A Beginner's Guide to SciFinder

An introduction into what content is available in SciFinder and how to go about finding the information you need.

Welcome!

Hi there, thanks for stopping by my SciFinder guide! After spending a few years working at CAS, I wanted to put this together to help both new and experienced users with navigating this product. Feedback is always appreciated, feel free to email me using my contact information to the right.

 

NOTE:

SciFinder recently enabled their AI search engine. This guide has not been completely updated to reflect this capability. It will in the coming months as I learn about it. For now, there is a setting you can turn on to go back to the "old way" if you are not a fan of the AI engine:

Settings screen is shown scrolled to the bottom with a Red box around a switch that says 'On' under Search Types setting.

 

Chemistry & Physical Sciences Librarian