Chemical Structure Summaries
 Users told us that:
 When starting a literature search it is difficult to find factual
information on compounds/reactions
 When starting a structure search it is difficult to find a distinct set
of relevant articles
 Therefore we collaborated with sister company MDL
to bridge the gap
 We have built chemical structure summaries for
records common to both Scopus and Beilstein
 Just over 500,000 records are a match
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Finding Related Compounds
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Finding Related Reactions
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Finding Other Relevant Documents
Or a user can decide to go back to the literature (Scopus)
and view all documents in Scopus with this compound.
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Chemical Structure Summaries
 This feature is available if you have licensed Scopus
AND Beilstein from MDL on either:
 Crossfire Commander, or,
 DiscoveryGate
 No additional charge for the summaries that link the
systems
 Links are activated automatically with no action
required by you or the user
 Users move between the services without having to
enter a different password
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What Do Librarians Say?
 “It's important to have a product that does
one thing very well, not a product that does
everything a little bit. Let Scopus focus on
the citations, and let Crossfire do the
structure searching, and create handover
points. It is also important that the user
knows where s/he is at any time.”
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What Do Users Say?
 “Normally these are separate steps, supported
by separate systems”
 “Useful to see what a paper describes without
going through the text”
 “Excellent combination of reading a paper and
thinking about synthesis”
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