Searching SciFinder Scholar Successfully
SciFinder Scholar, the premier database for locating chemical literature, is
available through computers in the library. It is not a web product that can be
accessed from computers everywhere. To get to SciFinder, go to Start, to All
Programs, [to Chemistry on some computers], to SciFinder Scholar 2007 Edition,
and then to SciFinder Scholar (beside a diamond-shaped icon). Trinity is allowed
only one user at a time; if you get a “busy signal” please try again later.
For the Chemistry 2119 lab assignment, you will be doing a search under
Explore > Explore Literature > Research Topic. Take your initial results and
refine them to get an appropriate group of references, following these steps:
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Click on Analyze/Refine at the bottom of the page.
Click on Refine.
Select Language; then choose English (or your preferred language).
Repeat 1 and 2; select Document Type.
Click in the Journal box.
Repeat 1 and 2; select Publication Year.
Type in the range of dates you want (e.g., 2006-2009) or just the starting
date followed by a hyphen (2006-).
8. To get to journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS),
repeat 1.
9. Click on Analyze.
10. Click the circle beside Journal Name and click OK.
11. The results will be a list of journals. You are likely to see the following
titles published by ACS: Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of the
American Chemical Society, Organometallics, and Organic Letters. Click
the boxes beside the ACS journal titles; then click on Get References.
12. On the results page, click on the microscope icon to get an abstract of an
article. All ACS journals will be available in full text to Trinity users. To
access the article itself, click on the page icon. You will be taken to
ChemPort, from which you’ll be redirected to PDF and/or HTML links to
your article.
13. For articles that are not available through ChemPort, you’ll be directed
instead to a Trinity U. Library link, where there are options for searching
the catalog or our list of journals, or for requesting the article through
Interlibrary Loan.
PLEASE EXIT SCIFINDER WHEN YOU’RE DONE!
If you have problems using SciFinder Scholar or locating journal articles, contact
Barbara MacAlpine, the science librarian, at X7343 or send email to
bmacalpi@trinity.edu.
Trinity University/Coates Library
March 2009