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Chemical Abstracts Student Edition

Revised 1/31/2005

Database name: ChemAbsStudent
Short database name:  CASE
Available on: New FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

  • Chemical Abstracts Service Student Edition, designed for
    undergraduate students, indexes and abstracts over 200 of the
    most widely held chemistry journals as well as over 200,000
    dissertations.
  • A list of sources indexed in this database is available at this
    World Wide Web address: www.oclc.org/cgi-oclc/arm.cgi/http://www2.oclc.org/documentation/#fs

Coverage/update frequency

  • Includes records dating to 1967 for selected publications.
  • New records are added weekly.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for CA Student and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name MARC field
Publication Year 008/<date>
SICI Code 024/a
OCLC SICI 024/2,3
Accession Number 035/a
Author 100/a
Title 245/a
Abstract 520/a
Language 546/a
Keyword Identifier 653/a
General Subject 697/s,t
Chemical Substance 697/u-y
Author 700/a
Publisher 773/d
Citation 773/g
Source Name 773/t
ISSN 773/x
CODEN 773/y
Library Holdings 948
Detailed holdings information is available in FirstSearch Z39.50 Configuration Guide - Element Set Names.
Volume 949/a
Issue 949/b
Pagination 949/c
Publication Date 949/e
First Page Number 949/f
Marketing Defined Publication Date 949/g
Marketing Defined Julian Date 949/j
Document Type 949/l
SICI 949/m,n,s
OCLC Display Type 949/x
Accession Number 975/a,b
Corporate Source 975/c,d
CA Section 975/e,f,g
Correction 975/h
Publication Status 975/i
Availability 975/j
Chemical Substance Message 975/k
Online Availability Flag 993/a
Access Key 993/b
Journal ISSN Index 993/c
Fulltext per URL Flag 993/d
Online Availability 994/a
Fulltext 994/b,c,e
Search Rule 994/d
SICI 994/f,g

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

  1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed, all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
  2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
  3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Abstract (ab) Abstract 62 2 520/a
Address (ad) OCLC Defined 5100 2 975/c,d
Author (au, au=) Author-name 1003 1, 2 100/a
700/a
CA Accession Number (ca) OCLC Defined 5970 2 975/b,h
035/a
Chemical Indexing (ch) OCLC Defined 5976 2 697/w,x,y
Chemical Indexing (ch=) OCLC Defined 5976 1 697/w,x
Chemical Substance (cs) OCLC Defined 5658 2 697/u,v
Descriptor (de) OCLC Defined 5650 2 697/s,t
Descriptor (de=) OCLC Defined 5650 1 697/s
Document Type (dt=) Code-record-type 1001 1 949/L
Identifier (id) Subject-local 29 2 653/a
CA Index Name of Chemical Substance (in, in=) OCLC Defined 5974 1,2 697/u
Issue Number (is) OCLC Defined 5004 2 949/b
Keyword (kw) Any 1016 2 Contents of:

AB index
TI index
SO  index
NT index
SU index

Language (ln=) Code-language 54 1 546/a
Accession No. (no) Control number-local 12 2 035/a
Publisher (pb) Name-publisher 1018 2 773/d
Publication Date (pd) Date 30 2 949/e,g
Publication Status (ps) OCLC Defined 5973 2 975/i
CAS Substance Registry Number (rn) OCLC Defined 5975 2 697/v
CA Section Name or Number (sj) OCLC Defined 5971 2 975/e,f,g
CA Section Name (sj=) OCLC Defined 5971 1 975/f
Standard Number (sn) Identifier-standard 1007 2 773/x,y
Source (so, so=) Title-host-item 1033 1,2 773/t
Subject (su) Subject 21 2 697/s-y
Subject (su=) Subject 21 1 697/s,u
CA Section Cross-ref Number (sx) OCLC Defined 5972 2 975/g
Title (ti, ti=) Title 4 1, 2 245/a
Volume (vo) OCLC Defined 5013 2 949/a
Year (yr) Date-publication 31 5 008 <date>

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search.  They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results.

Restrictor Type Input Use Attribute Structure Attribue
Year* All years
Single year
Range of years		 --
19xx, 20xx
19xx - 20xx		 31 5
Language* All
English		 --
english		 54 1
Publication Status* Advance
Published		 advance
published		 5973 2

* Also an index.

Sorting

Search results in the CA Student database can be sorted by Title (4), Author (1003), Publication Date (30), and Source (1033).

General punctuation rules

(exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):

Punctuation Rule Punctuation Rule
" Delete and collapse $ Delete and collapse
' (apostrophe) Delete and collapse % Delete and collapse
. Delete and collapse * Delete and collapse
, (comma) Delete and collapse + Delete and collapse
; Delete and collapse > Delete and collapse
: Delete and collapse < Delete and collapse
() Delete and collapse @ Delete and collapse
<> Delete and collapse ? Delete and collapse
{} Delete and collapse -- Delete and collapse
[] Delete and collapse / Substitute a space
= Delete and collapse - Retain and index
! Delete and collapse & Retain and index
# Delete and collapse

Searching tips

Keyword Search (1016): The Keyword search includes elements from the Abstract (520/a), Title (245/a), Subject (697/s-y), and Source (773/t) indexes.

Using limiters:  Use the following indexes as limiters to an index search in order to narrow the focus of your search:  Year (31), Language (54), Publication Status (5973), and Document Type (1001, using the values "journal" and "dissertation").  OCLC uses these indexes as limiters on the web.

Copyright

Copyright © 2008 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.

CA Student Edition users are required to read additional terms contained under the General Help Topics. Click on the Terms of Use and scroll down to click on the CA Student Edition Terms. Designed for undergraduate students, indexes and abstracts widely held chemistry journals, as well as over 200,000 dissertations.