The Research Medical Library provides free access to the Chemical Abstracts Service chemical databases through SciFinder Scholar. Chemical Abstracts is one of the world's largest and most up-to-date collections of chemical information, with nearly 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and more.

• More than 13 million single- and multi-step reactions
• More than 1 billion predicted and experimental properties
• The CAS REGISTRYSM database - the original source and final authority for CAS Registry Numbers - updated daily
• All patent records, meeting CAS selection criteria, from 9 of the major patent offices are available online within 2 days of the patents' issuance
• Sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases, which are indexed and linked to scientific journal and patent literature.
  

More information about the database:

for more information about SciFinder Scholar from the Chemical Abstracts Service web site.

How to get access:

• You must be an employee of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
• Your SciFinder Scholar database session must originate from a University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center IP address.
• The SciFinder Scholar client software must be installed on your computer. This is a graphical interface designed to link to the Chemical Abstracts Service. SciFinder Scholar runs on the PC (Microsoft Windows 98/2000/ME/NT/XP) and Macintosh OS X 10.2 or higher platforms.
• to go to the SciFinder Scholar Windows software installation page. (Note: The SciFinder Scholar client software can only be downloaded if your internet session is originating from an M. D. Anderson Cancer Center IP address).
  If you need the Macintosh client please contact Wes Browning, (contact information provided below).
• For questions, please contact Wes Browning in the Research Medical Library..
  Email: wbrownin@mdanderson.org
  Phone: (713) 745-1545