Core Resources

PubMed

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office

Provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Reaxys

Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. Reaxys accesses the combined wealth of trustworthy, experimental substance and reaction data and bibliographic data housed in the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Databases.

Web of science

Web of Science - All Databases indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Additional Resources

ASTM compass : your portal for standards, testing, learning, & more

ASTM Compass provides access to all the ASTM contents plus robust workflow tools that help finding and using standards more effectively than ever. From one convenient platform, one can access any or all of ASTM's 12,500+ standards, the ASTM Digital Library that contains 1,500+ books, 16,800+ Journal Articles, and more than 47,000+ papers, chapters and articles, as well as online training courses and videos. Complimenting this content are powerful tools which can help adding notes and images to standards, viewing standards that show changes via color-coded highlighting, sharing functions to pass on knowledge, translated standards, and more.

BIOSIS previews

Issued as a part of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the database covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology. Also included are interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology. The database covers content summaries, books, meeting abstracts, papers, and posters. BIOSIS also combines the content from Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.

ChemDraw professional

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ChemDraw Professional is the complete drawing tool of choice for chemists and biologists to create publication-ready, scientifically intelligent drawings for use in ELNs, databases and publications and for querying chemical databases, now including SciFinder®.

ChemIDplus Advanced

ChemIDplus provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substance cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus also provides structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet for chemicals of interest. The database contains over 349,000 chemical records, of which over 56,000 include chemical structures, and is searchable by name, synonym, CAS registry number, molecular formula, classification code, locator code, and structure. ChemIDplus is searchable through TOXNET's Toxicology data search.

CRC handbook of chemistry and physics

Searchable ready-reference resource of chemical and physical data, updated with new research. Coverage includes physical constants of organic compounds, properties of the elements and inorganic compounds, thermochemistry, electrochemistry and kinetics, fluid properties, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, molecular structure and spectroscopy, atomic, molecular and optical physics, nuclear and particle physics, properties of solids, polymer properties, geophysics, astronomy, and acoustics, practical laboratory data, health and safety information. Searchable by text, and by substance/property.

e-EROS : encyclopedia of reagents for organic synthesis

Covers both classical reagents and the new 'designer' reagents used in organic chemistry. Among the types of reagents included are: oxidizing agents, transition metal organometallic reagents, enzymatic reagents, catalysts, protecting groups, peptide reagents and many more.

Engineering village

Web-based information service offering a wide range of resources covering applied science and engineering. Includes Compendex. Compendex contains references and abstracts from some 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Coverage includes all fields of engineering, including nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering. Online coverage including backfile is from 1884 to date and includes the Engineering index.

ICSD web

Collection of crystal structure data of inorganic compounds recorded in the literature of the field from 1913-present.

Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology

Contains the complete text, including citations, tables, and abstracts, of many volumes of the 4th ed. of the Encyclopedia of chemical technology. Covers chemical technology in the areas of agricultural chemicals; chemical engineering; coatings and inks; drugs, cosmetics, and biomaterials; ecology and industrial hygiene; food and animal nutrition; industrial organic and inorganic chemicals; and plastics and elastomers. The manufacture and distribution of chemicals is also covered in the following areas: computers, instrumentation, and control; information retrieval; patents and trademarks; purchasing, materials allocations, and supply; and research and operations management.

Knovel

Knovel provides access to reference materials in the fields of engineering and applied sciences. Subject areas covered include: chemistry and chemical engineering, plastics and rubbers, semiconductors, advanced materials, and safety, health and hygiene.

KnowItAll anyware

Connect to full text. Contact pslref@cornell.edu for assistance.

Online spectral search/retrieval system available to any institution with a valid license to use the system of over 1.3 million spectra (IR, NMR, MS, Raman, UV-Vis) including chemical structures and properties. Users can access spectral data from virtually any hardware platform or operating system.

KnowItAll U.

Connect to analysis client.

KnowItAll U offers unlimited access to over 1.4 million spectra (with related properties and structures). Spectral database includes IR, Raman, NMR (CNMR, HNMR, XNMR), MS, and UV-Vis spectra. Access with KnowItAll AnyWare, a simple platfrom-independent web browser interface. Alternately, access with KnowItAll software for advanced spectral analyses, structure drawing, NMR prediction, and more. Search by full spectrum, peak, structure, substructure, property (name, molecular weight, CAS Registry Number, boiling point, etc.), or any combination.

The Merck index online

The Merck index online offers the same information as the print edition in a convenient and easily searchable full text database. It contains over 11,500 monographs, including historic records not available in the print edition. The Merck index online will be updated regularly with accurate information curated by experts.

NIST chemistry webbook

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office

"The NIST Chemistry WebBook contains thermochemical data for over 7000 organic and small inorganic compounds, reaction thermochemistry data for over 8000 reactions, IR spectra for over 16,000 compounds, mass spectra for over 15,000 compounds, UV/Vis spectra for over 1600 compounds, electronic and vibrational spectra for over 4500 compounds, constants of diatomic molecules (spectroscopic data) for over 600 compounds, ion energetics data for over 16,000 compounds and thermophysical property data for 34 fluids. There are numerous ways to search for data on specific compounds including name, chemical formula, CAS registry number, molecular weight, chemical structure, or selected ion energetics and spectral properties. The NIST Chemistry WebBook is a comprehensive source for chemical and physical property data for chemical compounds."--"Best Free Reference Web Sites 2004." RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2004; reviewed 3/25/2004.

Organic syntheses : a publication of reliable methods for the preparation of organic compounds

Since 1921, Organic syntheses has provided the chemistry community with annual collections of detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Some procedures describe practical methods for the preparation of specific compounds of interest, while other procedures illustrate important synthetic methods with general utility. Each procedure is written in considerably more detail as compared to typical experimental procedures in other journals, and each reaction and all characterization data has been carefully "checked" for reproducibility in the laboratory of a member of the Board of Editors. Organic Syntheses procedures may be accessed either via the tables of contents of individual volumes ("journal mode") or by conducting structure and keyword searches ("database mode"). Specific individual procedures can be accessed via the table of contents for either the original annual volume or collective volume in which the procedure appeared. "Database mode" allows users to simultaneously search all volumes of Organic Syntheses by keywords or by inputting structures and substructures.

OSTI.gov

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office

"SciTech Connect is a consolidation of two core DOE search engines, the Information Bridge and the Energy Citations Database"--FAQ.

PubChem

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office

PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. PubChem is integrated with Entrez, NCBI's primary search engine, and also provides compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features.

SciFinder-n

Link to access full database. Access requires previous creation of an account from registration page.

Core research tool for chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, physics, environmental science and other disciplines.

Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Spectral database for organic compounds : SDBS

An integrated spectral database system for organic compounds, which includes six different types of spectra under a directory of the compounds. The six spectra are as follows, an electron impact Mass spectrum (EI-MS), a Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR), a 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum, a 13C NMR spectrum, a laser Raman spectrum, and an electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrum. Since 1997, SDBS has been open to the public free of charge through TACC (Tsukuba Advanced Computing Center) as RIO-DB (Research Information Data Base).

SpringerMaterials

Provides access to numerical and graphical data on physical and chemical properties of materials and chemical systems. Data sources include the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, the Linus Pauling Files and specialized databases on thermophysical properties, polymer thermodynamics, adsorption isotherms, and substance profiles. Content is relevant to research in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering.

WebCSD

Web interface to Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) without the need to install client software. Contains published crystallographic data on organic, organometallic, and metal complex structures whose 3D structures have been determined using X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction.