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Complete List of Chemistry Databases
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)
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)
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)
"Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world." (CSA)
Chemical Abstracts
See SciFinder Scholar.
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. 
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
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)
"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."
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.

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

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. 
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) 
