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Resource Type
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Online index with citations to journal articles, full-text patents, substance information |
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Subject Area
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Biomedical sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials science, Agricultural science |
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Availability
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Trent
- Access available to any valid Trent user, using their Novell Password
in the Library, or at home through the PROXY SERVER.
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How to Access
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First time users need to register.
To register go to http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=A3BCAAAC-86F3-5055-295F-06B6CB3533BE and follow these instructions (PDF). For security reasons, select a password different from your Novell Trent account. Please do not share your personal account with anyone.
Registered users click here to login to the web version.
Blocked Access
As our subscription allows for 2 shared seats between a number of universities, there may be times when you are blocked from accessing SciFinder. We are interested to know the frequency of blocks and would appreciate an e-mail from you should you get blocked.
Please
, Ellen Olsen-Lynch
In order to prevent users from being blocked there is a session timeout of 15 minutes (ie. if your session has been inactive for 15 minutes then it will be terminated automatically).
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Description
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The CAS databases provide access to:
- References from more than 10,000 currently published journals (core journals in CAplus)
- All patent records, meeting CAS selection criteria, from 9 of the major patent offices are available online within 2 days of the patents' issuance
- More than 16 million single- and multi-step reactions
- More than 1 billion predicted property values
- More than 2 million experimental properties
- The CAS REGISTRYSM database - the original source and final authority for CAS Registry Numbers
- Sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases, which are indexed and linked to scientific journal and patent literature
Support and Training
Training and support materials for the new version of SciFinder are available at http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/index.html
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Notes
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2 shared seat with other universities.
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Coverage
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CA Plus: 1907 - present
Medline: 1949 - present
Substance information: 1957 - present (complete); some content as far back as 1907
Chemical synthesis information: 1840-present; Journals covered for Chemical AbstractsTM since 1985; Patents covered for CA from 1991 to present
Regulated chemicals information: Originally from data in the 1985 TSCA inventory and supplements; U.S. Government Federal Register 1778-1987
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Update Frequency
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Daily or weekly depending on database |
