Chemistry Subject Guide

Top Article Databases

  • CrossFire is a client/server application for searching the world's largest electronic collections of organic chemistry, inorganic and organometallic data: CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin. The two data files contain millions of compounds and reactions.
  • For medical articles - this is the place to go. For the most up-to-date access to peer-reviewed articles on an incredible variety of biomedical topics, including medical research, genetics, bioinformatics, physiology, oncology, nursing and more. If you don't see the UC E-Links button in the Abstract display, you are not in the customized UC version!
    Covers articles written in mid-1960's - present.
  • Requires either a downloaded client or web client, to access the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, and CASREACT.
    Covers: Chemical Abstracts (1967- ); Registry (1957- ); CASREACT (1985- )
  • Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
    Covers: 1900 - present.
    ISI

Other Article Databases

  • Database of articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and news sources with full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.
    Coverage: 1990 - current
    Ebsco
    Academic Search Complete
  • Searchable database containing the full text of over 40 journals from the ACS.
    Coverage varies. Most journal subscriptions begin 1996-2000.
  • Searchable, full-text database of journals from the RSC.
  • Large article database covering scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature.