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SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)

SciFinder Scholar (SFS; latest version is SFS 2007) includes:

  • Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry of more than 22 million chemical substances
  • CA databases with references to more than 15 million articles and patents(one of USC's best patent resources)
  • CHEMCATS database of nearly 400,000 commercially available chemicals from more than 300 suppliers
  • CHEMLIST, a database of key domestic and international regulatory information.

    SciFinder Scholar is available from Sunday 2:00 am until Saturday 6:00 pm (U.S. Eastern Time) and is limited to 7 simultaneous users.

    If you would like access to Scifinder, please contact Norah Xiao at nxiao@usc.edu

    Please include the following information:

  • Faculty and Staff: email address, building and room number, PC or Mac
  • Students: email address, building and room number, PC or Mac, name of advisor

    Scifinder is available on PCs in USC Public Computing Centers, newly at the Science and Engineering Library and at the Norris Medical Library. From Norris Library search stations, go to the Information Resources folder of the Novell-delivered Applications window.

    CAS provides a number of SciFinder "How To" guides, are here: http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/howto/index.html

    Please contact Norah Xiao at nxiao@usc.edu for access to the web-based version of Scifinder.

    Holdings: 1907 - current

    Note: SciFinder Scholar (SFS) includes: CAPlus - Chemical Abstracts Plus, MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine), REGISTRY - Structure database, CASREACT - Reaction information, CHEMCAT - Commercial sources database, and CHEMLIST - Regulatory database.

    For USC users only. Requires USC network connection. Allows limited number of simultaneous connections.

    Selector: rxsmithLast modified on 06/21/07
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