1. All users must register* with CAS to establish a unique username and password. Registration must be completed with an OSU email address (ending in osu.edu, ohio-state.edu, or osumc.edu). During the registration process, CAS will send you an email which is required for completion of the process. Occasionally, that email ends up in spam, so check your filtered mail if you do not receive CAS’s email.
You can only register once. If you are on campus when you register, use the on campus registration link below; if you are off campus when you register, use the off campus registration link below:
2. Once you establish your username and password with the registration process, if you want to use SciFinder on-campus, use the on-campus access URL and if you want to use SciFinderfrom off campus, use the off-campus access URL.
3. Pop-ups must be allowed from CAS (if your browser does not currently allow them, you should be prompted)
* Disclosure: CAS maintains a log of time of access and IP access address for each user. Although OSU Libraries would rarely, if ever, have any use for these logs, we do have access to them. The logs to which the OSU Libraries have access do not contain information about search parameters or downloads, however, CAS does maintain a log containing each of your search parameters and a record of which articles you chose to download. That information is held by CAS and not accessible by the OSU Libraries. A user can access his or her full search history data (including parameters and downloads) through the SciFinder interface.
ChemDraw Software download (PC and Mac)
