This document provides information about several scientific databases: Beilstein, SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus. Beilstein contains over 9 million substance records and reaction data from organic chemistry journals. SciFinder Scholar includes bibliographic databases like CAPLUS and MEDLINE as well as chemical reaction and substance databases. Web of Science provides access to citation indexes and allows forward and backward searching of references. Scopus contains over 15,000 peer-reviewed journal titles and references back to 1996.

1. INFORMATION ABOUT
SOME DATABASES

2. OUTLINE
 Beilstein Database
 Scifinder Scholar Database
 Web of Science
 Scopus
 Comparision between WoS & Scopus

3. BEILSTEIN DATABASE
 The documents from the Beilstein Handbook
of Organic Chemistry as well as data from
176 leading journals in organic chemistry
 Titles, abstracts and bibliograpic data of the
citations in Beilstein, published from 1980 to
the present
 Updated quarterly

4. BEILSTEIN DATABASE
(cont.)
 A substance record contains Beilstein Registry
Number, the CAS Registry Number,structure
diagram, molecular formula etc. (searchable and
displayable)
 Reaction data more than 8.1 million substances
 More than 9.428.000 substance records
 Database is in English except for some fields that
also contain German terms.

5. SciFinder Scholar Database
SciFinder Scholar includes:
Bibliographic databases:
CAPLUS (Chemical Abstracts): Contains
journal articles, patents, conference
proceedings, technical reports, reviews etc.
back to 1907. In addition to chemistry it covers
geology, materials science, biology, medicine,
food science, agriculture, polymer science,
physics and engineering.
MEDLINE: Covers biomedical sciences dating
from 1951 to the present.

6. SciFinder Scholar Database
(cont.)
 Chemical reactions database:
CASREACT: Contains more than 8 million
single- and multi-step reactions.
 Chemical substance databases:
CAS REGISTRY: Contains data on more than
23 million substance and 43million sequence
records, the substances identified from the
scientific literature from 1957 to the present
with some classes going back to the early
1900s.
CHEMLIST CHEMCATS

7. Web of Science
 Access to the Science Citation Index®
(1900-present),
Social Sciences Citation Index® (1956-
present),
Arts & Humanities Citation Index®
(1975-present),
Index Chemicus® (1993-present),
Current Chemical Reactions® (1986-
present).

8. Web of Science (cont.)
 Navigate backward in time using
cited references to uncover the
research that influenced an author's
work
 Navigate forward in time using
Times Cited to discover the impact
a paper or other published item has
had on current research

9. Web of Science (cont.)
 Link to the full text of primary
literature
 Export records directly to leading
biblographic management
programs: EndNote®, Reference
Manager® and ProCite®
 Use the Analyze tool to view an
analysis of search results

10. Scopus
 Is the largest abstract and citation database of
research literature and quality web sources
 Over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more
than 4,000 international publishers
 References go back to 1996,and abstracts go
back to 1966
 Includes Life Sciences,Health Sciences,
Physical Sciences and Social Sciences

12. THANK YOU!
Science Faculty Librarian
Hande Uçartürk
Phone: 290 12 82
E-mail: hucar@bilkent.edu.tr