UNAIR NEWS – Students cannot be separated from research that is developed from literature studies. Therefore, Universitas Airlangga also strives to support this by subscribing to credible data sources.

In this regard, Library Research and Development of Universitas Airlangga held an online workshop titled CAS SCIFINDERn on Monday, June 13, 2022. The workshop was led by Ahmadi Jaya Permana, S Si, M Si, lecturer of the Faculty of Science and Technology UNAIR.

According to Ahmadi, CAS SciFindern is an e-resource. A literature source that is considered expensive because of its credibility. “They process literature sources very selectively. It is costly because they are very detailed. Those sources from Google, with millions or thousands of results, are selected and then indexed. The document then is extracted and will be processed to enter the database,” he explained.

The Faculty of Science and Technology lecturer summarised the steps in accessing CAS SciFindern for new users. First, access the official website, click the register page, fill in personal data, and activate an account using e-mail. Furthermore, Ahmadi explained about CAS SciFindern. According to him, CAS SciFindern is directly supervised by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s most prestigious professional organization of chemistry, so its scope is in biochemistry.

“However, actually chemistry could enter all fields, so it’s not limited to chemists who could access this (CAS SciFindern, ed),” he said.

Ahmadi also explained that there are features in CAS SciFindern, that could be used to find references. “Similar to keywords in Google, you could just fill it in. Or, if you know the document number, enter, and search, it can be done using this. No need to go through Google,” he revealed.

In the end, he also added that in the keyword search, there is a technique called bulian, that is, adding the word ‘and’, ‘or’, and ‘not’ in the middle of a keyword. The purpose is to detail the keyword that was looked for.

“There is (feature, ed) called Advanced Search Field with three operating words, ‘and’, ‘or’, and ‘not’. So you could directly type (keywords, ed) in the search bar, or you could input them from here (Advanced Search Field, ed),” he concluded.

Author: Leivina Ariani Sugiharto Putri

Editor: Nuri Hermawan