Chemistry: Databases

The most important database for chemistry, Covers articles, patents, book chapters, conference proceedings, and dissertations that have been indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service from 1907 to the present. Search by keyword, structure, reaction, chemical name or CAS Registry Number. First time users must create a user name and password.

Cheminformatics database that includes chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacology data. Indexes information with multiple taxonomies and includes a broad range of data types from patents, journals, and books: organic, inorganic and organometallic substances, including data on natural products with their species derivation, chemical reactions, experimental facts, including substance property, spectral and reaction data, documents from chemistry-related periodicals, and patents from around 105 patent offices.

A numeric database containing records of >232,000 inorganic crystal structures. It is installed on one of the computers at the 2nd floor Reference Desk in the main library (the name of the shortcut to ICSD is "Find It").

Contains published crystallographic data on more than 750,000 organic, organometallic, and metal complex compounds. Search by structure, substructure, chemical name, cell parameters, and molecular formula.

Same as above. Access via VMware is available to students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the College of Engineering.

The main database for engineering, Indexes engineering and technology journals, reports, monographs and conference proceedings from 1970 to the present. Can be a useful place to look for applied chemistry articles and conference proceedings that SciFinder may miss.

>22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Covers the fields of biomedicine and health, as well as portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

Interdisciplinary database that covers the major journals in all sciences, including chemistry, medicine, and engineering.

Biomedical medical literature database that allows users to build comprehensive systemic reviews. Includes content from 1947 to the present indexed using unique Ebase subject headings and the Emtree life science thesaurus.

Provides access to much of the world's scholarly literature from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, and scholarly articles available on the Web. It lacks the indexing that most databases listed above offer, but provides broad coverage and is useful for checking references, finding links to full-text, and cited reference searching.