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A

• ACD’s Interactive Web Laboratory
• ACS Directory of Graduate Research: chemical research and researchers at universities in U.S. and Canada
• Annual Reviews in Biomedical and Physical Sciences
• Atomic Spectra Databases
• ATSDR Toxicological Profiles from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• Available Chemicals Directory-3D in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)

B

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
• Biochemical Pathways (demo access)
• BIOSIS via ISI Web of Knowledge (1926+) index to literature in the life sciences
• Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery

C

• Cambridge Structural Database SUNet ID required
• Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions
• CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety) Plus CHEMpendium
• Chem Sources Online: chemical buyers’ guide
• ChemExper (Chemical Suppliers, Properties Explorer)
• Chemical Abstracts Online via SciFinder Scholar (client-server) (1907+) (No visitor access)
• Chemical Abstracts Reaction Search Service (CASREACT) via SciFinder Scholar (client-server) (1840+). (No visitor access)
• Chemical Acronyms Database
• Chemical Safety Database
• ChemIDplus
• CHEMINDEX from CCOHS
• CHEMINFO from CCOHS
• ChemInform Reaction Library in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• CHEMnetBASE
• CHEMpendium
• Combined Chemical Dictionary in CHEMnetBASE
• Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry in MDL DiscoveryGate
• Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II
• Conference Papers Index
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• CrossSearch via ISI
• CSA Illumina: search mutiple CSA databases in a single search

D

• Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Patents Citation Index, via ISI’s Web of Knowledge) (1963+)
• Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds in CHEMnetBASE
• DIPPR Chemical Database
• DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Dissertation Abstracts International

E

• Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS)
• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online
• Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine
• Environmental Fate Database

F

• Federal R&D Project Summaries: search grants awarded by NSF, NIH, DOE, NAL
• FlashPoint: search BIOSIS (1969+), the citation databases (Arts & Humanities (1975+), Social Science(1973+), and SciSearch (1900+)), Engineering Index (1969+), INSPEC (1969+), MathSciNet (1940+), and PubMed (1966+) in one search
• FTSS Recherche

G

• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• GrayLIT Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports — “the world’s most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature.”
• Grokker

H

• Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
• Hazardous Substances Database (HSDB) in Toxnet. Open to all.
• Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts (1981+)
• HighWire Press + Medline: search the full-text of journals produced by HighWire (e.g. Science, PNAS) plus Medline

I

• IEEE Xplore
• InfoChem GmbH Chemical Structure Search Engine (SPRESI): select IP Login
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: ICSD
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• IPCS INCHEM
• ISI Journal Citation Reports

J

• JCR: Journal Citation Reports: now part of Web of Knowledge — Science and Social Science editions (1997+)

K

• Knovel e-handbooks

M

• Macromolecular Structure Database
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) from Stanford Environmental & Health Safety; see also MSDS & FTSS (French version) from CCOHS
• MatWeb: The Online Materials Information Resource
• MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• MDL Drug Data Report-3D in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Medline is available through PubMed. It is also available through ISI Web of Knowledge, EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid, and NLM Gateway.
• Merck Index
• Metabolite in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Metalloprotein Database and Browser
• Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts
• Methods in Organic Synthesis
• Mind: The Meetings Index
• MSDS & FTSS (French version) Material Safety Data Sheets from CCOHS
• MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) from Stanford Environmental & Health Safety

N

• NANOnetBASE
• National Cancer Institute Database-3D in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Natural Product Updates
• NIST Atomic Spectra Databases
• NIST Chemical Kinetics Database
• NIST Chemistry WebBook
• NIST Data Gateway
• NIST Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems

O

• Organic Syntheses (ORGSYN) in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• OSH References Collection Search

P

• Patents, Inventions, and Technology Transfer: links to many patent databases
• PGM (Platinum Group Metals) Database
• Phase Equilibria Diagram SUNet ID required
• Powder Diffraction File SUNet ID required
• Preprints and Working Papers
• Properties of Organic Compounds in CHEMnetBASE
• PubMed

R

• Reference Library of Synthetic Methodology in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• RTECS: Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances from CCOHS

S

• Science of Synthesis
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• SciSearch (Web of Science) (1900+)
• SearchPlus: search the citation databases (Arts & Humanities (1975+), Social Science(1973+), and SciSearch (1900+)) and INSPEC (1898+)
• Spin-trap Database
• SPRESI: InfoChem Structure and Reaction Databases: select IP Login

T

• Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
• Toxicological Profile
• Toxnet: Toxicology Data Network

W

• Web of Science (SciSearch)

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