About SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar (1879+) identifies articles from journals, patents, conferences, books and dissertations in chemistry, medicine and related subjects, with some links to full text.
- How To Access SciFinder Scholar
- SciFinder Scholar In Detail
- Tutorial Materials
- Return to the Chemistry Guide
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SciFinder (Web Version) Log In
First time users need to Register here for a SciFinder Web account (This link will prompt you to enter your ADS username and password before directing you through the registration process)
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Note: Only 8 people from all of the IUPUI & IU campuses, combined, may use the database at the same time.
Note: SciFinder is unavailable on Saturday evenings to Sunday mornings due to weekly maintenance. Check System Availability for details.
Searching is easy and may be done by substance name, structure, substructure, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula, organization, as well as the traditional research topic, and author searching. A specific citation and abstract can be found using "Explore References/Journal".
This database is especially useful for finding out if a substance exists (via a structure search), finding articles on preparation or biological activity of a substance, finding "review" articles or finding articles by an author on a particular subject. The database is known for its broad substance coverage, and its intuitive searching. For example, when searching author names, spelling alternatives are offered for last names. Hill Order is not required for molecular formula searching. Functional groups may be searched and stereochemistry may be specified in reaction searching. When substructure searching, a simililarity search may be performed to help identify most relevant results.
Additional advantages for this database are that patent family information is available to determine related and equivalent patents. Records may be exported to EndNote, RefWorks or another reference manager. Substance records often include calculated and sometimes experimental property data and spectra. Citation searching is available and may retrieve different results than Science Citation Index (SCI) searching. Chemical catalogs and related regulatory information is helpful and easy to access. Molecules can be viewed in 3D.
There are a few drawbacks, mainly that in this database you can't search for substance names using name fragments. Structure and substructure searches often produce large results sets that require "analyzing" for precision. Only "novel" reactions are indexed.
SciFinder Scholar searches several files:
- Content at a Glance
- CAPlus File (Chemical Abstracts)
- Registry File (substance information)
- Medline File
- CASREACT File (reaction database)
- CHEMCATS File (chemical catalogs)
- CHEMLIST Database (regulatory information)
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- SciFinder Scholar How To Guides (CAS)
- Overview of Web Version
- Information Retrieval: SciFinder, 2nd Edition (ebook)
Maintained by Eric Snajdr, Chemistry Subject Librarian.
