SciFinder Web and SciFinder Scholar
We are currently migrating from the Client version to the Web version. You may be “turned away” more frequently during the transition. If this happens, please try again later or switch to the other option.
Register for SciFinder Web
(first-time use only)
IMPORTANT: You must use your Gatorlink [@ufl.edu] email address
Connect to SciFinder Web: (if registered)
https://scifinder.cas.org/
Download the SciFinder Scholar 2007
Client for Windows/OS X
About SciFinder Scholar
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 Scholar website, including How-To Guides, tutorials, and CAS e-Seminars. View the SciFinder Scholar Tutorial for instruction on searching with the Client version.
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.
UF currently offers 2 ways to get to SciFinder, and we encourage you to set up both.
- SciFinder Web (introduced in 2009). Complete the one-time registration using your ufl.edu email address; then within 48 hours accept the confirmation from CAS (which may go to your spam folder). Then go to https://scifinder.cas org/ and login with the username and password you set up. You must login each time you use SciFinder Web.
- SciFinder Scholar 2007 "Client." Download the client software and install it on your computer. Then launch SciFinder Scholar from your computer; there is no login requirement for the client.
Differences between SciFinder Web and SciFinder Scholar
| SciFinder Web | SciFinder Scholar 2007 (client) | |
|---|---|---|
| Accessing SciFinder Off-Campus | You can use VPN or proxy. | You must use VPN |
| Using SciFinder On-Campus | You can use the campus wireless network once you have registered your laptop, or any campus computer. | You can use the campus wireless network once you have registered your laptop. It is also installed on selected computers in the Marston Science Library, Health Science Center Library, and computer labs in some sci-tech departments. |
| Current Awareness Features | You can create up to 20 search alerts for new references or substances, and receive weekly emails of those updates. | None |
| Performance Issues | Still new, so some of the structure analysis features are still missing. There may also be some speed issues, particularly off-campus and/or involving complex structure/substructure searches. | Excellent |
| Seats (# concurrent users across 8 Florida university campuses) | 5 seats (will increase) | 16 seats (will decrease) |
| Exporting references | Select the references and click Export. For file type, select Tagged Format (*.txt). | Select the references and click Save As. For file type, select Tagged Format (*.txt). |
Downloading the SciFinder Scholar Client onto your Computer
- 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 or off-campus departments:
- Ask your technical support team to contact Michael Howell (352-273-2860) at the Marston Science Library. Off-campus: 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.
-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.
- Ask your technical support team to contact Michael Howell (352-273-2860) at the Marston Science Library. Off-campus: 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.
- Getting Started with SciFinder Scholar 2007 (Client)
