SciFinder Scholar
The George A. Smathers Libraries provide access for UF faculty, staff, and students to SciFinder Scholar, a program that provides access to the following Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases:
- Chemical Abstracts: comprehensive indexing of chemical literature, 1907-present
- Registry: chemical structures, names, synonyms, some calculated and experimental properties
- CASREACT: single and multistep organic reactions, 1840-present
- CHEMLIST: regulatory information on chemicals
- CHEMCAT: commercial availability of chemicals from major suppliers
- MEDLINE: biomedical literature, 1951-present
It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, and dissertations. Users may search by author name, research topic, molecular formula, chemical structure/substructure, or chemical reaction.
Assistance with searching the SciFinder databases is on the SciFinder Scholar Resources page. See other helpful information at SciFinder Solutions and the SciFinder Scholar website, including hardware and system requirements and instructions for importing records into EndNote.
Accessing SciFinder Scholar
To use SciFinder Scholar, you must:
- Be current faculty, staff or registered student at the University of Florida.
- Use SFS for academic research only; no use for commercial purposes is allowed.
- Have no more than 5,000 records downloaded and stored electronically at any time.
- Delete stored records when no longer needed for the relevant research project or after the completion of your degree program, whichever occurs first.
Please read complete details. You will be asked to acknowledge these requirements each time you log on. Violation of the license by any user could result in a termination of the license for all users at the University of Florida.
SciFinder Scholar is a client-based product, not a Web product. You may use SciFinder Scholar several places:
- At the library
- In the Marston Science Library, at computers on floors 2 through 5.
- In the Health Science Center Library, at all public and lab workstations.
- At your lab, office, or home.
- If you are in the following departments or colleges, contact your technical support team to obtain the SciFinder software and installation instructions:
- Chemistry Department: The IT Shop
- Chemical Engineering Department: The CHE software web site
- Health Science Center departments: The HSC Libraries' Reserve Desk
- IFAS departments: IFAS ITNS
- Other on-campus departments:
- Ask your technical support team to contact Michael Howell (352-273-2860) or Laurie Brennan (352-273-2860) at the Marston Science Library.
- --OR-- Checkout the software and install yourself:
- The SciFinder Scholar installation CD-ROM (Windows and Mac OS X versions available) is located at the Circulation Desk in the Marston Science Library. The installation CD-ROMs may be checked out for 3 days. Follow the instructions in the "readme.txt" file on the CD-ROM to correctly install and activate the program.
- Off-campus departments:
- Contact Michael Howell (352-273-2860) or Laurie Brennan (352-273-2860) at the Marston Science Library. You must supply the 14-digit library number beneath the barcode on your Gator-1 card, and we will verify that you are currently affiliated with UF.
- If you are in the following departments or colleges, contact your technical support team to obtain the SciFinder software and installation instructions:
