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What is CrossFire Beilstein?
Designed for Organic Chemists, Beilstein is the specialized database
focused on the literature of organic chemistry. CrossFire Beilstein is
a computer-based gateway to the Beilstein database, which allows you
to search the most complete collection of structures, properties and
references devoted solely to organic chemistry. More than 6,000,000 substances
are covered. The database is updated monthly.
Use this database for full information on well-studied compounds as
well as any available information on esoteric substances.
Beilstein has excerpted the literature from 1779 to the present. Beilstein
critically reviews and evaluates the validity of each structure and fact
before it is entered into its knowledge base.
Top of Page  Who may use CrossFire Beilstein?
In accordance with the University of California's licensing agreement,
access to CrossFire Beilstein is available to University of California,
Irvine faculty, students and staff, and to patrons visiting the UCI Science
Library Reference Room. There are no limits to the number of people who
can access the CrossFire Beilstein database at one time.
How to get the software to access
CrossFire Beilstein?
CrossFire's Beilstein client software "Commander" must first
be installed on your computer in order to use the Beilstein database.
The client software has already been installed on the Science Library
computers in the Science Library Reference area and the Interactive Learning
Center (ILC). Do not attempt to download the software in the Science
Library.
To install Commander on a computer outside the library, follow the instructions
provided at the UCLA site: The Commander
software is updated regularly, and is available in both Windows and Macintosh
versions. (Note: CrossFire Commander is not yet available as a native
OS X application.)
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CrossFire Commander software?
Instructions for installing the CrossFire searching software for UCI
faculty, students and staff:
- Go to the UCLA
Welcome to CrossFire Beilstein/Gmelin site, click on the MDL® CrossFire
Commander Download for Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows NT 4.0
SP6, Windows 2000 and Windows XP and Apple MacOS 9.2,OS X link.
Then click on the Irvine link for customized information for this
campus.
- Be sure to read the installation notes as there are more instructions
on proper settings contained in the notes. In order to install the
program you need to know the following:
- Host IP Address: cfd-a.beilstein.com
- License Group Name: uci
- User ID: uci001
- Password: m2dyv3
- If you have CrossFire versions older than Version 6, you will need
to uninstall the Commander software and install the newer version of
the Commander software.
- If you have Version 6, you must change the settings in CrossFire:
Under Options, choose
- 1) Connections - edit the default.orf file and change the
host server to cfd-a.beilstein.com
- 2) Change the Group Name to uci. When you connect, change
the user id and password to those listed above and Save the user
id/password so you don't have to re-enter them with each new
session.
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Beilstein from within or outside of the UC Irvine Libraries?
Access within the UC Irvine Libraries
CrossFire Beilstein is available to University of California, Irvine
faculty,
students, staff and community users in the UC Irvine Science Library
at the following locations:
- The Reference Room on the 2nd Floor, public access computers (PCs
only). Click on the "Beilstein Command…" icon on
the computer desktop. When the CrossFire window opens, on the toolbar
at Database, click on the drop-down menu to "BSXXXX". You
will now be in CrossFire Beilstein.
- The Interactive Learning Center (ILC), 1st Floor (PCs and Macs
are available). UCI faculty, students and staff may use ILC computers
during all hours the Science Library is open. On the computer desktop,
go to the Start menu, scroll up to Programs and click Commander.
Access from outside the UC Irvine Libraries
CrossFire Beilstein is also available to UCI Faculty students and
staff outside the UC Irvine Libraries as listed below. You must install
the Commander client software on your computer first. Follow the instructions
provided by the UCLA
site. There is no off-campus access to non-UC Irvine community
users.
- from a computer connected to the campus network
- via the UCI Lifeline Modem Service
- via ZotNet Internet Service
- via VPN Client Software
- CrossFire Beilstein is not available through the UCI Proxy Server.
Top of Page Documentation
Are there any tips or training materials on how to use the CrossFire
databases? Yes, we recommend
Please note that chemical element searching in Gmelin is all lower-case-search,
for example to search silicon, search as "si," not Si.
Subject Librarian:
Mitchell C. Brown
Research Librarian for
Earth System Sciences & Chemistry
University of California
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA 92623-9557
(949) 824-9732
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