Chemistry Databases

Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.

American Chemical Society Publications  provides full text searching to more than 11,000 ACS journal issues, 500,000 articles, 2.5 million pages of original chemistry  from 1879 to current ACS Web Editions subscription.

BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts) (1990 - present) combines the journal reference content from Biological Abstracts with the references to meetings, reviews, books, and monographs from Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). Updated weekly, BIOSIS Previews is the ultimate compendium for current life science information.  In 2000, BIOSIS Previews will cover nearly 540,000 records from 5,200 sources including:

• Nearly 350,000 records from journals that focus on vital biological and medical research
• Nearly 160,000 references to items from over 1,500 meetings, symposia, and workshops
• Approximately 20,000 references to review articles
• Over 13000 references to books, book chapters, software
• Approximately 16,000 references to U.S. patents related to the life sciences
• By the end of 2000, the BIOSIS Previews database will include nearly 12.5 million records dating from 1969 to the present.

ChemVillage keeps users abreast of the latest research and technology, business trends and new product developments with access to articles from the most influential scholarly journals, hard to find market research reports, and premium chemistry handbooks.

Compendex & Inspec allows for searching on a broad range of topics within the scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines. Coverage is from 1969 to present. The database is updated weekly.

EiVillage-Inspec is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers and is regarded as the premier database for access to the world's leading scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing and information technology. (Inspec was developed from Science Abstracts, first published in 1898.)

General OneFile  (Help Guide) is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. 

ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences. 

SciFinder Scholar:  Available for use on campus only in the Chemistry Lab and designated computers in the Reference Department of the Main Campus Library.  This Chemical Abstracts Service database covers a broad diversity of scientific literature and patents from 1907 to present in several major scientific subject areas.

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:

• Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
• Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss.
• Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.

State Academies of Science Abstracts  provides information in a variety of fields ranging from agriculture to medicine, chemistry to zoology and serves as an authoritative reference on research specific to a certain state and region. Includes more than 50 years of back journals for most states with back issues periodically added.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.

Wiley InterScience provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.