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SciFinder Scholar provides an index with abstracts to material in chemistry, biotechnology, agricultural chemistry, toxicology, environmental science, medicine, food science, packaging, petroleum products and related subject areas from 1947 onwards. It includes Medline and articles, books, conference proceedings, technical reports and patents. SciFinder Scholar replaces Chemical Abstracts (print).

Access and Users:

To use SciFinder Scholar, you need client software installed on your computer. This software can only be downloaded by current staff and students of the University of Tasmania and use of SciFinder is controlled by IP address authentication. Software is available for Windows and Mac .  Access is limited to FOUR simultaneous users.

Help sheet:

Getting started (pdf, 88KB) - 2007 version for Windows produced by SciFinder Scholar.   
 How to guides   and SciFinder strategies for specific types of chemistry are available from CAS.

SciFinder Scholar 2007 offers powerful new features:

  • Categorize references—this tool enables you to sort and evaluate information in your answer sets by creating a histogram for easy analysis.  Categorize separates related references on the basis of their associated CA index terms.  With categorize, you can reassemble the different subsets in unique ways creating opportunities for new insights.
  • Save answers—now you can save answer lists of references, substances, or reactions and re-use them later in other SciFinder Scholar sessions.
  • Combine answer sets - the combine tool makes it possible to focus on a particular research topic in new ways by combining the substances, reactions, and references in an active answer set with those in a previously saved one.   By employing various options of Combine, Intersect, or Remove, you can manipulate and customize the information contained in these combined answer sets. 
  • Export commercial chemicals records from CHEMCATS® into Excel—create reports listing your favorite commercial sources, including contact information and pricing, for substances of interest. Catalog information is exported into Excel spreadsheets for sorting, manipulation, and reference.
  • Explore from substance displays—become more productive by using a substance record display to launch a new search or refine a previous one.
  • Print structures in grid format—gain a unique comparative view of multiple chemical structures by printing them side by side in this handy grid arrangement.
  • Compatible with Windows VistaTM and Mac OS X

Scholar 2007 Client download instructions:

Windows:

Download Scifinder 2007 (you will be prompted for your UTas email POP username and password) and then:

  1. Use Winzip to extract sfs2007.exe, site.prf and site.jnl files to the temp directory on your C drive (C:\temp) or your usual download destination. (If you have problems obtaining WinZip software contact the Service Desk, ext 1818).
  2. Double click on sfs2007.exe file in that temp directory.
  3. Click on the Setup button.
  4. Click Next on the Welcome screen.
  5. Click on Next to Accept the default location for installation.
  6. If you receive a warning about another version of Scifinder existing in this directory, click on Yes or alternatively select a new location if you want to keep your current version.
  7. Make sure that Typical Installation is selected  and click on Next.
  8. When asked if you have a disk labelled Custom Site Files select No.
  9. Click on Next on the Select Folder for Icons screen.
  10. Choose if you want to install the Scifinder toolbar (this is optional, for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer (v5.01 or later) and is ~1.8MB).
  11. Click on Finish once the installation is completed.
  12. Drag the site.prf and site.jnl files that you have downloaded from the temp directory into the directory that you have just installed Scifinder (i.e. C:\sfschlr). Select Yes if asked to replace the current file.
  13. Start SciFinder Scholar 2007 from your program menu.

Viewer add-on software for Windows
Discovery Studio (TM) Viewer products from Accelrys (http://www.accelrys.com ) are visualization tools that allow you to view 3D molecular models for structure results. Please be advised that only DS Visualizer versions 1.5 or earlier work  with SciFinder Scholar 2007.  Installing DS Visualizer 1.7, the current version available from the Accelrys web site, will cause 3D viewing to stop functioning with SciFinder Scholar 2007.

To remedy any dysfunction with DS Visualizer 1.7: please install the ViewerLite software and the ViewerLite patch.
Viewerlite 5.0 is no longer supported by Accelrys, Inc. but, for a limited time, may be downloaded free of charge by SciFinder customers. Download this exe file, 5782KB. 
A software patch that corrects the viewing of 3D models with Accelrys Viewer products when accessed from SciFinder is available here - download this zip file, 983 KB and the readme text file , 7KB.

 

Macs:

1. Download the 2007 self-extracting executable file (14.2MB) and save it into a temporary folder. (You will be prompted to give your UTas email POP user name and password).
2.Double-click on sfs2007.sitx to extract the installer and the site.prf file.
3. Double-click on the “SciFinder Scholar Installer” icon in the sfs2007 folder.
4. Follow the prompts to complete the installation. 
5. Copy the site.prf file from the sfs2007 folder to the folder you have just installed Scifinder into.

 

Terms and conditions of access:

All users of SciFinder Scholar must agree to the following conditions when they first use the client software:

"By clicking the Accept button below, I hererby agree to all the terms and conditions set forth in this license agreement.

1) I am a current faculty or administrative staff member, or officially registered student of the University;

2) I will use SciFinder Scholar only for my own academic research done in the course of pursuing my degree, or in instructing my students, or, in the course of my own research funded by the government or a non-profit foundation and intended for publication in the publicly available literature;

3) I will NOT use SciFinder Scholar for commercial research; for example, research that is done under a funding or consultant contract where the results are delivered to a for-profit organization, or for research that involves patentability searching. If I require SciFinder for commercial purposes, I will have the search done using a commercial account by contacting the librarian responsible for chemistry searches on campus, by contacting CAS and having them perform a search for me, or by acquiring and using the commercial SciFinder product;

4) I will use my search results in the ordinary course of academic research and acknowledge that I may store search results in electronic form for the duration of research projects, provided that at any one time, I store no more than 5,000 records. I may share search results in a limited, reasonable way with other University students or faculty working on the same project, but I will not aggregate my electronic search results with those of anyone else. I will delete stored records when I no longer need them for the relevant research project, or after the completion of my degree program, whichever occurs first. If I need to use search results beyond what is described here, I will contact my University Key Contact to discuss and to obtain CAS permission. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM NOT PERMITTED TO DISTRIBUTE ANY CAS DATA OR SCIFINDER SCHOLAR, FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN OR OTHERWISE, OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY OR TO THIRD PARTIES.

5) I acknowledge that the University has entered into a license agreement with CAS to provide me with access to SciFinder Scholar, and that violation of the license by any user could result in a termination of the license for all users.

6) I will contact the University's Key Contact with any questions related to the use of SciFinder Scholar."

In addition, this is a summary of the key terms and conditions governing our use of SciFinder Scholar.

"The following is a brief summary of the key terms and conditions agreed to by your consortium in licensing SciFinder Scholar.  Not all license terms are contained in this document and any conflicts between this document and the complete CAS SciFinder Scholar License Agreement will be governed by the complete license.   Please contact your consortium for the full text of the Agreement should you have any questions about your use of SciFinder Scholar.  Please acknowledge your receipt of this summary.

Permitted Use of SciFinder Scholar.   Authorized Users are permitted to use SciFinder Scholar only for Academic Research.   Academic Research is educational research done in the usual course in the pursuit of a degree, instructional (i.e., educational and training) use in a classroom setting; or research by faculty and students which is funded by the government or non-profit research foundations and intended for publication in the publicly available literature.   To qualify as Academic Research, the research must not involve patentability searching, . which is defined as the comprehensive search of prior art in the context of seeking a patent.  Commercial Research is research other than Academic Research; for example, research performed under a funding or consultant contract with the intention of delivering results to a for-profit organization, or patentability research.

Reasonableness of Use.    CAS will monitor the volume of searching and answer downloading activity associated with each Authorized I.P. Address on a routine basis, for the purposes of: (1) benchmarking what "average" use is among Authorized I.P. Address( es), and (2) noting any significant variance in patterns of usage for particular Authorized IP Address(es).   CAS may ask the Key Contact and the Authorized User(s) involved to discuss any usage pattern(s) CAS questions and, if necessary, to work with CAS to reach a solution if a problem is uncovered.  If, however, as a result of such inquiry CAS learns that "excessive" or unusual use or any particular use is related to non-compliance with any provision of this Agreement, and depending on the scope of the non-compliance, CAS will instruct a Member University with written notice to bar certain individuals from using SciFinder Scholar, may bar a Member University from using SciFinder Scholar, or may elect to terminate the Agreement.   CAS will also have available to it all other remedies available under applicable law and in equity.

Permitted Data Use.   The uses of CAS data which are permitted by CAS, are as follows:    Authorized Users may make use of CAS data obtained as a result of SciFinder Scholar searches in the ordinary course of Academic Research and may store search results in electronic form, provided that at any one time, no more than 5,000 records are stored by an Authorized User.  Authorized Users are permitted to search only for themselves and may share their search results in a reasonable, limited way with other students or faculty at the same Member University who are working on the same research project.   Any such sharing may not result in an aggregation of the electronic records stored by individual Authorized Users, nor in the creation of any central source of electronic records. If not in violation of this or any other data use provision of this Agreement, Members may share CAS data outside the Member institution in conformance with Member policies governing access to research information.   Typical examples of these Member policies are:   1)  Including some bibliographic citations and other data items derived from a database in published articles; 2)  Presentation of research findings at a conference, in a working paper or pre-print, or similar forum provided that the subject matter is not CAS techniques, databases or processes; and 3)   Sharing research information on request with another researcher or research agency wishing to examine Member's research activity or replicate a particular experiment, provided this information is not shared in the fulfillment of a contractual or "work for hire" obligation.   Stored records must be deleted when they are no longer needed by the Authorized User for the relevant research project, or after the completion of Authorized User's degree program, whichever occurs first.  Under no circumstances may CAS data or a collection of CAS data be used for any other purpose, including but not limited to distribution of data by assignment, sale, sublicense, loan or other means of transfer to any other Member University or to any third party, and any commercial use, whether paid or unpaid.   Any use beyond the limited use described herein requires the advance written permission of CAS.

Member Universities  will: (1) display the User Agreement text provided by its consortium to all users in a printable form, and require the user to scroll through the text and indicate agreement (e.g., click-wrap agreement) prior to the initial download of the SciFinder Scholar client software from the Member University network to the Authorized User's personal computer; and (2) use other reasonable efforts to communicate the Permitted Data Use rights to Authorized Users.

I.P. Addresses.   Member Universities must report to their consortium all Authorized I.P. Address information, by Site, and may use SciFinder Scholar only through its respective Authorized I.P. Addresses.   These I.P. Addresses must be unique to the Member University .  When temporarily at locations other than the Site, Authorized Users may connect via telephone lines (dial-in access) through Authorized I.P. Addresses to use SciFinder Scholar.

Security.    Member Universities will use reasonable efforts to ensure that only Authorized Users have access to SciFinder Scholar.  Member Universities must provide network-wide system security such that all Authorized Users must be required to prove their authorized status prior to each instance of downloading the SciFinder Scholar software from a Member University's ftp site and prior to each instance of connecting to the Member University network via telephone dial-in to access SciFinder Scholar.  If, in addition, Member University's campus network security protocols will support password-protection for every SciFinder Scholar program launch (i.e., every use of SciFinder Scholar), Member University agrees to implement this.

Public Access and Library Terminals.    Member Universities acknowledge that the SciFinder Scholar product is not intended to support any use other than that by Authorized Users, e.g., use by walk-in visitors or general-public library patrons is not allowed.  CAS acknowledges that Member Universities may be unable to segregate public or library computer terminals from the rest of the Member University network, and that occasional walk-in, public use of SciFinder Scholar may occur.  If Member University's campus network will support password-protection for every use of SciFinder Scholar in the library setting, Member University agrees to implement this.  Member Universities will, in any case, prominently display a notice near all terminals, or electronically on the terminal screen, to which the public has access and on which SciFinder Scholar is available, indicating that SciFinder Scholar is for use only by Member University students and faculty, and not the general public.

Member Enforcement.    Member Universities acknowledge the ACS' copyright and ownership interests in SciFinder Scholar, that SciFinder Scholar is a principal product of CAS and the importance to CAS of maintaining these rights in the product and in CAS data.  In addition to its other obligations, Member Universities promise to use reasonable efforts to monitor usage of SciFinder Scholar for compliance with the terms of this Agreement, and will notify CAS immediately of any suspected violation by any user.   Member Universities will use reasonable efforts to fully cooperate with CAS in investigating any suspected violation, and will take such action as reasonably requested by CAS, or which it deems in its good judgment to be necessary, to correct such violation.   Member Universities will be responsible for any failure on its part to act in compliance with this paragraph.

Consortium and Member Universities Limitation of Liability.   The Consortium and Member Universities will exercise reasonable, good faith efforts:  1) to inform Authorized Users of the restrictions addressed in this Exhibit IV and in Sections A-K of paragraph 2 of the Agreement with respect to the use of SciFinder Scholar, including all data accessed therewith, and all optional add-on modules (the "Restrictions"); 2) to enforce the Restrictions; 3) to investigate with CAS any violation or suspected violation of any of the Restrictions, whether by   Authorized User(s) or not; and 4) to cooperate with CAS in the resolution of the matter.   Member Universities agree, at CAS' request, to review from time to time with CAS the efforts described above and to make such changes thereto as reasonably necessary.   Neither the consortium nor Member Universities will be liable to CAS for the actions of an individual user who has acted without the knowledge or consent of the consortium or the Member Universities, provided the consortium and the Member Universities are in compliance with the requirements of   this Exhibit IV and sections A-L of paragraph 2 of the Agreement.

Confidentiality.  Member Universities agree to keep the specific terms of this Agreement strictly confidential as if it were their own confidential information; for example, Member Universities may not post any Agreement text or synopsis to the Internet or a Website except as specifically permitted herein.

Key Contact.    Member Universities will designate an Authorized User to be its Key Contact for SciFinder Scholar.  Member Universities will provide CAS with necessary contact information immediately if a Key Contact is added or changed.  The Key Contact will arrange for the download of the SciFinder Scholar client software from the CAS server both initially and as maintenance releases become available and appropriately customize it for use at a given Site.   Customization means keying in the loginid and password and determining software preference settings.   The Key Contact is also responsible for ensuring that the client software is loaded on the Member University network such that only Authorized Users have access and may download copies.

The Key Contact will serve as the first point of contact for any Authorized User question about SciFinder Scholar.   As necessary, the Key Contact may request CAS Help Desk and Customer Service support via telephone during regular service hours.   The Key Contact will also serve as CAS' first point of contact at a Member University Site for any questions or issues that may arise related to use of SciFinder Scholar during the term of this Agreement.  In the event that CAS inquires regarding use of SciFinder Scholar under the provisions of the Reasonableness of Use paragraph, the Key Contact will use best efforts to assist CAS in exploring and resolving any issues, which will include best efforts to identify Authorized Users associated with Authorized I.P. Addresses.  The Key Contact is responsible for arranging for signature and returning this form to CAS.  It may be faxed to CAS Legal Administration at 614-447-3939."

 

 

 




 



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