in the period 1965 to 2004 (SciFinder Scholar inquiry in December/2005 research topic neodymium polymerization )... 

A considerable percentage of the publications retrieved by the SciFinder Scholar inquiry includes patent literature. In this review, patents as well as scientific articles are equally acknowledged. 

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. 

If the editor decides to send the manuscript for peer review, customarily two to four individuals with appropriate expertise—training or research experience—are asked to review the manuscript. The editor may identify reviewers in a number of ways. Many editors ask authors to recommend reviewers some do not. Author-recommended reviewers may or may not be used. Most editors will not send manuscripts to specific reviewers if an author so requests. Other potential reviewers may be authors cited in the manuscript, acknowledged experts in the field, or other active researchers in the field. Editors often use scientific search services (such as SciFinder or SciFinder Scholar for chemists) to identify qualified potential reviewers. Reviewers may or may not be known personally to the editor. Most journals maintain records on thousands of reviewers, including their expertise, manuscripts they have reviewed, performance, and so on. 

Scifinder Scholar, version 2004.2 Chemical Abstracts Service Columbus, OH, 2004 RN 107-21-1 (accessed Dec 20, 2005) calculated using ACD/Labs software, version 8.14 ACD/Labs 1994-2006. 

In many ways, the field of chemistry is extremely fortunate in having had powerful, specialized searching tools like SciFinder Scholar, STN Express, and MDL Crossfire (for Beilstein and Gmelin) available for many years. These tools permit a high degree of flexibility in searching for example, one can find journal articles that refer to compounds containing particular substructures, search for physical properties of particular compounds, and so on. However, these are bounded tools ... 

Another way he approaches the literature is by research program. He finds this to be a good way to organize information. He knows the players in the field or uses WOS if he does not to find out who the major players or research labs are. For him, an ideal tool would be one that would give him the ability to drop PDFs on an interactive map of the world that showed the research labs. When he wanted information on a topic, he would be able to mouse over the map and get information on the various labs research (probably the material he stored and additional information too). He thinks lots of researchers view the information world in this manner. He does not like the way SciFinder Scholar displays the bibliographic results from a keyword search, and that is one reason he uses WOS. 

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