Chemistry

Find articles

• SciFinder
  Chemical Abstracts plus substance and reaction information

Multidisciplinary databases

• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Science & Technology

• General Science Full Text
  
  recommended for beginning undergraduate students
• BIOSIS Previews
  biological
• CCINFOweb
  environmental and occupational health and safety, including Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Current Protocols Online
  benchmark laboratory manuals for scientific research methods
• Materials Research Database
• MEDLINE (via Ovid)
  medical - also available in SciFinder
• PIRA (Packaging, Paper, Printing and Publishing, Imaging and Nonwovens Abstracts)
  pulp and paper chemistry (click on the logon button - you do not need to enter a Subaccount number)
• TOXLINE
  all areas of toxicology

You can also search the full text of core journals:

• American Chemical Society: ACS Publications
• Annual Review of Biochemistry
• Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
• Journal of Chemical Education
• Royal Society of Chemistry Online Journals

Books

→ Search the Classic catalogue or the eBooks sub-catalogue.

• SpringerLink or Wiley Online Library each have hundreds of chemistry ebooks to explore.

You can also browse the catalogue, or the shelves at the following call numbers

Background information

If you are not sure what your topic is all about, look it up in a dictionary or encyclopedia. Start with:

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

• Chemical tradename dictionary
• Dictionary of chemistry (Oxford Reference Online)
• Encyclopedia of chemical physics and physical chemistry
• Encyclopedia of computational chemistry
• Encyclopedia of inorganic chemistry
• Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology
• Ullmann's encyclopedia of industrial chemistry
• Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia of Chemistry

Handbooks (sources of chemical data)

• Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards
• CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
• Dictionary of substances and their effects
• Merck index
• Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials

Enzyme Internet sites

• BRENDA - enzyme database
• ExPASy ENZYME - enzyme nomenclature database

Periodic table Internet sites

• ChemiCool
• CRC Press
• WebElements Periodic Table

Physical properties and spectra Internet sites

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ASTDR) Tox Profiles
• ChemBioFinder.com - structures, properties and links to other websites (free registration required)
• Landonlt-Börnstein Online - physical data
• Human Metabolome Database - information on small molecule metabolites
• NIST Chemistry Webbook - spectra, as well as thermochemistry and phase transition data
• Physical Reference Data
• PubChem - information on the biological activities of small molecules
• SDBS - spectral database for organic compounds
• Sigma-Aldrich - search their product catalogues

Search engines

• eMolecules - chemistry search engine that enables structure searching
• Scirus - scientific information

Miscellaneous Internet sites

• ACD/ChemSketch - free software for chemical drawing (registration required)
• American Chemical Society
• Chemistry Central - peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry from BioMed Central
• ChemWeb.com - chemistry portal (registration required)
• Crystallography Open Database
• IUPAC compendium of chemical terminology
• Jmol - free, open source molecule viewer
• Organic Syntheses - procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds

Other resources

• Locating patents
• Locating theses
• Nanoscience and nanotechnology subject guide
• Polymers and polymer processing subject guide
• Pulp and paper subject guide