Library Guides: Chemistry:

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My office is on the first floor of the Harold Cohen Library. You can contact me by email or book an appointment.

Subjects: Chemistry, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geography, Planning

This month’s CAS SciFinder® release is focused on enhancements to the recently launched SearchSense and IP Connections capabilities.

SearchSense

Publication Year relevance boost – Reference relevance will now prioritize those with more recent publication years, making it easier for you to find and stay up to date in a research area.
Improved hyphen handling – Hyphenated items are now being handled as intended, reducing noisy partial matches to ensure higher quality results.

IP Connections

Classification Code enhancements – When filtering reference sets or using advanced search to find patents by classification, the filter and search field have been expanded to enable comprehensive searches across IPC and CPC data. This makes it easier for you to organize and search for inventions in a research space.
Prior Art completion messages – After you have initiated a Prior Art Discovery search, you can now continue working anywhere in CAS SciFinder and receive a notification when your results are ready.
Enhanced download options – Claim 1 and Patent Status information can now be added to PDF and RTF format downloads, providing you with a richer reference context in exported files.

For a full overview, visit the “What’s New?” section in CAS SciFinder.