Databases/Article Indexes for Chemistry


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

Recommended resource
Beilstein Crossfire via DISCOVERYGATE
1771-current (abstracts from 1980-current)

Off-Campus users must use Drexel's Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access this resource. See Drexel VPN Instructions for assistance.
An essential database for organic chemistry information, now in a web-based application.
 
Chemical Abstracts (Scifinder Scholar Web Version)
1967-current

4 concurrent users maximum. Password Accessible
Web Search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. CAS Scifinder Scholar is also available in a downloadable version here. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).
 
Chemistry Preprint Server
2000-2004

Open Access
Freely available and permanent web archive for research articles in the field of chemistry, containing over 120 chemistry related papers. The site no longer accepts new material as of May 2004.
 
CRC Handbooks in chemistry.
 
ChemRate is a program containing databases with experimental results on unimolecular reactions, information pertaining to transition state and molecular structures necessary for the calculation of high pressure rate constants and thermal functions respectively.
 
ChemVillage
Dates vary
Search environment for Chimica, Beilstein Abstracts, chemical news, patents, and selected CRC Press handbooks.
 
Interactive site for chemical kinetic mechanisms, developed by the NIST/CSTL/PMD.
 
General Science Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose General Science subject area
The General Science selection of Wilson Omnifile provides fulltext to sholarly and popular journals covering research and innovation in the sciences.
 
Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
85th edition , 2004-2005
Online equivalent of the 84rd edition of this print classic.
 
Database of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
 
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
1973-current

Open Access
A searchable database for information about chemicals and chemical toxicity.
 
Contains a collection of calculated binary and ternary systems that are relevant to solders.
Recommended resource
CRC Encyclopedias and Handbooks covering polymer information .
 
Table based on "New and revised half-life measurements results," by M.P. Unterweger, D.D. Hoppes, and F.J. Schima (1992), is a revised listing of the half lives determined at NIST since 1967.
Recommended resource
ScienceDirect
1995-current
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.
 
Scifinder Scholar
1967-current

4 concurrent users maximum;Users must be on campus to download and access SciFinder Scholar. If you are off campus, and would like to download this resource, you may do so through Drexel's Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. Scifinder Scholar is now also available in a web version here. Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM).
Recommended resource
Scifinder Scholar Web Version (NEW!)

4 concurrent user limit. Password accessible.
SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! Includes access to current, high-quality scientific information and capabilities for exploring substructures and reactions. The web version allows for access to Scifinder without any software downloading. Also available in a downloadable version here
 
TOXLINE via NLM
1966-current

Open Access
TOXLINE is a bibliographic database covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
 
Contains nearly 1000 major articles, written by some 3,000 authors who are experts in their fields and affiliated to leading chemical companies or research institutes.

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