Chemistry

The SciFinderⁿ information service from the American Chemical Society (ACS) is available for SJU users from any computer with internet access.

To use SciFinder, users must first set up individual accounts:

• Go to the SJU Library SciFinderⁿ Welcome screen and click on Create an Account
• Be sure to use your sju.edu email address in the registration process
• CAS will send an email to the user
• The user must respond to that email within 48 hours in order to use the account.
  
  Note: after confirming the registration, SciFinderⁿ will direct the user to https://scifinder-n.cas.org --- but this link will not work from off campus.

Accessing SciFinderⁿ after an account has been set up:

• Access is via the SciFinder site.
  • (http://ezproxy.sju.edu/login?url=https://scifinder-n.cas.org)
    • We have received a few reports of problems when using Chrome to access SciFinder.  If you encounter a problem, please try switching to Edge, Safari, or Firefox. Please report any access issues to dholden@sju.edu. 
• Once an account has been set up, the user can specify Preferences.

Note:

• Sessions are set to time out at 20 minutes.
• SJU has unlimited concurrent user access to SciFinderⁿ.

SciFinderⁿ®
Chemical Abstracts Service's SciFinderⁿ allows access to several major chemical databases including:

• CAS Data
• CAS Registry
• CAS References
• CAS Patents
• CAS Reactions
• CAS Commercial Sources
• CAS Formulations