SciFinder tutorials & demonstrations

• Build up your skills with a tutorial or demonstration
  
  • SciFinder Web version
  • SciFinder client version
• What does SciFinder cover?
• How do I access SciFinder?

SciFinder Web

Watch an interactive demo (requires flash).

Take a look at the HowTo guides (PDF): quick and easy-to-read overviews of key SciFinder functions and options. HowTo guides are available for:

• Searching for information in SciFinder
  ...by research topic, reactions, substructure, molecular formula etc
• Working with your search results
  What to do once you've found some useful references, or a substance or reaction that you'd like to explore further.

Taking it further...
Choose from a variety of recorded sessions (uses WebEx) and discover new ways of making the most of SciFinder's tools and search capabilities. Find out more on exploring research topics, as well as structure and reaction searching.

Beyond the basics: strategies
Take a look through SciFinder's suggested pathways for exploring:

• Small molecule searching
• Synthetic chemistry
• Polymer chemistry

SciFinder Client

Take a look through the Library's own web-based guide to SciFinder, covering structure, reaction, molecular formula and topic searching (among other things...).

What does SciFinder cover?

SciFinder Scholar, the Chemical abstracts database, indexes journals, patents, books, review articles, conferences, dissertations and reports in chemistry, chemical engineering and biochemistry from 1907 onwards. SciFinder Scholar allows searching of substances by structure, substructure, reaction, formula, name and searching of topics and authors. SciFinder also searches the medical database, Medline.

How do I access SciFinder?

University of Adelaide staff and students have two options for accessing SciFinder: the traditional SciFinder client which requires you to install software on your PC, or SciFinder Web, the brower based version. While the SciFinder client is still available for download, we recommend using SciFinder Web, which has several benefits over the client version, including that it is available for use off campus.

SciFinder Web

• Before accessing SciFinder Web for the first time you will need to create your own SciFinder Web account.
  • The registration takes around 2 minutes;
  • You MUST use your University of Adelaide email address or your registration will not work.
• Got an account? Login to SciFinder Web

SciFinder Client

The client version is currently available on all Library PCs. You can also download the software onto a PC in your department or work area, however the client can not be used from off campus. To download the client software, head to the Library catalogue record for SciFinder and follow the prompts.

To obtain a copy of the site.prf file, please contact Ursula Henderson, the Research Librarian for Chemistry.