Access
- Current UT-Austin students, faculty and staff can search SciFinder from any computer that has a properly configured web browser and that is connected to or proxied through the campus network.
- You must first register and create your personal SciFinder Web account. Click on the Register button below to begin this process.
- If you already have your UT SciFinder account, click on the Sign-in button below to connect, log in and begin searching.
Registered users:
(UT EID required off campus)
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First time users:
(UT EID required*)
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* If your EID is refused permission to view the registration page, review Who can use SciFinder or contact the Chemistry Library.
What Is SciFinder?
SciFinder is the best place to start your search for research-level chemical information. It provides integrated, user-friendly web access to these Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases:
 Chemical Abstracts (CAPLUS) - comprehensive indexing of chemical literature, 1907-present
 Registry - chemical structures; names, synonyms; CAS Registry
Numbers; calculated and experimental properties and spectra
 CHEMCATS - commercial availability of chemicals
 CHEMLIST - regulatory information on chemicals
 CASREACT - single and multistep organic reactions, 1840-present
- MARPAT
- generic Markush structures from patents, 1961-present
 MEDLINE - biomedical literature, 1946-present
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SciFinder News
Latest Enhancements
The April 2012 release includes these enhancements:
- Property Value searching! You can now search for substances directly with specific property values or ranges. SciFinder substance records contain over 3.6 billion experimental and predicted properties. Previously you could only refine a search by property value.
 Enter a CAS Registry Number in the structure drawing applet to pull up the structure of a specific compound and then modify it. This saves you the time of drawing it from scratch. In the drawing menu bar, just click the icon.  Quick View feature: From multiple points within SciFinder, users can gain a quick view of details related to a select substance or reference. Quick View points the way to a potential search without first obligating the user to change their current search position. It also makes scanning large answer sets easier. Just click a small magnifying glass icon wherever you see it.
More information about updates...
From the February release:
- Additional experimental procedures from selected recent Japanese and German patents, and selected Taylor&Francis journals, e.g. Synthetic Communications
- Support for Firefox 9 and 10
- Additional pricing and availability data for commercial chemicals
SciFinder Mobile
CAS offers a mobile version of SciFinder optimized for use with your smartphone browser. (Note: You can't do structure searches and there are no links to full text.) For more information, visit CAS' mobile page. To connect, go to this URL: scifinder.cas.org/mobile or snap this quick response (QR) code with your smartphone's QR reader. Then log in with your existing SciFinder ID and password.
Help and Documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions and User Guide
- About SciFinder
- SciFinder Support and Training
- Browsers and Systems Supported
- Technical FAQ (browser issues, JRE, structure editor, etc.)
- Java Plug-in (required for structure searching)
- Java Tester
- SciFinder Mobile
- CASSI (Journal abbreviations database)
- Database Comparison Chart
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For more information about SciFinder at UT-Austin, including questions about access, contact the Chemistry Library by
email or phone 512-495-4600.
