Accessing SciFinder
- 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 account. Click on the Register button below to begin this process.
- If you already have your 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.
- Existing installations of UT's SciFinder Scholar client software can still be used for the time being. However we encourage everyone to register and begin using the web version as soon as possible. During the transition phase when we are using both the client and web versions, our pool of available seats must be divided between the two. As a result, you may see more busy signals than you're accustomed to. Going forward, more seats will be allotted to the web version and fewer to the client.
What Is SciFinder?
SciFinder provides integrated, user-friendly web access to 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
 MEDLINE
- biomedical literature, 1949-present
Help and Documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions about SciFinder
- About SciFinder Web
- SciFinder Web Support and Training
- Technical FAQ for Web Version (browser issues, JRE, structure editor, etc.)
- Java Plug-in for SciFinder Web (required for structure searching)
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SciFinder News
SciFinder Web Upgrade
CAS released an upgrade to the Web interface of SciFinder in September. In addition to several performance and usability improvements, improvements include new search, analytical, and collaboration tools to help synthetic chemists and other scientists. Some of the new features include:
- Get similar reactions
- Limit reaction searches by select solvents
- Sort reaction answer sets (e.g., by number of steps, percentage yield, publication year, or similarity)
- Export physical property data to Excel
- Variable number of answers per page
- Variable number of columns per page (structures)
- Customizable abstract length display
- Combine Keep Me Posted results
- Next/Previous detail
- Tag references with helpful descriptive user-defined terms
- Add comments to references for sharing information and insights with colleagues
- Link to other UT SciFinder users to share both research comments and tagged references
CAS adds more NMR spectra
CAS has added predicted 13C NMR spectra for over 25 million substances in the Registry file. Earlier in 2009 over 23 million predicted proton NMR spectra were added. These spectra are from ACD Labs.
CAS adds more reaction data
SciFinder's CASREACT file has been enhanced with reactions from three Wiley
reaction collections: Organic Syntheses, Organic Reactions, and the Encyclopedia of
Reagents for Organic Synthesis (EROS), dating back to 1921. (Full text from these titles is not included.)
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at UT-Austin 
For more information about SciFinder at UT-Austin, including questions about access, contact the Chemistry Library by email or phone 512-495-4600.
