Chemical Abstracts provides millions of journal article references from nearly 9,500 major scientific journals worldwide and patents. "SciFinder Scholar" is custom search engine software needed to access the Chemical Abstracts database and is installed on select computers in De Vries Hall.
No computers in Hekman Library or IT lab in the basement of the library have the software installed. The software is available on campus:
- De Vries Hall Student Center (3rd floor, west end)
- De Vries Hall computer labs (select computers in DH306, DH312, and DH224)
- Chemistry research lab computers
Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar) 
