A-Z Databases

CAS SciFinderⁿ is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder®, CAS SciFindern includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

Users can access using their existing SciFinder credentials.

New To SciFinderⁿ? Gain access to SciFinderⁿ, register as a new user. If you are off campus gain access in 3 steps:

1. Install and run AnyConnect to connect to the UCT network.
2. Register as a new user .
3. Once you verify your email, you'll be ready to access SciFinder-n.

Note that if an account is idle for 18 months or more, access will be deactivated. To restore access, please contact help@cas.org.

.Gale Primary Sources is an integrated platform that combines Gale’s digital archives into a single cross-searchable interface. This broadens and enhances the ability to discover primary source documents from multiple collections. This platform combines dozens of historical archives which include monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs and covers more than 500 hundred of years of history.

JSTOR provides access to a number of older journal articles.

PressReader provides online access for the last 12 months to over 700 newspapers from more than 55 countries (incl. South Africa). Register or sign in with your UCT email address to personalise your reading experience:

• Customize your home feed to feature your favourite publications


• Follow people, groups and publishers that interest you


• Curate for your interests using My Topics


• Share articles with others


• Set up email alerts to receive notifications when new articles are published on a topic of interest.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

"Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process."

The Web of Science is a large, broad-based abstracting database with direct links to journal articles.