CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform

Workshops

Online or in-person training can be arranged for your specific research needs.

Resources from CAS

Where to begin:

• The quick start guide for performing a search (PDF) covers the basics of looking for substances, reactions, and references.
• For a review of the interface, see this quick reference guide (PDF).
• Once you get the hang of it, you can set up alerts (PDF) to get notified when there are new matches to your searches.

Specialized training from CAS: 

• Search the CAS Lexicon to find CA indexing terms for concepts, chemical classes, and taxonomic vocabulary.
• CAS SciFinder-n training
• CAS Analytical Methods training
• CAS Formulus training

Videos from CAS

How to navigate CAS SciFinder-n

Reference searching

• How to Perform a Reference Search
• Overview of Advanced Reference Searching
• How to Filter Reference Search Results
• How To Perform an Author Search
• How To Do an Organization Search

Reaction searching

• How to Perform a Reaction Search With Known Substances
• How to Perform a Reaction Search With Drawn Structures
• How to Perform a Retrosynthetic Analysis

Substance searching

• How to Search for Substance Details
• How to Identify References to Substances
• How to Filter Substance and Structure Search Results
• How To Search for Metal-containing Substances

Structure searching

• How to Draw Structures
• How to Perform Structure Searches
• Overview of Advanced Structure Searching
• How to Filter Substance and Structure Search Results
• How to Combine Structures With Reference Search Results