A selection of extended ppt slides used to help students in Paul Zelisko's CHEM2P20 class by Ian Gordon, Chemistry Librarian

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Ian Gordon
CHEM 2P20
SciFinder
Exercise
Happy
Pearl Jacobson, Science Librarian,
Carleton University

15. Enter your brock authentication username & password, not mine…

16. Accept and fill in the form, click register and wait for an
Email authentication, takes 15 minutes…

17. Click on SciFinder link and follow through with
Brock authentication and your SciFinder username
and password, works well on campus, should work
well off campus, need to sign in every time…

18. Click on Explore and Author Name or click under
References the Author Name tab. This is the default
SciFinder first screen, every time.

19. Don’t forget to screen capture your name tag in the
top right hand corner and paste into the assignment.
This proves you have a SciFinder account with
your own name.

20. Remember back at the faculty home page
list of publications, check to see what the researcher
uses for their common initials and/or first name.
You know the last name spelling so don’t use the “Look
for alternate spellings…” option. If you’re doing
Tony then he uses his Anglicized name. All others
use a first and sometimes a second initial…put in a
first initial for searching as above.

21. You pick out all the names of individuals that
make sense, you can then limit after clicking
Get References to Analyze by: Company-
Organization being Brock University with the
next screen, there is no one standard for
Personal names, although ORCiD is coming soon
to SciFinder, do you have an ORCiD ID number?
If not get one…

22. It’s not a perfect science, but if you need to know
authors and research groups, you can’t guess and
need to make sure you’ve got their names right.

23. Notice the numbers you need to track for the assignment.
Analyze and Refine are similar, analyze
does the numbers and then asks if you want to complete
it, Refine just does it…
Note the breadcrumbs on top, this tracks the search strategy
and resulting limits, you can back track to get several
numbers, but I’d suggest you do each search separately so
that you are working with the same author set.

24. Analyze by many different ways including
Database. SciFinder searches both Chemical Abstracts and
MEDLINE/PubMed at the same time. There is overlap, but
there are many unique publications in either databases. Again
you need to know and check this out when doing research…

25. Refine by Document Type and select Journal…
Grab the resulting number.

27. Get Substances, click all knowing you can make any
further limiting choices, very powerful, click Get, then
the number, should be large…

28. For question 6 you need to select preparation, then review results…

30. For question 6 these are the results, you can analyze and/or refine
and sort by any number of functions. I’d suggest sorting by Number
of References, then browse down past the common inorganics, water,
benzene… to find an organic compound that has more than 500 hits
and a commercial supplier noted by the red flask…

31. For question 6 browse and pick the organic chemical that looks interesting
and has a larger number, I like this one below… click on the number
header – e.g. 58479-61-1 you can always then take this structure, adjust it,
set parameters, then find compounds and related articles… a big search
strategy for chemists, especially organic chemists…

32. For question 6 browse and pick the organic chemical that looks interesting
and has a larger number, I like this one below… click on the number
header – e.g. 58479-61-1 you can always then take this structure, adjust it,
set parameters, then find compounds and related articles… a big search
strategy for chemists, especially organic chemists… numbers, names and
formulas listed on this page… grab the structure and add to question 6.

33. For question 7, search author, refine by document type, then journal, etc.
then when seeing results click on Get Reactions…

35. For question 7 you can analyze or refine or sort several different ways.
You can also click on reactions and then modify searches until you find what
you want/like. Click on View Reaction Detail to find citation. Every reaction
is linked to a citation as per the following screen.

36. For question 7 citation information is on the right. To find the full text
you click on “Link to Other Sources.” This can be challenging
as you can’t tell until you find the full text / PDF whether we own it. If that
doesn’t work click on the Source link on the right and then find the citation
and click away…

37. To export the citation to a citation management system e.g. Papers, Mendeley,
Zotero, etc. click on Export, open your program, create a file folder,
and then click away.

39. Click export and the citation will fly into your citation management system
so that you can create citations/bibliographies with any citation style e.g.
ACS at any time. All this is free, a huge timesaver and certainly worth
exploring for other assignments, papers and stuff.

41. This is what a citation management system report look like, Zotero,
You’d use this to create a bibliography or perform write-and-cite in
Word, fyi.

44. Use any of the listed quick guides, or do it manually cribbing
from an example. Click on “here” above to see a list of citation
management systems as other quick tools listed usually don’t push
ACS style, maybe one day…

47. Comment: One thing you learned
about the nature of organic chemistry
research through this exercise?

48. Comment: One thing you learned about
SciFinder and chemical information through
this exercise?

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CHEM 2P20
SciFinder
Exercise
Happy
Pearl Jacobson, Science Librarian,
Carleton University
Ian Gordon
igordon@Brocku.ca