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Index Chemicus focuses on current awareness of new compounds and reports over 200,000 new compounds and synthetic intermediates each year, with coverage of over 1 million structures published in the literature since 1991. Covering the world's leading organic chemistry journals, Index Chemicus is a text- and substructure-searchable database. It serves as both a compound database and a current awareness tool, providing full graphical summaries, complete bibliographic information, and author abstracts for the papers it covers.

With Index Chemicus, a user can:

• keep up with the latest research
• find new ideas for projects
• track the work of other research groups
• save time in the laboratory and the library

Formats Available:

• Print
• CD-ROM
• Magnetic tape

Index Chemicus
Print Format

The print edition is a portable, easy-to-use reference for organic chemists that provides concise graphical summaries, bibliographic data, and author abstracts of articles reporting new compounds in the world's leading organic chemistry journals.

Features/Benefits:

• six integrated indexes for finding specific information:
  • Journal Index lists all publications covered in the issue
  • Keyword Index lets you track the work of specific authors
  • Biological Activity Index indicates compounds with tested or potential biological activities to easily identify compounds relevant to your research
  • Labeled Compounds Alerts lists all newly synthesized labeled compounds
  • Author Index lets you track the work of specific authors
  • Corporate Index, found only in the annual cumulative index, lists organizations whose works are reported so chemists can track research performed at specific institutions
• complete, English-language author abstracts
• profiles identifying tested or potential biological activities or applications
• labeled compound indicators
• highlighted compounds from new synthetic methods
• author names and addresses
• convenient access to the ISI document delivery service, ISI Document Solution^(SM)

An annual subscription includes:

• 52 weekly issues
• an annual cumulative index

Index Chemicus
CD-ROM Format

The CD-ROM edition provides timely, electronic access to new structures, bibliographic data, and concise summaries of articles from the world's leading organic chemistry journals. All structures and bibliographic data are fully searchable. Index Chemicus provides a full graphical summary of each article reporting a new compound, making it easy to evaluate each article with a simple glance at the summary.

Options:

• a full-size image from Index Chemicus

Features/Benefits:

• structure-searchable, including highlighting of substructure queries in results
• thousands of new compounds and synthetic intermediates not found in any other database -- over 200,000 added annually
• easy viewing of important reaction diagrams with a "zoom" option for enhanced clarity
• searchable stereochemistry
• complete, English-language author abstracts
• bioassays performed
• index terms to identify classes of compounds
• source information for newly isolated natural products
• author names and addresses
• convenient access to the ISI document delivery service, ISI Document Solution^(SM)

An annual subscription includes:

• 11 cumulative monthly updates
• an annual cumulation
• all necessary software for drawing and searching structures and text

Technical Specifications:

Index Chemicus
Magnetic Tape Format

Index Chemicus on magnetic tape provides the most powerful electronic access to new compounds, bibliographic data, and concise summaries of articles from the world's leading organic chemistry journals, with each structure and all bibliographic data fully searchable. Index Chemicus includes retrospective information on reported new compounds back to 1991, providing access to more than 1 million compounds.

Features:

• substructure-searchable
• thousands of new compounds and synthetic intermediates not found in any other database -- over 1 million structures accrued since 1991, with over 200,000 added annually
• complete, English-language author abstracts
• bioassays performed
• index terms to identify classes of compounds
• source information for newly isolated natural products
• author names and addresses
• convenient access to the ISI document delivery service, ISI Document Solution^(SM)

Updated:

• Monthly

Technical Specifications:

Chemical structures are available via ISIS; bibliographic data is stored in ORACLE relational database management system. ISIS is a trademark of MDL Informations Systems, Inc.