SciFinder Content Update

Session Agenda
New SciFinder is ready to use
Current SciFinder data overview
Content enhancements in SciFinder
SciFinder training resources

The new SciFinder is ready to use

The current SciFinder data overview

CAplusSM - >31 million bibliographic references from 1840 today

From more than 10.000 journals, patents, books, e- docs etc.

CASREACT - >18 million reactions from 1840 - today

CAS REGISTRYSM
Small chemical molecules: more than 48 million
Sequences: more than 61 million

CHEMCATS - >35 million commercially available compounds

from more than 1000 catalogues from more than 900 suppliers
CHEMLIST - regulatory data for 248,000 substances from 103
listings (www.cas.org/ASSETS/C280569107874800980DE9EF07057315/chemlistlists.pdf)
MEDLINE - >18 million bibliographic references from 1950 - today
From more than 4800 journals, books

Content enhancements in SciFinder

SciFinder backfile content
Patent enhancements
Additional
Substance information
Property information
Reaction information
CHEMLIST information

SciFinder backfile content I

Additional patent content:
1250 chemistry-relevant U.S. patents (1808-1859)
Sum U.S. patent records 1.8 million (1808-2008)

Additional journal content:

70,957 records Chemisches Zentralblatt (1897-1906)
53,500 records Journal of the Chemical Society, Abstracts (18901906)
2,600 records Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions
(1878-1906)

SciFinder backfile content II

SciFinder patent content and patent news I

Patent content:
59 patent offices are covered, > 6.7 million documents
The top 9 offices have the 2/27 days rule
Details about patent coverage:
www.cas.org/expertise/cascontent/caplus/patcoverage/

Patent news:
China:
Bibliographic information within 14 days
Indexed within 49 days

SciFinder patent content and patent news II

Korea:
Bibliographic information within 14 days

Utility Models (Gebrauchsmuster):

German granted utility models back to 2000

Japanese utility models applications back to 2006
Korean utility model applications back to 2006
Korean granted utility models back to 2006
Chinese granted utility models back to 2006

SciFinder patent content and patent news III

PCT and the first national equivalents (US, DE, GB,
FR, CA, EP) are covered as separate basics to
capture possible unique chemical content (7/2008)

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SciFinder patent content and patent news IV

Unique to
PCT
Application

Appear in
Both PCT
and EP
Applications

Unique to
EP
Application

Number of
Newly
Registered
Substances
Indexed

18

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Number of
Existing
Substances
Indexed

Number of
Subject
Indexing Terms

18

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Additional substance information I

Prophetic substances from patents are included
Specific substances described but not characterized, appearing
in the examples, but not appearing in the claims section
No additional supporting evidence, such as a physical property
or yield is available
Valid for (US, EP, WO, GB, CA, FR, DE, JP from January 2008)

Substances are indexed if they are identified

by
Name or structure
Appear in a table
Additional indexing appears for known substances reporting
novel or new uses without substantiation

Reactions with prophetic substances in

CASREACT
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Additional substance information II

Backfile:
Prophetics extend back to 2003
(WO,US,EP,GB,DE,FR,RU,CA)
Prophetics extended back to 2008 (JP)
Efforts to produce a further backfile are underway

Overview 07/2009:
>18 200 patents with prophetics
>7.9 million substances in REGISTRY indexed as
prophetics
>4.4 million substances in REGISTRY indexed only as
prophetics

Get references from substances now includes a

prophetic role search option
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Additional substance information III

WO 2007140383

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Additional substance information IV

Old CAS data:

Addition of 600 000 CAS Registry Numbers 1957-1966 to SciFinder
(former part of old CAS data, STN-CAOLD)
The 600 000 RNs are included in 300,000 SciFinder Records

Internet structure collections:

07/2009 >1.4 million CAS Registry Numbers from Internet structure
collection
Conditions to be included:
Described in largely unambiguous terms
Characterized by physical methods or described in a patent
document example or claim
Source information: other source, chemical catalog, chemical
library, databases, etc.
e.g., Other Sources
Database: ChemSynthesis Database (Chemical Synthesis
Database)
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Additional substance information V

Helpful resource on substances without references:

www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/stnarticles/zerorefs.html

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Additional property information I

REGISTRY is a rich source of property
information
> 37,980,000 predicted properties
19 different properties
www.cas.org/ASSETS/ED9BA6DD755647C781A93B559326E9B3/propde
finitions.pdf

> 2,756,000 experimental tags (citation links)

204 different properties
www.cas.org/ASSETS/9026A7E221F247BBBB7383A1127AFC24/tagged
properties.pdf

> 2,551,000 experimental properties

12 different properties
www.cas.org/ASSETS/ED9BA6DD755647C781A93B559326E9B3/propde
finitions.pdf
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Additional property information II

Focus on spectra:
Spectra

Graphical

Property tags

1H-NMR

184,800

1,716,600

13C-NMR

145,000

825,700

Mass

104,300
1,123,500
And > 25 million predicted H NMR
IR
93,250component substances
1,030,000
for most single
in REGISTRY
Raman
2,900
17,300
19F-NMR

14,850

36,700

31P-NMR

8,700

68,400

29Si-NMR

1,200

6,500

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Additional property information III

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Additional property information IV

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Additional reaction information I

Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic
Synthesis (e-EROS version 2001) added
09/2008
Organic Syntheses and Organic Reactions
(1921-) added 12/2008
Coverage:
Reaction is in CASREACT
Indexed document is in CAplus
Links to Wiley InterScience for full-text articles
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Additional reaction information II

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Additional CHEMLIST information I

CHEMLIST includes 40,000 substances which
were pre-registered for REACH between June 1
and Oct 1, 2008 by the European Chemicals
Agency (ECHA)
See if substances have been pre-registered
and see the regulatory history

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Additional CHEMLIST information II

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Scientists can now link back into SciFinder from ACS

journal references

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SciFinder has very good training resources I

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SciFinder has very good training resources II

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Thank you for your attention

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