An introduction to carrying out a simple search in this specialist chemistry database and refining results for uses of a drug in treatment and it's bioactive components.

1. Developed by the American Chemical Society,
SciFinder provides access to chemical literature,
substances and reactions and patents.
Key word searching and research topic browsing
Grouping references according to search focus and
citation tracking provided;
Ability to search by substance or reactions;
 Can analyse results in a range of ways (for example
substances by uses, or bioactivity indicators. )
Limited links to full-text articles
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2. The SciFinder database link in OneSearch will take
you to this registration page.
https://scifinder.cas.org/scifinder/login
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Once you have set up your login with a UWA
email you can go directly to their website:

3. A search for “Rapivab” finds
these reference
To begin a basic search in SciFinder type in your Drug name
References are organised
by how strongly they are
represented in the citations
Select, Get References

4. Carry out a search for
the active drug
This first article provides the Active Drug name – Peramivir -
and important indexing and search terms.

5. You can further refine you results, for instance a focus on
“uses”
Reduces these results from 809 to 152.

6. The “Analyse” tab
provides another way to
limit and view results.

7. Important features of the full record
Attempts to link to full text – if you are asked to
pay, search for the article/journal in OneSearch
Article and Source Title
(Journal or Book title etc)
Note any useful search terms.
Other articles citing this one
Citation list at bottom of record
more likely to be references.

8. Another way to review results
is to select a number of
references and then go to the
substances these relate to.
I chose 3 references
specifically about “Peramiver”.
You can then analyse there
chemical properties. In this
instance focusing on
“Bioactivity indicators”