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Complete List of Chemistry Databases

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American Chemical Society Web Edition

Provides full-text access to over 30 journals published or co-published by the American Chemical Society. Click on title to search or browse by journal title. (American Chemical Society) More info

Beilstein / MDL CrossFire Commander

Comprehensive electronic resource of searchable chemical structures, reactions, and facts. This product requires client software. See download instructions and access information. (MDL) More info

Books In Print

Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker) More info

Conference Papers Index

"Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world." (CSA) Find It @ UofL Database Help More info

Chemical Abstracts

Dictionary of Natural Products

Includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. Simultaneous users: 1. More info

Dissertations

EBSCO Academic

Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost) Find It @ UofL Funded by Kentucky Virtual Library Database Help

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Provides full-text access to all IEEE/IEE journals and proceedings since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. Specializes in electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science along with other engineering fields. (IEEE) More info

ISI Highly Cited

"Includes the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work." More info

ProQuest Digital Dissertations

Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account. Database Help More info

PubChem

PubChem is a database of chemical molecules. It includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data. More info

Science Citation Index

Indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports). (ISI's Web of Science) Database Help More info

ScienceDirect

Indexing to journal articles in over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals published by Elsevier. Full-text access to articles in journals to which U of L subscribes to the print version. More info

SciFinder Scholar

Search a comprehensive collection of published scientific research in the chemistry, engineering and bioscience fields by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. This product requires client software. See download instructions and access information. (Chemical Abstract Service) More info

WorldCat

Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (FirstSearch) Funded by Kentucky Virtual Library Database Help More info

 

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