MDL Crossfire Beilstein

Beilstein Documentation

For additional general product information, or to download official documents relating to the Beilstein database, go to the Beilstein Home Page. Complete documentation for the latest version of Crossfire and Commander are available from the Beilstein website, or you may select the documents you need from the table below:

An Acrobat Reader can be obtained free from Adobe's website. Printed copies of these manuals are available in the Chemistry Library. Please inquire at the Circulation Desk in the Chemistry Library. .

Documentation and Tutorials from Other Sources

• MDL maintains a page of useful links
• The University of Chicago has several guides:
  • Guide to Beilstein CrossFire Fact Searching
  • Guide to Beilstein CrossFire Structure Searching
  • Compound Preparation Searching with Commander
  • Beilstein Structure Searching Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts
  • Tips for Reaction Searching
    
• University of California, San Diego:
  • Beilstein CrossFire Database Quick Reference Guide
    
• University of Wisconsin, Madison:
  • Beilstein and Gmelin Database Documentation
    
• Stanford University Libraries:
  • Standford maintains a BEILSTEIN Dictionary for users of the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry. (Should that fail, your faithful Physical Sciences Librarian is fluent in German.)

Please note that not all of the features discussed in the above guides are available in at NDSU. For example, NDSU does not subscribe to the Gmelin portion of the Crossfire database. Also, some of the files above are based on an earlier version of the Commander software.