Databases for Chemists and Chemical Engineers

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Agricultural and Food Chemistry

• Agricola (1970+) There is also a version of Agricola open to all.
• Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts (1993+)
• Agris (1975+)
• BIOSIS via ISI Web of Knowledge (1926+) index to literature in the life sciences
• CAB Direct (1973+) agriculture and applied life sciences
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Analytical Chemistry

• NIST Data Gateway
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Biochemistry

• Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
• Biochemical Pathways (demo access)
• BIOSIS via ISI Web of Knowledge (1926+) index to literature in the life sciences
• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Current Protocols
• Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine
• Merck Index
• Metabolite in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• National Cancer Institute Database-3D in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Nucleic Acids Research (Database and Web Server Issues)
• PubMed
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Biotechnology

• Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts (1993+)
• ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts (1989+)
• BIOSIS via ISI Web of Knowledge (1926+) index to literature in the life sciences
• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Patents Citation Index, via ISI’s Web of Knowledge) (1963+)
• Industrial & Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) (1982+)
• PubMed
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Buyer’s Guides

• Available Chemicals Directory-3D in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Chem Sources Online chemical buyers' guide
• ChemCats in SciFinder Scholar
• ChemExper (Chemical Suppliers, Properties Explorer)
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Catalysis

• Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
• Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Chemical Education

• ERIC: various ways to search for works in education
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Chemical Engineering

• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Patents Citation Index, via ISI’s Web of Knowledge) (1963+)
• DIPPR Chemical Database
• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online
• Petroleum Astracts
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Chemical Information

• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)

Chemical Safety

• CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety) Plus CHEMpendium
• Chemical Safety Database: hazardous materials at Stanford
• CHEMpendium
• FTSS Recherche
• Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts (1981+)
• IPCS INCHEM
• MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) from Stanford Environmental & Health Safety
• MSDS & FTSS (French version) Material Safety Data Sheets from CCOHS
• OSH References Collection Search
• RTECS: Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances from CCOHS
• Toxicological Profile

Chemical Substance Identification

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• ChemIDplus
• Combined Chemical Dictionary in CHEMnetBASE
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)

Conferences & Technical Reports

• Conference Papers Index
• GrayLIT Network: Science Portal of Technical Reports — “the world’s most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature.”
• Mind: The Meetings Index
• NTIS: Technical reports; or try the EBSCO version.
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)

Crystallography

• Cambridge Structural Database SUNet ID required
• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: ICSD
• Liquid Crystal Database
• Macromolecular Structure Database
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Electrochemistry

• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• IEEE Xplore: IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology

• ATSDR Toxicological Profiles: from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
• Environmental Fate Database
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Databases Additional help in pdf
• Hazardous Substances Database (HSDB) in Toxnet
• Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
• RTECS Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances from CCOHS
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Toxnet: Toxicology Data Network
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Geochemistry

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• GeoRef (1755+ ) from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• Petroleum Astracts
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Grants & Publishing

• Federal R&D Project Summaries: search grants awarded by NSF, NIH, DOE, NAL
• ISI Journal Citation Reports

History of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (1976+) Not compatible with Netscape 6.1.
• Images from the History of Medicine
• Iter: access to published materials on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science

Inorganic Chemistry

• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: ICSD
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)

Materials Chemistry

• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• Liquid Crystal Database
• MatWeb: The Online Materials Information Resource
• Medline is available through PubMed. It is also available through ISI Web of Knowledge, EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid, and NLM Gateway.
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Medicinal Chemistry

• Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery
• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Dictionary of Drugs in CHEMnetBASE
• MDL Drug Data Report-3D in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Merck Index
• National Cancer Institute Database-3D in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Nucleic Acids Research (Database and Web Server Issues)
• PubMed
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Nanochemistry/Nanotechnology

• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Patents Citation Index, via ISI’s Web of Knowledge) (1963+)
• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• IEEE Xplore: IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• NANOnetBASE
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Natural Product Chemistry

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• Dictionary of Natural Products in CHEMnetBASE
• Natural Product Updates
• PubMed
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Nuclear Chemistry

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• NIST Data Gateway

Organic Chemistry

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• Cambridge Structural Database SUNet ID required
• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry in MDL DiscoveryGate
• Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II
• Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Patents Citation Index, via ISI’s Web of Knowledge) (1963+)
• Dictionary of Organic Compounds in CHEMnetBASE
• Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS)
• InfoChem GmbH Chemical Structure Search Engine (SPRESI): select IP Login
• Merck Index
• Methods in Organic Synthesis
• Nucleic Acids Research (Database and Web Server Issues)
• Organic Syntheses (ORGSYN) in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access) and in a version open to all.
• Properties of Organic Compounds in CHEMnetBASE
• PubMed
• Reference Library of Synthetic Methodology in MDL DiscoveryGate (No visitor access)
• Science of Synthesis
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• SPRESI: InfoChem Structure and Reaction Databases: select IP Login
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Organometallic Chemistry

• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds in CHEMnetBASE
• e-EROS
• InfoChem GmbH Chemical Structure Search Engine (SPRESI): select IP Login
• Metalloprotein Database and Browser
• PubMed
• Science of Synthesis
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• SPRESI: InfoChem Structure and Reaction Databases: select IP Login
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Physical Chemistry

• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Polymer Chemistry & Technology

• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Patents Citation Index, via ISI’s Web of Knowledge) (1963+)
• Engineering Village (EI/Compendex) (1884+) engineering
• Liquid Crystal Database
• Macromolecular Structure Database
• PubMed
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Properties

• ACD’s Interactive Web Laboratory
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• CHEMnetBASE
• DIPPR Chemical Database
• Knovel (numeric searching for e-Handbooks)
• NIST Chemistry WebBook
• NIST Data Gateway
• NIST Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems
• Phase Equilibria Diagram SUNet ID required.
• Powder Diffraction File SUNet ID required.

Spectroscopy

• ACD’s Interactive Web Laboratory
• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Beilstein Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• Combined Chemical Dictionary in CHEMnetBASE
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds via Crossfire (client-server) (No visitor access)
• Gmelin Crossfire via MDL DiscoveryGate (web) (No visitor access)
• KnowItAll Informatics System from Bio-Rad (on computer in Swain’s Reference Room)
• NIST Data Gateway
• Properties of Organic Compounds in CHEMnetBASE
• PubMed
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Theoretical Chemistry

• CiteSeer (NEC Research Institute) “Earth’s largest free full-text index of scientific literature.”
• INSPEC (1898+) physics, electrical engineering, etc.
• SciFinder Scholar (client-server) for searching Chemical Abstracts Online (No visitor access)
• Web of Science (SciSearch) (1900+)

Thermophysical

• DIPPR Chemical Database
• Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems

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