| Database Information |
SciFinder Scholar |
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This database is available only to current UD students, faculty, and staff via the UD campus network. Access via the Web proxy server is not available. Start-up costs for SciFinder Scholar were made available through the support of the late Judge Hugh M. Morris and the Judge Hugh M. Morris Family. |
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| Also known as: | Chemical Abstracts |
| Access: | There are two ways to connect:
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| Description: |
SciFinder Scholar provides access to a suite of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. These include: CAplus (Chemical Abstracts), REGISTRY, CASREACT (chemical reactions database), CHEMCATS (commercially available chemical information), CHEMLIST (regulated chemical information), and MEDLINE (biomedical literature worldwide). The CAplus (Chemical Abstracts) database includes a broad spectrum of technical and scientific information, including biochemistry; physical, inorganic, and analytical chemistry; applied chemistry and chemical engineering; macromolecular chemistry; and organic chemistry. It indexes literature written in 50 languages, but the abstracts in Chemical Abstracts are available in English. The material covered is from journals, patents, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and books. Patent information is an important aspect of the CAplus database. CAS REGISTRY is the world's largest substance database. It includes millions of organic and inorganic substance records and biosequences. CASREACT provides immediate access to information on synthetic organic research, including organometallics, natural products, and biocatalyzed reactions. CHEMLIST provides provides information on more than 200,000 inventoried or regulated chemicals. CHEMCATS contains information about commercially available chemicals and their worldwide suppliers. MARPAT (Markush Structures) is the structure-searchable database of generic, hypothetical substances founds in patent claims and disclosures. MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers all areas in the broad field of biomedicine. |
| Coverage: | CAplus: 1907 to date, plus over 44,000 records for journal articles dated before 1907 MEDLINE: 1950 to date REGISTRY: 1957 to date, plus many substances dating back to 1907 CASREACT: 1840 to date |
| Updated: | CAplus (Chemical Abstracts) is updated daily; the REGISTRY is updated daily; CASREACT is updated weekly. |
| Links: | Results for searches on “Research Topic,” “Author Name,” or “Company Name/Organization” are returned as a list of references accompanied by a microscope icon or a text icon. Clicking on the microscope icon brings up an abstract; clicking on the text icon links to ChemPort, CAS’s gateway to full-text documents on the Web. The University of Delaware has access to many full-text journals, but not all of them. The links to the full-text patents should work most of the time. |
| Notes: | Additional information is available from the SciFinder Scholar Web site at CAS. Past versions of SciFinder Scholar software (SciFinder Scholar 2004.2 for Mac OS 9 and Windows, SciFinder Scholar for Mac OS X 1.0) are no longer supported. CAS no longer supports Mac OS 9. |
| Permitted Uses: | Use of SciFinder Scholar is authorized only for current University of Delaware faculty, students and staff. Use is permitted only for academic research. A single authorized user may download and store no more than 5,000 records at any one time. |
| Hardware and System Requirements: | Hardware and software requirements are available from the SciFinder Scholar Web site. Please review this information before attempting to download and install the software. |
| Software: | Installing and Running SciFinder Scholar |
| Output Formats: | The SciFinder Scholar Web site from CAS provides additional information about SciFinder Scholar including SciFinder Scholar solutions, hardware and system requirements, hours of operation, and importing data to EndNote. |
| Help: | Context-sensitive help is available within the database.
Getting Started Guide - Windows: SciFinder Scholar 2007 is available as a PDF. A number of instructional tools and brief instructional sheets may be found in the Academic Support and SciFinder Scholar Support sections. For further assistance, contact a librarian. |
| Related Resources: | Databases for Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| Users: | 6 concurrent users |
| Producer: | Chemical Abstracts Service |
