SciFinder includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, and dissertations. Users may search for keywords in several fields (e.g., author name, research topic, molecular formula, chemical reaction) or use SciFinder’s drawing component to search for chemical structures/substructures.
SciFinder now offers the following enhancements:
- Sort reference answer sets by citation count to identify influential authors, research concepts, and potential collaborators
- Create “keep me posted” alerts
- Access to SciFinder via any UT Southwestern networked computer
- Explore research topics from “Index Term” links
SciFinder provides access to the following Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases:
- Chemical Abstracts: Provides a comprehensive indexing of chemical literature (1907-present).
- CAS Registry: Contains over 63.3 million organic and inorganic substances and over 63 million nucleotides and proteins. Also includes calculated, predicted, & experimental properties; chemical structures; names: and synonyms.
- CASREACT: Includes single and multistep organic reactions (1840-present).
- CHEMLIST: Provides regulatory information on chemicals.
- CHEMCAT: Includes commercial availability of chemicals from major suppliers.
- MEDLINE: Contains a comprehensive database of the biomedical literature (1951-present).