SciFinder 

NOTES:

• Only MIT faculty, students, post-docs & other researchers, and staff are entitled to use SciFinder. Most Affiliates and Other categories are not
• Use of SciFinder requires going through the MIT Touchstone authentication system

Search - http://libraries.mit.edu/get/scifinder 

Register before using the first time: http://libraries.mit.edu/cas-reg

• Registration also requires the use of MIT Touchstone authentication system
• Registration instructions

Learn to use SciFinder

• Introductory demo (Flash File)
• Video tutorials (WebEx)
• How to Guides (pdf)
• Substance and Reaction Searching
• Searching Polymers

Off-campus access

• Chemistry Research Guide
• Chemical Engineering Research Guide
  
• Properties of Materials and Chemicals
• Spectra Resources

SciFinder is the most comprehensive chemical information discovery tool  of chemical information. It allows you to explore the CAS databases which contain literature from many scientific disciplines including:

• chemistry
• chemical engineering
• biomedical sciences
• energy
• enviromental sciences
• materials science
• agricultural science

Check SciFinder content at glance for more details.

The MIT community can use SciFinder:

• for research purposes only.
• Any kind of commercial use is forbidden.
• Please read the use restrictions before accessing SciFinder. There is a limit to how many records you can download.

MIT Libraries subscription allows:

• eleven (11) simultaneous users
• structure and substructure searching

Before using SciFinder for the first time, you MUST register!