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Chemistry: SciFinder

Setting up an Account

SciFinder® is a research discovery application that provides integrated access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences (from the publisher's website).

To sign up for an account, you must be a current student, faculty or staff member at the University of Tampa, and you must use your UT email address to register.

Terms of Use

Every user must agreet to the following terms every time they log in to SciFinder:

SciFinder® may be used for Academic Research ONLY. Use of SciFinder for Commercial Research is strictly prohibited.

As a SciFinder Named User, I acknowledge the following:

  • I am a current faculty, staff member, or officially registered student of the academic institution through which I am accessing SciFinder.
  • I will search only for myself and use SciFinder ONLY for my own Academic Research at my academic institution.
  • I will not use SciFinder for Commercial Research or for organizations other than my academic institution.
  • I have been assigned a unique username and password and will not share my username or password with any other person.
  • I will not use any automated program or script for extracting and downloading SciFinder data, or any other systematic retrieval of data from SciFinder.
  • I may retain a maximum of 5,000 Records at any given time for my own Academic Research use or to share within a Project team for the duration of the Project.
  • My academic institution’s SciFinder License, the CAS Information Use Policies, and additional terms and conditions located under the “Legal” link in SciFinder (collectively "Terms & Conditions") apply to my use of SciFinder.

Violations of the Terms & Conditions may result in termination of my SciFinder access.

I will contact my SciFinder Key Contact or the CAS Customer Center (help@cas.org) if I have any questions regarding my use of SciFinder (from the publisher's website).