Access to SciFinder Scholar from valid UC IP addresses is almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week--the system is unavailable from 3pm (PST) Saturday to 5am (PST) Sunday for maintenance activities. Users should logout upon completion of their searching, since UCLA shares a limited number of ports with other UC campuses. SciFinder Scholar's client software provides simple point and click access to the CAS databases including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, and CAS REACT. No special training or knowledge of search command languages are required. Users may search more than 19 million citations to the chemistry literature by topic, author, CAS Registry Number, patent number, and CAS abstract number. More than 22 million chemical substances may be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Number, and formula. Reaction information for organic and organometallic reactions from the CAS REACT database is included.
Additional details, including hardware and software requirements as well as search examples, are available from SciFinder Scholar at: http://scifinder.chem.ucla.edu/scifind
Questions regarding SciFinder Scholar can be directed to UCLA's Campus Contact: Marion Peters mpeters@library.ucla.edu (310)825-0190