Recommended Databases
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.
Contains citations and abstracts from 1,500 domestic and international titles as
well as 100 monographs.
Coverage: 1950s - current
Formerly known as
Environmental Knowledgebase OnLine,
Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of
agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater
science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology,
environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Features RSS feeds that issue alerts when new material is added to search
results.
Scientific, medical and technical information online from over 1,200 full-text,
peer-reviewed journals along with hundreds of book series, handbooks and
reference works.
Coverage: 1995 - current
Full-text access to 35 prestigious journals published by the American Chemical
Society in addition to its weekly newsmagazine.
Coverage: 1879 - currrent
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical,
Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Contains over 9 million bibliographic records and abstracts plus references to
over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and
trade publications.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Engineering Village is 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.
Full-text archive of publications of the American Physical Society, including
Physical Review,
Physical Review Letters, and
Reviews of Modern Physics.
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.
Full-text scientific, technical, 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.
Provides wide coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds,
now in its 88th Ed.
Coverage: 88TH Edition, 2007-2008
Combines over 1,100 essential reference books and databases in the areas of
Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject
areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006
