SciFinder Scholar Database Description

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Description:

SciFinder Scholar offers access to the CAS database Chemical Abstracts (1947-present), Registry (1957-present), and CASREACT (from journals, 1985-present; from patents, 1991-present). 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 27 million chemical substances may be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Number, and formula. Information for over 3.7 million organic, organometallic, natural product and biocatalyzed reactions from the CASREACT database is included in SciFinder Scholar.

Coverage: Indexing 1947-

Information Type:

Citations? Yes
Abstracts? Yes
Full-Text? Some Links to Full Text

Update Frequency: Monthly

Help & More Information:

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