CAS

Pricing for this new Agreement starting in October 2025 has now been sent to existing subscribers of SciFinder.

This is a non-standard Jisc Agreement on the Chest platform for CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform, with CAS BioFinder Discovery Platform available as an optional add-on. It represents a long-standing educational consortium offering where Jisc oversees and distributes institutional pricing but orders are placed directly with CAS.

Benefits

• Discounts from standard academic pricing
• Low fixed annual price increases

Important Dates

Agreement start: 1 October 2025

Agreement end: 30 September 2028

Commitment Period

Institutions may participate in the Agreement at any time during its life, but shall be bound by its Terms and Conditions, including payments, until 30 September 2028.

Licence Type

Site licence

How to Participate

If your institution is interested in participating in this Agreement please contact Chest Help.

Supplier Details

Licensor: CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, whose registered office is 2540 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43202.

Product Description

CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform - connect with the world’s scientific knowledge and find the answers you need to advance your scientific research. Access journals and patents across multiple disciplines and identify chemical substances and structures, names, and properties, including CAS Registry Numbers®. In addition, take advantage of the included structure drawing tool, powerful visualisations, a retrosynthesis planner, bioactivity data, and more. With an easy-to-use search interface, get started quickly and complete your research tasks with confidence.

CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform contains:

• more than 64 million records from various literature sources across areas of science published globally in more than 50 languages dating back to the early 1800s
• around 219 million organic substances, alloys, coordination compounds, minerals, mixtures, polymers and salts
• around 75 million protein and nucleic acid sequences
• around 8 billion experimental and predicted property data points and spectra
• over 150 million single- and multi-step reactions published since 1840
• life science content including SAR, ADME data, toxicity values, bioactivity observations, and pharmacological data for therapeutic invention
• consolidated listings for millions of chemical products from global suppliers
• regulatory lists, formulations, and more including MEDLINE

For more information on content, please visit:

• CAS References
• CAS Patents
• CAS Registry
• CAS Reactions
• CAS Life Sciences
• CAS Formulations
• CAS Commercial Sources

CAS BioFinder Discovery Platform - an optional add-on to the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform. This platform brings together Life Sciences Data and solutions across drug discovery workflows for discovery biology and medicinal chemistry, and allows researchers to:

• explore connections between ligands, targets, biomarkers, and diseases
• run AI-enhanced predictive bioactivity models using data derived from existing literature
• explore 3D protein models
• download bioactivity tables, ADME and toxicity data
• perform structure-activity relationship studies with Matched Molecular Pair Analysis

SciFinder Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT)

Contact EMEAhelp@cas.org to request a copy of the most recent SciFinder Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT).

• CAS Customer Centre - support for product features, account enquiries, access, formulating search strategy and more
• General support: EMEAhelp@cas.org

Your local contacts:

Dr Rosie Gibson, Customer Success Manager, rgibson@acs-i.org

Dr Lee Walsh-Benn, Regional Manager Academia, lwalsh@acs-i.org

The Future of CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform Webinar

Click on the image below to see the slide deck from the webinar held on 5 June 2025:

• Academic Key Contact Resource Centre - for promotional materials, training information and FAQs
• CAS Common Chemistry - open community resource for accessing chemical information
• CAS Chemical Safety Library - free database of hazardous reaction information
• CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool - resource to support researchers and librarians requiring accurate bibliographic information
• CAS YouTube channel - training videos and demonstration workflows for CAS platforms, as well as information about CAS offerings including CAS Future Leaders
• CAS Insights - articles revealing unique connections and perspectives for science, technology and innovation
• CAS Webinars - upcoming and on-demand webinars on platform updates, scientific topics and emerging trends