Chemical Information Sources/CIIM/Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry

Chemical Information Instructional Materials

CrossFire

• Beilstein and Gmelin Databases (Wixson, Rowe, Wisconsin)
• Beilstein and Gmelin Databases (Wixson, Stonemen, Wisconsin)
• CrossFire Beilstein Data Fields Reference Guide
• CrossFire Beilstein Data Structure Poster
• CrossFire Commander 7.0 User Guide
• Beilstein CrossFireplusReactions (Briggs, Schofield, Meehan PowerPoint, UMIST)
• Getting More from CrossFire (Schofield, Briggs, Meehan PowerPoint, UMIST) Presentation on using Crossfire with stereochemistry, reactions, Gmelin ligands, Autonom, and Microsoft Excel Client.
• Beilstein/Gmelin and CrossFire The John Crerar Library, University of Chicago) Includes links to a number of guides, among which are:
  • CrossFire Beilstein Fact Searching (Twiss-Brooks, Chicago)
  • Beilstein Structure Searching (Twiss-Brooks, Chicago)
  • Searching for Compound Preparations using Beilstein CrossFire Reaction Searching (Twiss-Brooks, Chicago)
  • Reaction Searching Tips (Twiss-Brooks, Chicago) Includes atom mapping, bond making/breaking, and combining a structural reaction search with a factual reagent search.
• CrossFire Abstracts - A Tutorial (Beilstein Information, 1998)

DiscoveryGate

• Interactive Videos(Elsevier MDL)
• How Do I Guides(Elsevier MDL)
• Beilstein Installation Instructions for PC (Cardinal, Rochester)
• Beilstein Installation Instructions for Mac (Cardinal, Rochester)

STN

• What's New in ReaxysFile? (FIZ Karlsruhe, 2013)

Dialog

• Beilstein (Dialog)

Lawson Numbers

• Beilstein Lawson Number Descriptions (Allison Tipton)
• Using the Lawson Number When Searching Beilstein (Allison Tipton)

Miscellaneous

• Beilstein Training Pages (Waugh and George, Indiana) An Excel spreadsheet summarizing useful Web sites for using Beilstein via Crossfire. Includes sites for beginning, intermediate, and advanced users.
• Comparison of Beilstein, SciFinder, and InfoChem's SPRESI Database (Lee, Catalytica Inc) Lists the coverage dates, the number of records, types of available searches strategies, strengths and weaknesses, and sources of supplemental information for each database.
• Beilstein Dictionary: German-English and English-German (Baysinger, Stanford) An online version of the Springer-Verlag Beilstein German-English Dictionary.
• German-English Terms for Physical Properties in Beilstein (Wiggins, Indiana)
• German-English Terms for Reaction Chemistry in Beilstein (Wiggins, Indiana)
• The Beilstein system: strategies for effective searching / editor, Stephen R. Heller. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1998.

Printed Beilstein

• The Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry for the Occasional User (Barnett, City College NY)Provides a history and overview of the printed Beilstein as well as instructions for computer searches on SANDRA that predate Crossfire.
• A Guide to the Printed Beilstein (Wiggins, Indiana University)