Recommended Databases
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.
Citations and abstracts from domestic and international journals as well as books.
Coverage: 1940s - current
Environment Index contains more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s
(including 1,125 active core titles) as well as more than 120 monographs. Environment Index also features
an in-depth thesaurus, and author profiles will be provided for 6,500 authors in the discipline.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment
Coverage: 1975 - current (earlier for some titles)
GreenFILE offers a well-researched collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles
on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text
for more than 4,700 records.
Over 240 scholarly journals covering the liberal arts and sciences.
Coverage: 1863 - 2005
UML has access to two JSTOR collections:
Arts & Sciences I includes the complete back runs of 119 titles
in fifteen disciplines. It includes many of the core research and society
published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as
well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This
collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented
fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Arts & Sciences II contains 124 titles covering economics,
history, and Asian studies. It also offers core journals in several new
disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle
Eastern, and Slavic studies.
Access all issues of the journal Nature along with other content.
Coverage: 1869 - current
The Nature website offers a wealth of information and services in multi formats, including
video, podcasts, rss feeds, blogs, and an entire science job site.
In addition to the complete run of the journal
Nature, UML also has access to the
EMBO Journal,
EMBO Reports,
Heredity, and
Laboratory Investigation.
EMBO stands for The European Molecular Biology Organization. Its Reports provides focused short papers
and review articles while the journal provides complete articles, both covering all
areas of molecular biology. Heredity is an official journal of the Genetics Society. In addition,
free access is available for 36 titles with a one or five year embargo.
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.
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.
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 1,000 handbooks and references from CRC press.
EngNetBase covers all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and
late-breaking developments. Full text of all material can be searched by key word or browsed by topic. Books can be downloaded
in their entirety as a PDF document and saved locally.
Provides wide coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds.
Coverage: 90TH Edition, 2009-2010
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: 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.
