RSC Databases

Our license agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) includes access to the RSC databases.

The following databases are available:

Find more RSC publications at http://pubs.rsc.org/.

SciFinder Training Materials

CAS offers several training materials at their website to help you improve your search skills for SciFinder.

There are substance, reaction and reference searching materials at an introductory level available. To get access to additional and advanced tutorials you may register for the Learning Solutions.

Learn more about the new design to SciFinder that was launched in June with this Overview Presentation (pdf).

Share Groups & References with EndNote

Thomson Reuters offers EndNote Web for free now under the new name EndNote Basic.

Now it is easier to share references and groups with colleagues who do not have a EndNote license. You may share references (without attachements) in groups, give others read or write access, add references to the groups you share and import the references from someone else’s shared group into your library.

See the YouTube video on Sharing References with EndNote Web.

Video Podcasts on Patenting und Marketing of Inventions

Max Planck Innovation supports Max Planck scientists in evaluating inventions and filing patent applications. The Max Planck Innovation team present their fields of activity in an video podcast series that is available on maxNet.tv.

1/4 Connecting science & business. Technology transfer for the Max Planck Society
http://maxload.rzg.mpg.de/wp/?p=1025 [MPG internal access]

2/4 Patenting of information
http://maxload.rzg.mpg.de/wp/?p=1043 [MPG internal access]

3/4 Marketing of inventions
http://maxload.rzg.mpg.de/wp/?p=1086 [MPG internal access]

4/4 Founding a company
http://maxload.rzg.mpg.de/wp/?p=1089 [MPG internal access]

Which Online Dictionaries and Encyclopedias are Available?

The following dictionaries are included in our license for Langenscheidt:

  • a set of bilingual concise dictionaries
  • a set of technical dictionaries including physics and chemistry
  • some titles of the Duden series
  • pocket dictionary English – Chinese
  • dictionary ‘Deutsch als Fremdsprache’

Some more licensed dictionaries and encyclopedias:

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