Online services listed below are available only to current UT students, faculty, and staff. Users can search more than 19 million citations to the literature by topic, author, CAS Registry Numbers, patent number, and CAS abstract number. More than 24 million chemical substances may be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Numbers, and formula.
Users can also execute substructure searches for substances and reactions.
SciFinder runs via a client software program that is available on library workstations and for downloading onto your own computer. Access is restricted to UT Austin students, faculty and staff with campus IP addresses. This Web database is a subset of the Chemical Abstracts database intended for use by undergraduate students and for quick look-ups. It contains over 2.7 million bibliographic records with abstracts, going back to 1967, from about 240 journals in the chemical and biomedical sciences. It's a good place to start a literature search, verify a citation, or get a few good journal citations that the library is very likely to own.