Databases for Chemists and Chemical Engineers

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Links to help for specific resources.

• Annual Reviews
• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry (1779+) (No visitor access)
  • via MDL DiscoveryGate (web version)
  • via Crossfire (client-server)
• BIOSIS (1926+) index to literature in the life sciences
• Chemical Abstracts Online (1907+) (No visitor access)
  • via SciFinder Scholar (client version) [off-campus access]
  • via web version of SciFinder (one-time registration required / more information)
• Derwent Innovations Index (1963+)
• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (1772+) (No visitor access)
  • via MDL DiscoveryGate (web version)
  • via Crossfire (client-server)
• INSPEC via LANL (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• 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.
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)
• SearchPlus to search the citation databases [Arts & Humanities (1975+), Social Science (1973+), and SciSearch (1900+); BIOSIS (1969+), Engineering Index (1884+), and INSPEC (1898+)]

If you are having problems accessing databases from off campus, see information on proxy access. For help with EndNote or Refworks, see Using Bibliographic Management Software at Stanford.

See Also:

• Alerting Services
• Journal Abbreviation Sources