Recommended Databases
Access to 35 ACS journals plus its weekly news magazine.
Coverage: 1879 - current
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications provides searchable access to over
130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000
articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to
the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.
Premier chemistry references, presenting facts, formulas, tables, and illustrations.
CHEMnetBASE offers the following resources. Each product is a separate entity
and can only be searched on its own.
Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD) - combines the
following titles into one searchable database:
Dictionary of Commonly Cited
Compounds,
Dictionary of Drugs (Formerly Pharmasource),
Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds,
Dictionary of
Natural Products,
Dictionary of Organic Compounds
The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, now in its 87th
Ed. - with the most heavily used tables updated and expanded.
Polymers: A Property Database - is fully searchable
and offers the ability to produce tables customized to user preference.
Properties of Organic Compounds - contains over 29,000
of the most commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral
data, and structures.
Provides wide coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds.
Coverage: 90TH Edition, 2009-2010
Citations and abstracts covering rubbers, plastics, adhesives and polymeric composites.
Coverage: 1972 - current
Source material for
Polymer Library is selected from more than
500 journals in a wide range of languages from 30 different countries including
North America, Australia, Europe, Japan, and China. Source material is also
collected from books, technical reports and trade literature. In 1994, patent
information relating to rubber and plastics industries was added to the
database.
Nearly 1,600 peer-reviewed journals covering many areas of science, medicine, computers, business and more.
Coverage: 1995 - current
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's
science, technology and medical published content. UML has full text access to 1,590 peer-reviewed journals
with citations and detailed abstracts available for over 1,000 other journals.
Apart from the sciences, computer science, mathematics, business and economics are also covered.
In addition, the Backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical
archive of over 6.75 million articles back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The collections
contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.
Scientific, technical, and medical content from journals, books, reference
works, databases, laboratory manuals and
The Cochrane Library.
Coverage: 1997 - current
Wiley InterScience is a leading international resource for
quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific,
technical, medical and professional endeavors with content from journals, books,
reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and
The Cochrane Library,
which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than
half of Wiley's journals on
Wiley InterScience are digitized back to
Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative.
When the initiative is completed in 2007, it will be one of the largest archives
of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of
scientific and scholarly research.
Analytic reviews within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences fields.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and
identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the
Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of
distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and
filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR
article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each
article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary
research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are
among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute
for Scientific Information® (ISI).
Access to all 11 journals of the American Society for Microbiology.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916
ASM Journals Online is the browsable and searchable online collection of all
journals published by the American Society for Microbiology. The Society's
journals "cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular
biology to biomedical research and technology." ASM Journals Online site also
includes the Minireview Collection, a collection of ASM minireviews published in
the last 12 months.
View, download, and print any of 12,000+ ASTM standards.
ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards development
organizations in the world-a trusted source for technical standards for
materials, products, systems, and services. Known for their high technical
quality and market relevancy, ASTM International standards have an important
role in the information infrastructure that guides design, manufacturing and
trade in the global economy.
Over 2.3 million science research citations and documents from Dept. of Energy.
Coverage: 1943 - current
The ECD combines over two million citations with nearly 200,000 full text documents
that cover scientific and technical research results in
disciplines of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) such as
chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering,
mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related
disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature,
conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
Research, properties, and applications of polymers, ceramics, and composites.
Coverage: Mostly 1986-current
Engineered Materials Abstracts includes the following
subfiles with combined coverage of over 3,000 periodicals, conference
proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books,
and press releases:
Advanced Polymers Abstracts-- captures technical
information about the uses, manufacturing, and properties of thermoset and
thermoplastic resins.
Composites Industry Abstracts -- focuses on polymers
and ceramics reinforced with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates.
Engineered Materials Abstracts, Ceramics -- captures
complete worldwide information about ceramics.
Polymer Library (formerly Rapra Abstracts) --
information on rubbers, plastics, adhesives and polymeric composites.
Bibliographic records and abstracts of scientic and engineering research.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Engineering Village includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts
from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. It's composed of a combination of several
extensive databases:
Compendex contains bibliographic information and abstracts for
over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering and applied
science.
GEOBASE is multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic
information and abstracts for the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human
geography, and oceanography. The database covers approximately 2,000
international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade
publications;
Inspec, produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers,
contains over eight million bibliographic records taken from 3,500 scientific
and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings;
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database from
the U.S. Department of Commerce;
Referex Engineering contains engineering reference titles in
eBook format.
Articles on chemical substances— their properties, manufacturing, and uses.
Written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical
Technology presents a wide scope of over 1,000 articles on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses.
It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals
and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are
also addressed. Monthly updates keep the online version on the cutting edge of chemical technology.
One-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
Coverage: 2006, 14th ed.
The
Merck Index Online is the internationally recognized encyclopedia of
chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and
natural products. It contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental
tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions. The information provided includes
chemical, common and generic names, trademarks and their associated companies,
CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity
data, therapeutic and commercial uses, chemical structures and selected
literature references for each substance. Compounds are indexed by Name,
Formulae, CAS Registry Number and Therapeutic Category/Biological Activity.
Complete archive of physics journals from the American Physical Society.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916
The complete archive consists of all of
Physical Review back to
1893, all of
Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of
Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929. The majority of the collection
consists of scanned images of the printed journals available as either GIF
images or as PDF files. Portions of the 1995 and 1996 content and all content
thereafter, however, consist of PDF files that are produced directly as part of
our paper printing process.
You must first register before using this database.
Access to the complete Chemical Abstracts Service and Medline databases.
Coverage: CAS 1907 - current, Medline 1950 - current
SciFinder Scholar is an electronic version of the complete Chemical Abstracts starting from 1907. It provides
access to more than 8000 journal and patent references (from over 32 patent-issuing organizations), and includes
more than 30 million substance records and CAS Registry Numbers. Users can search the chemical literature
(journals and patents) in a variety of ways: author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure
or chemical reaction. The CAS databases are a comprehensive collection of published chemical literature.
The complete Medline database from 1950 on is also searchable through SciFinder Scholar.
A collection of toxicology and environmental health databases.
TOXNET is a free U.S. government collection of databases that can be used to locate
toxicology data, literature references, and toxic release information on particular chemicals as well as to
search to identify chemicals that cause specific effects. TOXNET offers a
variety of ways to display and sort information. Its "Multi-Databases" feature
provides an integrated search of any or all of several databases (HSDB, IRIS,
CCRIS, GENE-TOX). Its "Search All Databases" feature provides a list of TOXNET
databases in which a search term is found, each paired with the retrieval record
count and with links to the Search Results page of those databases.
Search for books, journals and non-print materials.
Signup for your own personal account so that you can create a personal bookshelf in order to
create and save highlights, notes, and more. Download the ebrary Reader in order to take notes, highlight, and use
other advanced features. Click on the help icon above for information on how to take advantage of the
many special features in ebrary.
Over 1,600 engineering reference books covering many scientific topics as well.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Knovel Library content covers 18 industrially important Subject
Areas from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies
including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press,
American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. This data is enhanced with time-saving analytical tools to help
analyze and manipulate the data equations and plot graphs, capture values from
existing graphs and perform 'what if' experiments on the data.
Over 4,400 ebooks covering all major subject areas.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - current
NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four
criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by
publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the
Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four
books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline,
downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session.
By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your
personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.
