Changes coming to SciFinder

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, will discontinue the client version of SciFinder (aka SciFinder Scholar) on June 30, 2011 for all U.S. and Canadian academic institutions. After June 30, 2011, all seats at Notre Dame will access SciFinder Web only.

To use SciFinder Web there is a one-time registration form that must be completed. Click on the SciFinder Web link on http://chemistry.library.nd.edu and then click the Create SciFinder Account button.

Once you have registered you can access SciFinder Web by clicking on the Continue to SciFinder button.

CAS has created a web page (http://www.cas.org/movetoweb/) to assist you in moving from the client to the web. For instance, CAS has created a conversion tool so you can migrate your client-saved .sfr files to .akx files.

For existing client users, SciFinder Scholar will continue to operate until June 30, 2011.

Any new user of SciFinder should start using the web version rather than the client version. In the coming weeks, the library will be removing the web pages for downloading the client, SciFinder Scholar.