SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science. Users must create an account before accessing SciFinder Classic. Create account and CAS account help. Concerned about account privacy? View the CAS privacy policy. If if you are having issues connecting to the database try this link.

SciFinder-n is the next generation platform derived from SciFinder Classic. It has an advanced search algorithm and new interface. In addition to the chemical reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in SciFinder Classic, SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, and touch-screen enabled structure drawing. SciFinder-n uses indexed terms plus title, abstract, keywords and more providing results that might have been previously missed in SciFinder Classic. SciFinder Classic and SciFinder-n include the same core databases BUT embedded in SF-n are PatentPak, MethodsNow Synthesis, and Retrosynthesis planning. Users must create an account before accessing SciFinder-n or SciFinder Classic (same credentials will work on both versions but searches and saved records do not migrate between the two). Create account and CAS account help. Learn more about using SciFinder-n.

Reaxys is a chemistry database consisting of more than: 150M substances, 60M reactions, 70M documents, 40M bioactivities, 2M patents, and 500M substance properties. Users are able to simultaneously search for substances, reactions and documents in Reaxys, PubChem, SigmaAldrich, Commercial Substances, and more. Reaxys search tools are intuitive and easy to use, including chemical structure drawing, a query builder, and synthesis planner. Learn more.

PubMed comprises more than 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. The PubMed interface has changed and new PubMed trainings include: “PubMed Online Training” (quick online database tours, tutorials, handouts and more); “The PubMed Trainer's Toolkit” (instructional materials for teaching PubMed); and “Learn About Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)”.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Search results may be from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. There is currently no way to only search for peer-reviewed materials. Get more specific resource results by using the Google Scholar Advanced search feature. And always access Google Scholar through the library database URL to gain access to materials the library has subscribed to.