About SFS

SciFinder Scholar is a powerful tool for searching Chemical Abstracts (CAPlus) and Medline and other databases. It contains over 25,000,000 references to the chemical and medical literature; identification, preparation and purchase information for millions of substances (almost 4,000 are added every day); and information on over 9 million reactions.

SciFinder Scholar is a client-server application. You must acknowledge the user agreement below before you can download the client software to your computer.

After you have installed the software, you will access the database by opening the SciFinder Scholar application on your computer. While you will not use a web browser to access this data, you will still need an active internet connection. You may contact shuylerk@seattleu.edu with questions.

PLEASE NOTE: Remote access through the library's normal secure proxy server is not available. Instead, remote access is available through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) . Please contact Seattle University OIT (helpdesk@seattleu.edu) for assistance in setting up a VPN.

System Requirements -- SciFinder Scholar 2006

Before using SciFinder Scholar your computer needs to meets specific system requirements and configurations.

If you have questions about these requirements please contact Seattle University OIT (helpdesk@seattleu.edu).

SciFinder Scholar User Agreement

You must certify to the following before you use SciFinder Scholar:

1. I am a current or visiting faculty member, staff member, or officially registered student of Seattle University.
2. I will use SciFinder Scholar only for my own academic research done in the course of pursuing my degree, or in instructing my students, or, in the course of my own research funded by the government or a non-profit foundation and intended for publication in the publicly available literature.
3. I will NOT use SciFinder Scholar for commercial research; for example, research that is done under a funding or consultant contract where the results are delivered to a for-profit organization, or for research that involves patentablity searching. If I require SciFinder for commercial purposes, I will have the search done using a commercial account by contacting the librarian responsible for chemistry searches on campus, by contacting CAS and having them perform a search for me, or by acquiring and using the commercial SciFinder product.
4. I will use my search results in the ordinary course of academic research and acknowledge that I may store search results in electronic form, provided that at any one time, I store no more than 5,000 records. I may share search results in a limited, reasonable way with other University students or faculty working on the same project, but I will not aggregate my electronic search results with those of anyone else. I will delete stored records when I no longer need them for the relevant research project, or after the completion of my degree program, whichever occurs first. If I need to use search results beyond what is described here, I will contact my University Key Contact (see below) to discuss and to obtain CAS permission. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM NOT PERMITTED TO DISTRIBUTE ANY CAS DATA OR SCIFINDER SCHOLAR, FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN OR OTHERWISE, OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY OR TO THIRD PARTIES.
5. I acknowledge that Seattle University has entered into a license agreement with CAS to provide me with access to SciFinder Scholar, and that violation of the license by any user could result in a termination of the license for all users.
6. I will contact the University's Key Contact with any questions related to the use of SciFinder Scholar.

By clicking the link below, you signify that you have read, understood, and will abide by the terms of Seattle University's SciFinder Scholar User Agreement.

I AGREE TO THESE TERMS