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.

CHEMnetBASE
CHEMnetBase provides access to high quality reference works in chemistry and related subjects. CHEMnetBASE titles

FORENSICnetBASE Full Text
FORENSICnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on forensic science, law enforcement and criminal justice.

Scopus
Scopus provides citations and abstracts for over17,000 academic journals, with many links to full-text. Scopus also provides citation counts and other bibliographical information.

SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). The database includes scientific literature relevant to agricultural science, biology and the life sciences, engineering, food science, chemistry, geology, material sciences, medical science, physics and polymer science.

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
The Web of Knowledge includes Web of Science and a range of other databases, including citation tracking tools.

Wiley Online Library Full Text
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.

Worth a look

Current Chemical Reactions
Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-Expanded), accessed through Web of Science, delivers the latest synthetic methods. Each reaction provides complete reaction diagrams, critical conditions, bibliographic data, and author abstracts.

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Index Chemicus
Index Chemicus, accessed through Web of Science, provides chemical compound information from over 100 leading organic chemistry journals.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

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
This package provides access to the RSC Journals Archive back to 1841.

TOXLINE
TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Chemical Compounds—information on the ways in which different chemical elements combine.
Encyclopedia of chromatography
Encyclopedia of nonlinear science
Handbook of chemical risk assessment
Knovel Critical Tables
Knovel Unit Converter
Oxford Reference Online — includes A Dictionary of Weights, Measures and Units, Dictionary of Chemistry
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

Web sites and Internet resources

ChemistryCentral - open access to full text chemistry journals
ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information.
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.
Free Patents Online - patent searching site
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.
Sheffield ChemDex — a directory of chemistry on the WWW.
SumoBrain - patent searching site
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.