Chemical Abstracts—SciFinder

If you have a PC Windows or Macintosh machine with a Harvard University campus network connection, and you are a current Harvard ID holder, you can load the Chemical Abstracts/SciFinder Scholar client onto your machine. If you experience problems running the software after installation, please read the Troubleshooting notes first.

Chemical Abstracts searching is available to you 24 hours a day using SciFinder Scholar for both regular and substructure searches.

Chemical Abstracts via Scifinder covers 1907-present, updated daily. Find out more about Chemical Abstracts.

BeilStein Crossfire

If you have a PC Windows or Macintosh machine with a Harvard University campus network connection, you should be able to load the CrossFire client directly onto your machine. Please see Librarian for Beilstein Crossfire Commander software and passwords.

DISCOVERYGATE

DiscoveryGate information platform is available to download to computers with a Harvard I.P. address. This software is available for Windows and MAC OSX. Available databases includes:

• Available Chemicals Directory
• Drug Data Report
• Reaction Browser Databases including ChemInform, Organic Syntheses, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry and Solid-Phase Organic Reactions.
• Metabolite Database
• NCI Database, MDL Toxicity Database, OHS MSDS data,
• Beilstein and Gmelin and more...

Please connect to https://discoverygate.com to downoad the current software.

Endnote, ProCite, and Reference Manager Filters

For importing SciFinder data into the appropriate third party applications see: CAS Support - Filter Downloads

Troubleshooting Notes

Most errors accessing Scifinder Scholar (Chem Abstracts) stem from the following:

• Make sure the installer has unzipped and loaded into the Scifinder folder the file named site.prf. If this file is not present in the folder after installation, please contact the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library to obtain a copy.
• You are not using a Harvard IP address to access the server. You must be a Harvard University person,using a Harvard IP address to access this database.

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