Developed by the American Chemical Society, SciFinder provides access to chemical literature, substances and reactions and patents.

Key word searching and research topic browsingGrouping references according to search focus and citation

tracking provided;Ability to search by substance or reactions; Can analyse results in a range of ways (for example

substances by uses, or bioactivity indicators. )Limited links to full-text articles

University Library

The SciFinder database link in OneSearch will take you to this registration page.

https://scifinder.cas.org/scifinder/login

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Once you have set up your login with a UWA email you can go directly to their website:

A search for “Rapivab” finds these reference

To begin a basic search in SciFinder type in your Drug name

References are organised by how strongly they are

represented in the citations

Select, Get References

Carry out a search for the active drug

This first article provides the Active Drug name – Peramivir - and important indexing and search terms.

You can further refine you results, for instance a focus on “uses”

Reduces these results from 809 to 152.

The “Analyse” tab provides another way to

limit and view results.

Important features of the full record

Attempts to link to full text – if you are asked to pay, search for the article/journal in OneSearch

Article and Source Title(Journal or Book title etc)

Note any useful search terms.

Other articles citing this one

Citation list at bottom of record

more likely to be references.

Another way to review results is to select a number of

references and then go to the substances these relate to.

I chose 3 references

specifically about “Peramiver”.

You can then analyse there chemical properties. In this

instance focusing on “Bioactivity indicators”