On May 25, 2021, in order to improve the quality of postgraduate education and enhance scientific research, the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences invited Mr. Kuang Jinhai, Customer Consultant of the Beijing Representative Office of Chemical Abstract Service, to explain how to use CAS SciFinder to obtain medical technology information. The lecture was broadcast live through Tencent Meeting. Teachers and postgraduates in 2019 and 2020 attended the lecture online and offline.

First, Mr. Kuang introduced the retrieval system of CAS and CAS SciFinder. He shared how to comprehensively use literature retrieval, material retrieval, and reaction retrieval to search literature in the CAS SciFinder, how to screen, scan, and save the results according to the need, and how to subscribe to the new literature in the field of interest. Mr. Kuang also presented different retrieval strategies for different disciplines and the CAS PatentPak tool for efficient reading of patent literature. In the end, he explained how to register a CAS SciFinder account and the notes while using it. Mr. Kuang also gave detailed answers to the questions encountered by students in the process of using CAS SciFinder, thus helping them to use CAS SciFinder efficiently.

The lecture enabled the students to understand the important role of CAS SciFinder literature retrieval in scientific research, improved the ability of the teachers and students to use literature retrieval tools. It will definitely help the School to improve the quality of postgraduate education, probe into the academic front, advance the progress of scientific research projects, and yield high-level papers.