article by Paul Ginsparg.

Washington Post article.

Dr. Lee Smith has developed training materials and personally delivered training programs to both Corporate and Academic researchers on the effective use of structure-searchable chemistry databases, including the Crossfire suite of databases, since 1998. Lee received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1996 after completing undergraduate work at the California State University.
To register, please e-mail Judy Matthews at matthe20@msu.edu

MSU Libraries now offers access to Beilstein/Gmelin/Patents via Reaxys, a new platform for Beilstein/Gmelin:

Reaxys (1771+) is a database of chemical compound properties, structures, and reactions with references to the journal and patent literature of chemistry. The data originates from the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry, the Beilstein Handbuch der Organischen Chemie and a Patent Chemistry database. Has flexible and powerful searching by substance, property and/or reaction. Substance searching includes exact structure, substructure, CAS number, molecular formula, name, and many more choices.

See http://www.info.reaxys.com/event to register for one of the weekly webinars to learn more about Reaxys and how it enhances the exploration of chemical substance information.

You may still access Beilstein by downloading and installing the Crossfire software. You will need the information below to use Crossfire:

Host address: beilstein.library.wisc.edu
Group Name: michstat
User ID: mstgm
Password: 67ttxc12
URL for your Article Resolver: http://catalog.lib.msu.edu:4550/resserv

Some of the new features include:

· Get similar reactions
· Limit reaction searches by select solvents
· Sort reaction answer sets (e.g., by number of steps, percentage yield, publication year, or similarity)
· Export physical property data to Microsoft® Excel®
· Tag references with helpful descriptive user-defined terms
· Add comments to references for sharing information and insights with colleagues
· Link to other SciFinder users within your research site to share both research comments and tagged references

Some features you know from the client version:

Variable number of answers per page
Variable number of columns per page – structure scale
Customizable abstract display
Combine Keep Me Posted results
Next/Previous detail

New content enhancements include:

· View 13C-NMR Predicted Spectra for 25 million substances

In addition, several performance and usability improvements have been included in the enhancement. Training and support resources are available at www.cas.org.

Thank you for using SciFinder. If you have any questions, please contact CAS at help@cas.org, 800-753-4227 (North America), 614-447-3700 (worldwide), or through your CAS Representative.

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