SciFinder Scholar, CA Student Edition, or General Science Abstracts:

1. Which should you ask your library to buy? SciFinder Scholar, CA Student Edition, or General Science Abstracts: Patricia E. Kirkwood University of Arkansas Engineering and Mathematics Librarian

2. We are a small school We have no access to a consortia We need to meet the CPT guidelines Libraries want a defined cost with campus wide access The Issue to resolve

3. Undergraduate Professional Education in Chemistry – Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures, 2/27/2007 draft • http://acswebcontent.acs.org/education/cpt/cpt_newdraftguidelines.pdf • Library Requirements • http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\cpt\library.html Committee for Professional Training

4. Students must have print or electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, including the ability to search and access full abstracts. 4.4 Chemical Information Resources

5. Available where: • SciFinder Scholar • STN on the Web • STN Easy • CAS Student Edition http://www.cas.org/Support/educ.html Chemical Abstracts

6. The student conducts undergraduate research with a faculty advisor, allowing the student to draw on faculty expertise and encouraging a student-faculty mentor relationship. The research project should be envisioned as a component of a publication in a peer-reviewed journal. It should be well-defined, stand a reasonable chance of completion in the available time, apply and develop an understanding of in-depth concepts, use a variety of instrumentation, and be grounded in the chemical literature. 6. Undergraduate Research

7. 7.2 Chemical Literature Skills. Students should be able to use the peer-reviewed scientific literature effectively and evaluate technical articles critically. They should learn how to retrieve specific information from the chemical literature, including the use of Chemical Abstracts and other compilations, with online, interactive database-searching tools. Approved programs must provide instruction on the effective retrieval and use of the chemical literature. A specific course is an excellent means of imparting information-retrieval skills, though such a course usually would not qualify as an in-depth course. Integrating the use of these skills into several individual courses is also an effective approach. Both library and online exercises should be a part of such instruction. 7. Development of Student Skills

8. We have less that 5K a year for 35 FTE students to learn chemical searching And our faculty need access to Chemical Abstracts as well. We have an excellent librarian, however, chemistry is not one of his subject strengths. Who is going to teach the students about information retrieval? Added issues

9. SciFinder Scholar • CA Student Edition • General Science Abstracts All use controlled vocabulary. All available for under $5K All index selective science journals with titles used by undergraduates in their assignments included. Three possible products

10. Librarians and scientists look at databases differently. You need a product that students can become comfortable with rather quickly that doesn’t hide the realities of this process. Database features

11. 1 seat shared between 3 schools • Access to full features of Scholar including structure searching • Includes – • Chemical Abstracts (including Registry) • ChemCats • CASReacts • Medline SciFinder Scholar http://cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html

12. Over 9,500 currently published journals and patent information from more than 50 active patent issuing authorities Dissertations Conferences 1890 – SciFinder Scholar basics

13. Client server software Not available off campus Requires special set up for training account access Is not a search engine non-science librarians are comfortable Restricted to 1 user at a time. SciFinder Scholar ISSUES

14. Available through OCLC First Search – an interface that is familiar to many librarians 316 Journals (all ACS journals, all but 1CPT recommended journals) indexed No conferences included Dissertations included No patents included 1967 to current Uses RN and all controlled vocabulary of full CA Does not have the registry file component CA Student Edition http://cas.org/New1/student.html

15. HW Wilson Product Available on many platforms with and without full text added 300 journals in all science areas with a large focus in chemistry and biology Controlled vocabulary General Science Abstracts information

16. SciFinder Scholar indexes all CPT required and recommended journals, but not every article of every journal. CA Student Edition is a subset of SciFinder General Science Abstracts has journal that are most likely available at small institutions or through Interlibrary Loan Content analysis

17. I. GENERAL CONTENT • Accounts of Chemical Research • Angewandte Chemie International Edition • Chemical Communications • Chemical Reviews • Chemical Society Reviews • Journal of Chemical Education • Journal of the American Chemical Society • Nature • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Science CPT journal recommendations

18. Analytical Chemistry • Biochemistry • Chemistry of Materials • Dalton Transactions • Environmental Science & Technology • Faraday Discussions • Inorganic Chemistry • Journal of Biological Chemistry • Journal of Chemical Physics • The Journal of Organic Chemistry • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B • Langmuir • Macromolecules • Nature - Structural Biology • Organic Letters • Organometallics • Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry CPT journal recommendations Highly recommended

19. CPT Also recommends Applied Spectroscopy Biochemical Journal Bioconjugate Chemistry Bioorganic Chemistry Canadian Journal of Chemistry Chemical Physics Letters Chemistry - A European Journal Chemistry and Biology Chemistry Letters (Japan) European Journal of Biochemistry European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry European Journal of Organic Chemistry Helvetica Chimica Acta Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Inorganica Chimica Acta Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Journal of Catalysis  Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation Journal of Chromatography Journal of Coordination Chemistry Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Journal of Molecular Biology Journal of Organometallic Chemistry Journal of Polymer Science Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry New Journal of Chemistry Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Pure and Applied Chemistry Spectrochimica Acta Tetrahedron Tetrahedron Letters Trends in Biochemical Sciences

20. coverage in summary 55 Titles in common • 7 of 10 general content titles • 7 of 18 highly recommended titles • 1 of 34 also recommended titles • SciFinder Scholar • All recommended titles and many many more • Chemical Abstracts Student Edition • all remaining general titles • 10 of 11 remaining highly recommended titles • 26 of 33 remaining also recommended titles • General Science Abstracts  • 1 of the remaining highly recommended titles

21. Review Journals in Common • Reviews of Modern Physics • Annual Review of Biochemistry • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science • Annual Review of Genetics • Annual Review of Microbiology • Annual Review of Neuroscience • Annual Review of Physical Chemistry • Annual Review of Physiology • Annual Review of Plant Biology

22. Other common titles • American Journal of Botany • American Journal of Human Genetics • American Journal of Physiology • American Journal of Science • American Zoologist • Applied and Environmental Microbiology • The Biological Bulletin • Canadian Journal of Chemistry • Cell • Chemical Innovation • Developmental Biology • Environmental Health Perspectives • Genetics • Geological Society of America Bulletin

23. Common Titles also include • Nature • The New England Journal of Medicine • New Scientist • Perspectives in Biology and Medicine • Physics Today • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America • Science • Scientific American • Integrative and Comparative Biology • JAMA • Journal of Bacteriology • The Journal of Cell Biology • The Journal of Experimental Biology • The Journal of General Physiology • The Journal of Geology • The Journal of Nutrition

24. ACS titles NOT in GSA • Bioconjugate Chemistry • ACS Chemical Biology • ACS Nano  NEW IN 2007 • Chemical Research in Toxicology • Chemistry of Materials • Crystal Growth & Design • Energy & Fuels • Industrial & Engineering • Chemistry Research • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry • Journal of the American Chemical Society • Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data • Organometallics • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation • Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry • Journal of Proteome Research • Langmuir • Macromolecules • Molecular PharmaceuticsNano Letters • Organic Letters • Organic Process Research & Development

25. Predictable pricing Access – time restrictions, access limits, Timely access Student training Software and computing requirements Library concerns

26. The known tool for locating chemical information • Interdisciplinary • Robust • Required by CPT • Small schools need this certification • Also need access for faculty research and student research projects Why Chemical Abstracts

27. Control vocabulary • Breadth of chemical literature • Interdisciplinary nature of chemistry • Boolean Logic • The two step process • Identify the article • Determine how to get the article Skills that can be taught in either version of chemical abstracts

28. Structure searching Registry File Citation trails Reaction searching When do your students need to learn these skills? Skills that can not be taught with CA student Edition

29. STN Easy STN on the Web These versions are “pay as you go” and could be used to enhance access for research access as well as structure searching Other alternatives not explored