Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library

SciFinder Scholar provides online access to Chemical Abstracts (1907-present), Medline, the CA Registry File, CAS Reacts, and ChemCats. It includes indexing for over 21 million articles from over 8,000 journals, patents from 38 patent-granting agencies worldwide, information on over 50 million chemical substances, and over 6 million chemical reactions.

This is available for use by Penn State faculty, staff and students only.  To register go to the SciFinder Scholar registration page.  If you are not affiliated with Penn State, you can go to http://www.cas.org to get information on how to subscribe to SciFinder Scholar.

Once you have completed your registration you can access SciFinder Scholar @ https://scifinder.cas.org.

Beilstein (organic chemistry) and Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic chemistry) are two large handbook series that began publication in Germany in the late 1700s. The online versions are in English and provide a wealth of properties data. Beilstein also has reaction data as well.

These are client-based databases, and versions are available for Penn State Mac and PC users. In order to access them, you must install the client Commander software on your computer. To download Commander, please contact Nan Butkovich at njb2@psu.edu or by phone at 814-865-3716.

If you are not affiliated with Penn State, you can go to the publisher's website to obtain information about subscribing to these databases.

Nan Butkovich
Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library
201 Davey Lab
814-865-3716

or

John Meier
Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library
201 Davey Lab
814-867-1448