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ALERTS:

• The new interface, SciFinder-n, is at present available to UT Austin users.  The classic interface will probably be retired sometime in 2022.
• Due to the COVID pandemic, CAS has lifted IP address restrictions until April four, 2022, and logging in via UT's proxy server with your UT EID and countersign plus Duo is not required at nowadays.  If you don't programme to use links to full text manufactures, you can become directly to SciFinder without using the proxy.  You however need your personal SciFinder ID and password to log in.

• Register At present

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  If you don't have a personal SciFinder account at UT-Austin, click on the Register link to begin this procedure. If y'all already have a SciFinder account from another establishment, you however have to re-register here for a new account. A utexas.edu email accost is required. See below for details on who tin register and who can't.

• SciFinder Mobile

  CAS offers a smartphone-friendly version of SciFinder. (Note: You tin't exercise structure searches and at that place are no links to full text.) To connect, point your device'south browser to this URL:

  scifinder.cas.org/mobile

  and log in with your SciFinder ID and countersign. Y'all don't need to exist on the campus network.

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Access from Off Campus:  Proxy vs VPN

[Note:  CAS has temporarily lifted IP restrictions due to COVID, and a proxy connection is non required at present.]

To become to all our licensed resources while outside the campus network, yous must use our Proxy Server to establish a session that carries a recognized UT Austin IP accost.  Two methods:

• Follow a link from any Library web folio, itemize record or database directory, and enter your UT EID and countersign when prompted.  Multifactor authentication with Duo is so required.
• Bookmark this link in your browser: http://ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org

VPN volition not work for this purpose, and will interfere with a proxy connection.  Go out VPN and proceed through your local network to establish a proxied connection via links on the Libraries' pages.

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Coming from another institution?

If y'all're new to UT but used SciFinder at a previous institution, your one-time account won't piece of work hither.  Create a new i by registering higher up with your utexas.edu email address.  TIP:  If your web browser "remembers" and automatically enters your old SciFinder login ID and password, you'll have to articulate that out and update it with your new 1.

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Who tin utilise SciFinder?

Individuals affiliated with UT-Austin may register for a personal SciFinder account and utilize information technology from whatever estimator that is connected to or proxied through the campus network, including library workstations.  Authorized persons include:

• Currently enrolled students
• Currently appointed kinesthesia and staff
• Retired and emeritus faculty and staff (with official retiree status)
• Currently appointed postdocs
• Official visiting scholars (with valid faculty/staff UT EID and utexas.edu electronic mail address)

These types of individuals are not allowed to register for or use SciFinder:

• Alumni and erstwhile students (1 semester later on departure)
• Former faculty, staff; former postdocs
• Unofficial visitors (without faculty/staff UT EID or utexas electronic mail address)
• Library Courtesy Borrowers
• General Public

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Terms of Apply

Use of SciFinder must be for educational and academic research purposes only. Commercial utilize - including patentability searching - on behalf of whatsoever profit-making entity, regardless of one's personal status at UT, is non permitted. Users must hold to these terms when connecting to the resource. CAS actively monitors and reports suspect activity, and violation of the terms of use may result in loss of access.

Important Differences in SciFinderⁿ

The new interface is VERY different from the "classic" version, especially in how it searches for references using keyword terms, and how it sorts results by relevance.  Be certain to consult the Aid pages to improve your chances for a successful search.

• The main References Search box supports Boolean operators (AND, OR, Non), nesting with parentheses, and wildcards.  None of these were available in the former version.  Just:  Boolean operators are not functional in the Advanced search fields or the "Search within Results" filter.
• Multiple terms entered in the chief Search Box are connected with an implied OR operator.  This is not intuitive or helpful (almost other familiar databases and search engines use an implied AND).  If you want all the terms present in your results, apply the AND operator or enclose phrases within quotes.  Case:
  • ionic liquids -- (finds all records with either ionic or liquids)
  • ionic AND liquids -- (finds records with both words somewhere in the tape)
  • "ionic liquids" -- (finds the bound phrase as entered, including "liquid" in the singular)
• Relevance ranking of reference results is by black-box algorithm.  (The classic version sorted past reverse date, based on a proximity histogram the user could choose from.)  Re-sorting by reverse date may be advisable.
• Writer name searching is more than complex and less intuitive than earlier, especially when trying to include alternate forms of a name.
• Searching by publication information (journal, yr, book, etc.) is still possible only different.

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Sources of Assistance and Training

• SciFinder (Classic) FAQ and Guide

  Our legacy FAQ page has quick answers to many SciFinder questions on searching, using results, connecting to full text, and more.

• CASSI

  Await up publication title abbreviations.

What's in SciFinder?

SciFinder is the all-time place to start your search for inquiry-level chemical information. It provides integrated access to these Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases, plus Medline:

• CAPLUS

  Comprehensive bibliographic indexing of chemical literature, 1907-nowadays

• CAS Registry

  Chemical structures; names, synonyms; CAS Registry Numbers; calculated and experimental properties and spectra

• CASREACT

  Millions of single and multistep organic reactions, 1986-present (with some added data back to 1840)

• CHEMCATS

  Data on commercial availability of chemicals

• CHEMLIST

  Data on regulatory data on chemicals

• MARPAT

  Millions of generic Markush structures from patents, 1961-present

• MEDLINE

  Primary index to peer-reviewed biomedical literature, 1946-present

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SciFinder vs Reaxys

SciFinder and Reaxys (incorporating Beilstein and Gmelin) are complementary resource, and although there is some overlap the two are quite different in their respective literature coverage, and the ways they register compounds and index reactions. It's appropriate to consult both databases for the virtually complete coverage of compounds, reactions, and properties.

Off Campus access easier during COVID situation

CAS has temporarily lifted the IP address restrictions during the pandemic work-from-domicile menses, but plans to reinstate IP limits as of Apr iv, 2022.  This means that you don't need to log in via the Libraries proxy server, but you will still demand your SciFinder ID and password.  Nevertheless, links to total text licensed content from within SciFinder won't work unless you're in a proxied session.

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SciFinderⁿ at UT

SciFinder account holders at UT Austin take access to both the original and new versions of SciFinder.  CAS is currently rolling out a new interface called SciFinderⁿ (yes, that'due south a superscript "n").  The "classic" SciFinder Web interface is no longer being enhanced, although the bibliographic, substance and reaction information are fully upward to engagement.  There is no firm retirement date for the archetype version at this fourth dimension, only it will probably go abroad in 2022.

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Source: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/chemistry/scifinder

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