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Welcome
to the first edition of the CrossFire newsletter. This bi-monthly letter keeps
you up-to-date with all the latest product developments:
discover our handy Tips and Tricks feature and learn more about
content and features.
This edition covers a wealth of information, ranging
from the practical - Tips and Tricks: helpful
insights into the navigation of the CrossFire databases,
the helpful - Did you know: features and
functions designed to make your life easier, conference
and event information, What's new: keeping you
informed about all the innovative additions to the
databases, Coming soon: product development and
much much more.
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What's New?
Multi-step Reactions in CrossFire Beilstein
Discover CrossFire Beilstein’s exciting new content addition – multi-step
reactions. The next update in June sees CrossFire Beilstein
incorporating a type of reaction that hasn’t been indexed
before.
Multi-step reactions enable you to go beyond fundamental
reactions: find and understand the individual steps within
the overall reaction and find suitable starting points for
their synthesis design.>>more |
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CrossFire Beilstein Advisory
Board Meeting takes place in New Orleans
The Beilstein Database Advisory Board’s second meeting
took place in New Orleans, during the ACS Spring
conference. The Board provides recommendations on the
scope, coverage, quality and continuing development of
the database, as well as overall strategy and direction.>>more |
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Scopus - CrossFire linking
Did you know that the link between CrossFire
Beilstein and Scopus now goes both ways, allowing
researchers to view the same publications from all the
relevant perspectives? Seamless linking,
effective decision-making. >>more |
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CrossFire Beilstein coverage
expands with Organic Letters
Did you notice
that
CrossFire Beilstein coverage has been expanded to
include the inaugural volume of the prestigious American
Chemical Society journal, Organic Letters (1999)?
Organic Letters
is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s
most important organic chemistry journals. >>more |
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Increased Patent Chemistry
Database Content
The addition of patent class A61K (medicinal, dental and
toilet preparations) widens the avenue of research
possibilities open to chemists within the Patent
Chemistry Database (PCD). PCD has also seen a
twenty percent growth
from November 2006 to summer 2007.>>more |
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Prestigious award granted to
Prof. Sandy Lawson - CrossFire Beilstein developer
Prof. Sandy Lawson, Director of Research and Development
for CrossFire received the prestigious Mike Lynch award
from the Chemical Structure Association (CSA) Trust. The
award was presented on June 1, 2008 during the
International Conference on Chemical Structures in the
Netherlands.>>more |
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Tips and Tricks
See for yourself how
easy it is to group and sort information through the
enhanced CrossFire Commander 7.1 grouping feature. Not
only can groups be sorted by group or a hitset, but also
unwanted hits can be excluded, or hitsets can be limited
to a certain value.
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Benefits of CrossFire Server 7.1
Find out about how customers benefit from the release of
CrossFire Server 7.1. This release follows the
successful December update to CrossFire Commander 7.1,
enabling customers to make the most of Corporate Wide
Access (CWA).
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Corporate Wide Access
What is CWA?
Exactly what the name implies - unlimited access
to the worlds most deeply-indexed collection of
searchable structure and reaction data. >>more |
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Panel discussion sheds light on
new light on the evolving use of chemistry information
At the ACS Spring Meeting in New Orleans this year,
Elsevier hosted a successful panel discussion looking at
the evolving use of chemical information. The panel
members represented a wide range of expertise, including
some highly respected scientists.>>more |
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Coming soon
More new developments coming soon –
Reaxys, a new tool for the
selection, design and optimization of synthetic
processes:
Find out more in the next edition of this newsletter. >>more |
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