SciFinder Scholar

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The Florida State University Libraries provide access to the SciFinder Scholar system for on-campus FSU faculty, staff, and students.

Scifinder Scholar provides access to several Chemical Abstracts Service databases, including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCAT. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, and dissertations. Users may search by author name, research topic, molecular formula, chemical structure/substructure, or chemical reaction.

Please note that SciFinder Scholar is also available from workstations at the Dirac Science and Strozier Libraries. If you work or live on-campus, you may download and install this product on your own computer.

Step 1: Download the SciFinder Program

Scifinder(2007) for Microsoft® Windows® 98, Me, 2000, XP, or NT 4.0: SFS2007.exe

Scifinder(2007) for Mac® OS X 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5: sfs2007a.dmg

Step 2: Install SciFinder

It's recommended that you use the "Printer friendly version" link at the bottom of the page to print out the following instructions before proceeding.

Windows Users:

  1. Download SFS2007.exe and save it to a temporary folder. (~12.2 MB self-extracting executable.)
  2. Before running the installer, close all Windows applications.
  3. Run "SFS2007.exe" to install the SciFinder software. You can do this by:
    Double-clicking it in Windows Explorer (or My Computer)
    Choosing Run from your Start menu, typing in the full path to the file, and clicking OK.

  4. Follow the prompts to complete the installation.

Mac Users:

Follow these instructions.

Step 3: Download the FSU key files for SciFinder

You will need two important files in order to install and use SciFinder Scholar from your own on-campus computer.

Click the link below to access these files. If you are not already logged into the FSU proxy, you will be asked to enter your FSUID and password to continue. This zip file contains two files which must be placed within the appropriate SciFinder directory once it is installed: