Databases by Subject

Provides full text access to 38 publications of the ACS including the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The Web of Science contains several databases:
-Science Citation Index (1965 to present)
-Social Science Citation Index (1965 to present)
-Biological Abstracts (1969 to present)
-Medline (1950 to present)
-SciELO Citation Index (1997 to present)

A comprehensive database covering chemistry, engineering, and biomedicine. Provides access to information in journals and patents. First time users need to register.

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative

This work continues to be the most accessed and respected scientific reference in the world. An authoritative resource consisting of tables of data and current international recommendations on nomenclature, symbols, and units, its usefulness spans not only the physical sciences but also related areas of biology, geology, and environmental science.

The world's repository of experimentally determined organic and metal-organic crystal structures developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC). This links to a free Internet version; for full access to the software visit any library location. Accessible through an ITEP grant awarded to Dr. Tim Royappa.

ICSD is the world’s largest database for fully identified inorganic crystal structures. It is produced by FIZ Karlsruhe and currently contains about 181,000 crystal structures. Updates are made twice a year (in spring and in fall) with data taken from scientific journals and other sources.