CAS has made CASSI, the CAS Source Index tool, freely available online.
Formerly only available by subscription on CD, this is a great little tool for expanding equivocal journal title abbreviations before searching and is essential for confirming an abbreviation for an ACS citation. Searches are available by title, coden, and ISSN, as well, for tracing lost citations.
Bookmark the site yourself, or find it out when you need it on the Chemistry Research Gateway page.
Posted in Chemistry, Databases, Uncategorized by Rebecca : January 4, 2010 - 2:16pm
Would you like to be able to write chemical papers in a word processor with a dictionary that can tell the difference between a correctly spelled technical term and an actual misspelling? Tired of trying to convince your computer that ‘dimer’ is, in fact, correct and should not automatically become ‘dimmer’?
If so, you might like to download and install the Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors (version 2.0).
Developed by Adam Azman, a PhD candidate in synthetic organic chemistry, this dictionary contains over 104,000 chemical terms, and is compatible with Microsoft Office (Windows or Mac) or OpenOffice (Windows or Linux). The dictionary is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, and was built using a previous draft and resources from ChemSpider.
Download, correct, or request additions to the Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors at the Chemistry Blog, or find out more about how it was built.
Posted in Chemistry, Tools, Uncategorized by Rebecca : February 23, 2009 - 3:17pm
