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SciFinder by CAS (A Division of the American Chemical Society)

The client version has been discontinued by CAS as of June 30th, 2011.

How to begin using SciFinder:

Register for SciFinder Web
IMPORTANT: You must user your Gatorlink [@ufl.edu] email address

Connect to SciFinder Web: (if registered)
https://scifinder.cas.org/

About SciFinder

The George A. Smathers Libraries provide access for UF faculty, staff, and students to SciFinder, 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

SciFinder 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.

See instructions for using the new Web version at the SciFinder website, including How-To Guides, tutorials, and CAS e-Seminars.

Accessing SciFinder

To use SciFinder, 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.

For further Information or Problems Registering:

If you would like more information on using this version of SciFinder, please contact Donna Wrublewski, Chemical Sciences Librarian (dtwrublewski@ufl.edu)

If you have trouble registering, please contact Michael Howell, Engineering Librarian/CAS Liaison (mhowell@uflib.ufl.edu), or Donna Wrublewski, Chemical Sciences Librarian (dtwrublewski@ufl.edu)