SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! You can explore one single source for scientific information in journals and patent literature from around the world.
With SciFinder, you can be more creative and productive in your research process. SciFinder is easy-to-use and offers you:
- Access to current, high-quality scientific information.
- Links to more relevant journal articles and patent documents than any other source.
- The ability to significantly improve your productivity.
- Capabilities for exploring substructures and reactions.
New Release
The upcoming release of SciFinder, planned for mid-September, will include performance and usability improvements and the following powerful new features:
Collaboration Tools: Improve your workflow efficiency by sharing project information with colleagues.
- Link to other SciFinder users within your organization.
- Tag references with helpful descriptive user-defined terms.
- Add comments to references for sharing.
Reaction Search Enhancements: Easily focus your reaction searches to save time.
- Refine reactions by solvent limiters.
- Get similar reactions.
- Sort reaction answer sets (e.g., by number of steps, percentage yield, publication year, or similarity).
Substance Property Enhancements: Increase your productivity by refining substance answer sets and customizing results.
- Refine substances by physical property values.
- Export physical properties to Microsoft(r) Excel(r).
- View 13C NMR Predicted Spectra for 25 million substances.
Key Links for SciFinder
One-Time Registration (Required)
Access Web version of SciFinder (on- and off-campus)
Training and Support Information (includes online tutorials and how-to guides)
