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Reaxys 60-day trial from Sept 1st 2009
User training 2.00 pm Friday, Sept 4th Unilever Lecture Theatre - all welcome.
To book a place please email: library@ch.cam.ac.uk
Reaxys is a 'task-driven', web-based application combining the full content of Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases and offers:
-single results set (ie reaction information from all three databases is merged into one substance (reaction) record.)
-synthesis planner for target compounds
-multi-step reactions
-structure queries from names or phrases
-search result filters
-results visualisation in tabular display
-similarity searching
-transformation analysis
There is unlimited simultaneous access for subscribers.
Information about commercial availability is provided through matches in the Available Chemicals Directory (Symyx database provided via DiscoveryGate for which Cambridge University currently has a licence.)
Linking to full-text journals is possible through ScienceDirect and patent publications through Espacenet (European Patent Office and USPTO (US Patent Office.)
Links to citing papers in Scopus are possible ie ‘cited-by’ information.
Current customers of Discoverygate will be given the option to migrate fully to Reaxys in October 2009 or to maintain access to Crossfire hosted by MIMAS alongside Reaxys. It will be possible to join the the JISC Reaxys agreement from November 1st 2009.
Crossfire will be supported by Elsevier until end 2010. However, Crossfire hosted by MIMAS will cease to exist as a service from January 2011.
News from the Chemical Database Service - Daresbury
"The latest ICSD update is now available via CrystalWeb and ICSD-WWW.
Also the coordination search facility within CrystalWeb has been
restored.
The latest version of the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD
2008/2) has been added to CrystalWeb. There are 4,579 more entries as
compared to Version 2008/1. The total number of ICSD entries is now
108,258. The overall number of searchable entries within CrystalWeb is
773,633.
We are also pleased to announce that coordination searching has been
restored to the CrystalWeb Formula and Coordination Search Form.
Apologies for the previous problems with this option, which took
longer than expected to resolve.
Coordination searching is available for all component databases except
the NIST Crystal Data Identification File. We have also taken the
opportunity to remove the maximum coordination limit. This was
previously restricted to a maximum of 8-coordinate systems.
For the latest information follow the links:
http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/news/disp?crystalweb http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/news/disp?icsd
We have also posted update messages on the CDS Homepage
Our Homepage is at: http://cds.dl.ac.uk
Check there for additional News and other Information."
Did you know...
...about SPRESIweb?
Information from Bob McMeeking, EPSRC Chemical Database Service.
"SPRESI is a database consisting of chemical structures and reaction information providing direct access to over
6.1 million structures and 3.85 million reactions.
It also includes over 31.7 million pieces of additional information such as chemical and physical properties,
reaction conditions and keywords abstracted from the primary literature.
It can thus be compared to both the SciFinder and Beilstein/CrossFire and probably Index Chemicus, and I believe it provides addition and complementary material to all of them.
The rights to the SPRESI are held by InfoChem GmbH and the Chemical Database Service (CDS) at Daresbury has made arrangements to make the SPRESIweb system available to its user community for a full evaluation trial. If this is successful we hope to be able to make the system available to the UK academic community on reasonable terms.
The CDS provides a full range of databases free at the point of user access. It currently operates under a contract with the EPSRC.Any long term funding mechanisms for addition systems such as SPRESIweb are yet to be decided, but feedback and advice from the community is most welcome at any time.
Any member of the UK academic community can register to use the CDS. As mentioned all components of the Service are available free of charge to eligible users. We have recently sent up an Express Registration procedure and you should expect to receive your username and password by email within 10 mins of submitting the online registration form. Further details of SPRESIweb are available via the link: http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/datasets/orgchem/spresi/spresi.html For general details of the Service go to the frontpage."
Dr R.F. McMeeking
EPSRC Chemical Database Service
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Daresbury Laboratory
Warrington
WA4 4AD
Tel: +44 (0)1925 603669
Fax: +44 (0)1925 603031
E-mail robert.mcmeeking@stfc.ac.uk
Access to ACD/Labs Online (I-Lab) is freely available in Academia provided by the Chemical Database Service.
The service includes free NMR Prediction (1H, 13C, 15N, 19F and 31PNMR), Physical Property Prediction (e.g. pKa, Log P, Log D and more), and Chemical Nomenclature.