Chemistry

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Key databases

American Chemical Society (ACS) Archives Selected Full Text
3 million pages of information on every aspect of chemical science. Articles can date back as far as 1879.

Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). In addition to research in pure chemistry, the database covers literature in the following areas: Agricultural Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Food Sciences, General Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences and Physics and Polymer Science. For further information, see the SciFinder Scholar page.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

PubMed Central (PMC) Selected Full Text
PubMed Central is a digital archive of journal literature on the life sciences.

PubChem
PubChem contains property information for millions of chemical structures, and acts as a repository of compounds and bioassay screening data for the NIH Roadmap.

Royal Society of Chemistry Selected Full text
Covers chemical science and provides access to the RSC Journals Archive back to 1841.

Scitopia.org Full Text
A federated search portal to the digital libraries of science and technology societies.

TOXLINE
TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. The index abstracts journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. CSA's TOXLINE is a 'rolling 5-year' index, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

A Dictionary of Chemistry
Chemical Compounds—information on the ways in which different chemical elements combine.
Handbook of basic tables for chemical analysis
Handbook of chemical risk assessment
Knovel Critical Tables
Knovel Unit Converter
Oxford Reference Online — includes A Dictionary of Weights, Measures and Units
Periodic Table of the Elements
CRC handbook of chemistry and physics: a ready-reference book of chemical and physical data. R540.212/C911/2004
The Merck index : an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals. R615.103/M555/2006

High impact journals

These journals have been selected using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a resource tool for journal evaluation. According to JCR, these journals have a high impact on the scientific literature when compared with other journals in the field.

Accounts of Chemical Research
Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
Analytical Chemistry
Chemical Reviews
Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry
Nature Materials
PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Web sites and Internet resources

ChemWeb provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines.
Intute:Science, Engineering and Technology:Chemistry— The Intute Chemistry Gateway provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. Target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education.
National Chemical Information Gateway— Australian Government web page designed to help you find relevant information about chemicals as quickly and easily as possible.
NIST Chemistry WebBook — National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The PGM database —Platinum Group Metals
Royal Australian Chemical Institute
ScienceResearch.com - searching across science collections.
ScientificCommons.org - aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
Sheffield ChemDex — a directory of chemistry on the WWW.
Wolfram Alpha - A computational knowledge engine which generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.