01.06.2007: CAS AND HBZ RENEW SCIFINDER SCHOLAR(tm) AGREEMENT
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CAS Research Tool Delivers New Search and Analysis Options to 65 German
Academic Institutions
COLUMBUS, Ohio - June 1, 2007 - For the fifth consecutive year, CAS and
the hbz consortium, the North-Rhine Westphalia Service Centre for
Libraries of Germany's largest state (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des
Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen), have renewed an agreement to provide
SciFinder Scholar, the premier academic research discovery tool, to 57
universities and 8 Bachelor schools in Germany. In addition to providing
ongoing access to CAS databases, the most comprehensive chemical and
related scientific information, SciFinder Scholar will, by this summer,
include new options and features of SciFinder(r) 2007 to enhance the
exploration of CAS' resources.
"We are delighted that the hbz consortium is making SciFinder Scholar
widely available in Germany and look forward to a continued partnership
in the years to come," said Dr. Schomburg, leader of the hbz SciFinder
Scholar consortium and Deputy Chief of the hbz. "German students and so
many others around the world will find the new elements of SciFinder
Scholar enjoyable and easy to use, resulting in highly productive and
thorough research."
For more than 30 years, the hbz has provided services and development
for university libraries as well as for other library types in and
beyond North-Rhine Westphalia. The hbz is meeting its objectives in
close cooperation with its customer libraries. In addition, and on a
regional and supra-regional level, it collaborates with institutions and
organizations, including librarianship and IT sectors. Based in Cologne,
Germany, hbz mediates access to 65 academic institutions.
Among other capabilities, SciFinder Scholar 2007 features will permit
researchers to:
-Combine answer sets for substances, reactions and references -
researchers will be able to combine answer sets in SciFinder Scholar, to
arrive at a focused set of answers; for example, references for a given
research topic can be combined with the results of an author search;
options to "combine," "intersect," or "remove" answer sets allow the
user to include only the desired answers from the saved and active sets.
-Explore from substance display - for added convenience, researchers
will be able to easily capture a chemical structure from a substance
answer display, then use it to search by structure in the massive CAS
Registry(sm) database.
-Print structures in thumbnail display format - multiple chemical
structures can be printed in a grid arrangement for an efficient
comparative view.
-Categorize Analysis Tool - This new feature allows the customer to
group references based on intuitive and focused scientific categories.
References can be more clearly grouped by similar themes, making
browsing and navigation of the literature easier. Both substances and
concept indexing are utilized in this new tool.
Save SciFinder Answers - researchers will be able to save search results
in a convenient, re-usable format allowing them to be re-opened in a
later SciFinder Scholar session.
SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool that provides campus-wide
access to the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of
chemical information from CAS, with an ease of use never before seen in
universities. Leading universities worldwide are now providing
SciFinder Scholar to chemistry and life sciences faculty and students to
facilitate their research using the same SciFinder technology that has
become "part of the process" for researchers in industry and government
around the world.
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, provides the world's
largest and most current collection of chemical and related scientific
information, including the most authoritative database of chemical
substances, the CAS Registry. CAS combines these databases with advanced
search and analysis technologies to deliver the most complete,
cross-linked and effective digital information environment for
scientific research and discovery, including such products as SciFinder,
SciFinder Scholar, STN(r), STN Express(r), and STN(r) AnaVist(tm), among
others. The CAS web site is www.cas.org
CAS Research Tool Delivers New Search and Analysis Options to 65 German
Academic Institutions
COLUMBUS, Ohio - June 1, 2007 - For the fifth consecutive year, CAS and
the hbz consortium, the North-Rhine Westphalia Service Centre for
Libraries of Germany's largest state (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des
Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen), have renewed an agreement to provide
SciFinder Scholar, the premier academic research discovery tool, to 57
universities and 8 Bachelor schools in Germany. In addition to providing
ongoing access to CAS databases, the most comprehensive chemical and
related scientific information, SciFinder Scholar will, by this summer,
include new options and features of SciFinder(r) 2007 to enhance the
exploration of CAS' resources.
"We are delighted that the hbz consortium is making SciFinder Scholar
widely available in Germany and look forward to a continued partnership
in the years to come," said Dr. Schomburg, leader of the hbz SciFinder
Scholar consortium and Deputy Chief of the hbz. "German students and so
many others around the world will find the new elements of SciFinder
Scholar enjoyable and easy to use, resulting in highly productive and
thorough research."
For more than 30 years, the hbz has provided services and development
for university libraries as well as for other library types in and
beyond North-Rhine Westphalia. The hbz is meeting its objectives in
close cooperation with its customer libraries. In addition, and on a
regional and supra-regional level, it collaborates with institutions and
organizations, including librarianship and IT sectors. Based in Cologne,
Germany, hbz mediates access to 65 academic institutions.
Among other capabilities, SciFinder Scholar 2007 features will permit
researchers to:
-Combine answer sets for substances, reactions and references -
researchers will be able to combine answer sets in SciFinder Scholar, to
arrive at a focused set of answers; for example, references for a given
research topic can be combined with the results of an author search;
options to "combine," "intersect," or "remove" answer sets allow the
user to include only the desired answers from the saved and active sets.
-Explore from substance display - for added convenience, researchers
will be able to easily capture a chemical structure from a substance
answer display, then use it to search by structure in the massive CAS
Registry(sm) database.
-Print structures in thumbnail display format - multiple chemical
structures can be printed in a grid arrangement for an efficient
comparative view.
-Categorize Analysis Tool - This new feature allows the customer to
group references based on intuitive and focused scientific categories.
References can be more clearly grouped by similar themes, making
browsing and navigation of the literature easier. Both substances and
concept indexing are utilized in this new tool.
Save SciFinder Answers - researchers will be able to save search results
in a convenient, re-usable format allowing them to be re-opened in a
later SciFinder Scholar session.
SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool that provides campus-wide
access to the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of
chemical information from CAS, with an ease of use never before seen in
universities. Leading universities worldwide are now providing
SciFinder Scholar to chemistry and life sciences faculty and students to
facilitate their research using the same SciFinder technology that has
become "part of the process" for researchers in industry and government
around the world.
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, provides the world's
largest and most current collection of chemical and related scientific
information, including the most authoritative database of chemical
substances, the CAS Registry. CAS combines these databases with advanced
search and analysis technologies to deliver the most complete,
cross-linked and effective digital information environment for
scientific research and discovery, including such products as SciFinder,
SciFinder Scholar, STN(r), STN Express(r), and STN(r) AnaVist(tm), among
others. The CAS web site is www.cas.org
