Pfeiffer Library: Chemistry: Search Options

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Are you looking for a specific database? Try our A to Z list.

These library provided databases are your best bets! Again, make sure you know your university credentials to utilize these resources off-campus.

MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive index for medical journals and provides full text for more than 1,370 journals.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the sciences.
Platform access - subdatabases listed
ACS Journals This link opens in a new window
Journals from the American Chemical Society, 1879-the present.
Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

These free web resources may also prove useful.

PubChem
PubChem is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 43 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
BRENDA
BRENDA (BRaunschweig ENzyme DAtabase) is an enzyme information system representing one of the most comprehensive enzyme repositories.
NIST Data Gateway
Provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data. These data cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Provides users with easy access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the internet. The data provided in the site are from collections maintained by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and outside contributors.
Science.gov
Provides a search of over 60 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2200 scientific Websites.
National Science Foundation
NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences.
WebElements Periodic Table
Explore the essentials of the chemical elements through this periodic table.

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