SciFinder Scholar is a database that provides access to scientific literature and patents. It contains over 30 million abstracts from Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE, as well as substance, reaction, and commercial availability information. SciFinder covers chemistry as well as other fields like biology, engineering, and materials science. Users can search by keyword, substance, reaction, or author to find relevant journal articles, patents, and other information. SciFinder updates daily with new references and allows exploration of concepts and synthesis routes. It is a valuable tool for research in academia and industry.

1. Presented by
Surendra Kumar Pal
Library Information Assistant trainee
Indian Institute of Science Education & Research-Trivandrum, Kerala

2. Contents
 Definition
 Overview
 Scifinder Content
 Coverage
 Feature and Benefits
 How to Search?
 Conclusion

3. Definition
 SciFinder Scholar is a Z39.50 Windows-based interface that provides easy
access to the rich and diverse scientific information contained in the CAS
databases including Chemical Abstracts from 1907 onwards.
 The SciFinder Scholar offers a variety of pathways to explore CAS databases as
well as MEDLINE.
 SciFinder Scholar interface provides the most accurate and comprehensive
chemical and related scientific information including: journal articles and
patents together in one source, substance data, chemical reactions, chemical
regulatory data, chemical suppliers and biomedical literature.
 SciFinder Scholar covers not only chemistry but also Agriculture, Biology and
Life Sciences, Engineering, Food, Geology, Medical, Physics, Polymer and
Material Sciences.

4. Overview
 References from more than 10, 000 currently published
journals and patents from more than 63 patent authorities.
 Important scientific discoveries from the present to the
mid – 1800s.
 The worlds largest collection of organic and inorganic
substance information.
 The latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they
are published with references added daily and some patent
information as recent as 2 days ago.

5. Scifinder content
SciFinder Scholar gives you access to:
 30 million abstracts in CA plus
 17 million abstracts in medline
 103 million organic/inorganic substances
 16 million single/multi step reactions
 29 million substances with commercial availability
 1.1 Billion Predicted and experimental properties
 IR and NMR and 23 million predicted spectra.
 246,000 regulated chemical inventories

6. Scifinder Scholar Coverage
 > 10,500 Journals
 51 Patent Issuing Authorities
 Conference Proceedings
 Technical Reports
 Book Reviews
 Dissertations

7. Features and Benefits
 Access to current, high quality scientific information.
 Links to more relevant journal articles and patent
documents than any other source.
 Content indexed by scientists
 Time savings, with speedy access to more than a
century of scientific information.
 A novel approach to problem solving by linking related
concepts.

8. When you open SciFinder Scholar, the first thing you see is the “Explore” menu. You
have 6 different choices of how to search for articles.

9. SciFinder:
Uses ‘natural’ language searching
I am looking for the effect of aspirin on blood clotting
 separate key concepts with prepositions
 prepositions are translated into the Boolean
aspirin on blood clotting is better than
aspirin blood clotting
 if only a space separates words, the system will consider the words to be
part of a phrase

10. searching authors in scifinder:
type a surname and initial, select all possible forms of a name.

18. Conclusions
 SciFinder makes it easy to locate chemical synthesis
information in a variety of ways, depending on your needs.
It then lets you explore synthetic pathways as well as
quickly and easily navigate among
reference, substance, reaction, and commercial source
information.
 SciFinder can help to increase the overall effectiveness of
your searching, as well as your accuracy, efficiency, and
productivity and it is an effective tool for accessing
important information for teaching and academic research.
 SciFinder is an essential part of the chemical synthesis
research process.

19. Reference
 Rosenstein, I. J. (2005). A Literature exercise using Scifinder
Scholar for the Sophmore Level Organic Chemistry. Journal of
Chemical Education, 652.
 Wagner, A. B. (2006). Scifinder Scholar 2006 : An Empirical
Analysis of research Topic Query and Processing. Journal od
Chemical Information Model, 767-774.
 Wilson, Anne M.s (2002). Utilization of Scifinder Scholar at an
Undergraduate Institution. Journal of Chemical Education, 524.
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 http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/index.html
 http://www.cas.org/etrain/scifinder/introref.html