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Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM Tutorial

Introduction
Online Access to CA on CD
Start CA on CD
Basic CA on CD Citation
Browsable Fields in CA on CD
Keyword Searching
Author Searching
Molecular Formula Searching
Example Search Strategies
Compound Searching
Disp., Download & Prt. Results
Saving Search Queries
CA on CD Std. Abbreviations
Journal Title Abbreviations
Contact a Librarian
 
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Browsable Fields in Chemical Abstracts

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Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM provides a lot of browsable fields.

WORD (default) includes title and index field keywords

LANGUAGE language of original article (All abstracts are in English)

AUTHOR last name first

UPDATE month and year entered into the database

YEAR year of publication

CAS RN Chemical Abstracts Registry Number

ORGANIZATION university, company, institute, etc.

PATENT NUMBER PCT patent application number

COMPOUND chemical compound name using CAS nomenclature

GENERAL SUBJECT subject headings from the CA General Subject Index

DOCUMENT TYPE journal, conference, report, book, dissertation, patent, review

FORMULA molecular formula using Hill System, i.e. C25H10Br4O5, ClSn

JOURNAL abbreviated journal title

CA SECTION the 80 subject sections of Chemical Abstracts

CAN Chemical Abstracts Accession Number volume and abstract number i.e. 123:100121
 

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Last updated: January 16, 2008