Chemistry Databases
PubMed via
National Library of Medicine
Description:
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
NCWC Librarians Say: PubMed is the
largest and most extensive database of medical journal
literature, and contains a huge number of chemistry citations
as well. PubMed does not contain a huge amount of full
text of its own. Use the
Find Journals by
Title portion of the NCWC library homepage to check for
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PubChem via
NLM
Description: PubChem is a database that "provides
information on the biological (and other) activities of small
molecules." It is growing every day, and now has data
far beyond simply biological activities on over 8 million
compounds. Data, structures, and information about a
huge variety of molecules can be found here.
NCWC Librarians Say:
What PubMed is for journal articles, PubChem is for molecules.
This is fast becoming a one-stop-shopping site for data sheets
about a huge variety of organic and inorganic compounds.
Find structures, hazards, uses, and functions of all these
substances.
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ChemRefer
Description: A medium-sized and growing database of
full-text chemistry articles, ChemRefer contains 50,000
articles from chemical and pharmaceutical literature.
ChemRefer links to company, government, open source, and
subscription journal articles with permission from publishers.
NCWC Librarians Say: A great full-text
resource for chemistry; almost everything you find will be a
scholarly article that is available in full text.
ChemRefer is also ridiculously easy to use; just type your
search and click on article titles. Try this alongside
your search of PubMed, or by itself if you would rather not
wade through a ton of non-chemistry articles.
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ChemIDPlus via
NLM
Description: The ChemIDPlus database is a deeper project
related to PubChem, that aggregates data and citations about
roughly 400,000 molecules. You can search for specific
molecules, or molecules meeting certain criteria including
size and toxicity.
NCWC Librarians Say: When you search for
a molecule in ChemIDPlus, you are given a list of different
free, usable, official sites that have a wide variety of data
about each substance. This is really a great site, and
looks to be growing in the future. |
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arXiv
The "premier
electronic source for most streams of research in physics,
mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, and
quantitative biology." ArXiv currently has access to
over 500,000 scientific papers, articles, chapters, and
conference presentations in these quantitative sciences.
NCWC Librarians Say: Though it's available through the
open web, this works much like any of your favorite
databases. A great resource for any of the sciences
that have much to do with numbers. |
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CINAHL via EBSCOhost
Description: CINAHL is the most complete and best-known
database covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences
librarianship, consumer health, and allied health fields.
NCWC Librarians Say: If you're working on
a topic at the intersection of social science and health, such
as epidemiology or the provision of medical care, CINAHL is
essential. |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EBSCOhost
Description: Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and provides abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals.
NCWC Librarians Say: Use this for finding
scholarly resources in the medical fields, especially when
compared with the Consumer Edition. This database
includes medicinal chemistry and pharmaceuticals |
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JSTOR
Biological Sciences, Arts & Sciences
Description: JSTOR
contains the complete text of selected scholarly journals,
going back as far as the journals go back. NCWC offers
access to the Biological Sciences collection, including
complete runs of some major journals in biology.
NCWC Librarians Say: Some relevant
chemistry journals, especially biochemistry and huge titles
like Science, are housed here in long backfiles that let you
find articles from many years ago.
Check out JSTOR's Tutorials on YouTube:
How to
Search and
How to
Browse
(Audio required!)
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Wiley InterScience via North Carolina Consortium
Description: The InterScience database
contains full text for over 2,500 academic journals,
books, and reference works. Disciplines covered well
include business, chemistry, computer science,
education, life sciences, and social sciences.
NCWC Librarians Say:
Almost all of the content on Wiley is unique to Wiley, and
much of it is very useful. The fact that books are lined
up alongside journal articles makes Wiley quite helpful,
particularly for science-related topics.
Other information in
Chemistry and other sciences may be found in the
General/Multidisciplinary article databases.
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