Best Bets
- SciFinder Scholar (CAS) (1907+)
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Bibliographic, compound and reaction information. First-time users must register. - Science Direct (1997+)
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- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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Chemistry Databases
Other Chemistry Databases
- Biochemistry Abstracts 1 (ProQuest) (1981-1993)
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- Biochemistry Abstracts 3 (ProQuest) (1982-1993)
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- Chemoreception Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982+)
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- JoVE UnlimitedCenter for Distributed Learning is providing access through August 1, 2024 to *all* JoVE video content. "10,000+ videos of laboratory methods and science concepts"
Chemistry Data
- BRENDA: The Comprehensive Enzyme Information SystemDatabase of molecular and biochemical information on enzymes
- ChemSpider (Royal Society of Chemistry)ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 63 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
- CSD-Community (Cambridge Structural Database)The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) offers a selection of products and services free of charge for the benefit of the scientific community. Get information about a specific structure using CCDC number, publication DOI, or CSD refcode
- IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database"Mutual solubilities and liquid-liquid equilibria of binary, ternary and quaternary systems are presented. Typical solvents and solutes include water, sea water, heavy water, inorganic compounds, and a variety of organic compounds such as hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, esters and nitrogen compounds. For many systems, sufficient data were available to allow critical evaluation. Data are expressed as mass and mole fractions as well as the originally reported units."
- NIST Chemical Kinetics Database"The NIST Chemical Kinetics Database includes essentially all reported kinetics results for thermal gas-phase chemical reactions. The database is designed to be searched for kinetics data based on the specific reactants involved, for reactions resulting in specified products, for all the reactions of a particular species, or for various combinations of these."
- NIST Chemistry WebBook (National Institute of Standards & Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce)"This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program."
- NMRShiftDB"nmrshiftdb2 is a NMR database (web database) for organic structures and their nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectra. It allows for spectrum prediction (13C, 1H and other nuclei) as well as for searching spectra, structures and other properties."
- OSHA Occupational Chemical Database"compiles information from several government agencies and organizations. Available database reports include: "Physical Properties," "Exposure Guidelines," "NIOSH Pocket Guide," and "Emergency Response Information," including the DOT Emergency Response Guide."
- RCSB Protein Data BankInformation about experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. from the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics.
- Sigma-Aldrich CatalogFree site by the chemical/biological company Sigma-Aldrich, providing spectral data and other useful information for a wide range of compounds.
- 3D Macromolecular Structures (National Center for Biotechnology Information - NCBI)Structures of biologically important substances
Forensic Science
- ASTM Compass (1931+)ASTM standards, journals, and technical publications full text covering a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, and others.
- Ignitable Liquids Reference Collection Database (ILRCC)
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"The database contains hundreds of ignitable liquid records and is being augmented with many of those same ignitable liquids in various stages of deterioration by weathering or degradation by microbial action over time." - National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) (1970+)an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
- Nexis Uni
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Full text of news and legal sources, as well as company and industry data. - NIST Chemistry WebBook (National Institute of Standards & Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce)"This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program."
- Smokeless Powders Database"The Smokeless Powders Database is a regularly updated reference collection of information and data on powders obtained from various sources including vendors and manufacturers. It is designed to assist the forensic explosives analyst in characterizing, classifying and comparing smokeless coffee powder samples based on their physical and chemical properties. Each database record contains a photomicrograph of each powder, source information, physical characteristics as well as GC-MS and FTIR data identifying the chemical components."
- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST, Japan)
"SDBS is an integrated spectral database system for organic compounds,which includes 6 different types of spectra under a directory of the compounds. The six spectra are as follows, an electron impact Mass spectrum (EI-MS), a Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR), a 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum, a 13C NMR spectrum, a laser Raman spectrum, and an electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrum." - TOXNET (NIH)"ChemIDplus contains over 400,000 chemical records. More than 300,000 of those records include chemical structures. ChemIDplus is searchable by Name, Synonym, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, Structure, and/or Physical properties. Enhanced structure display is available in ChemIDplus Advanced."
- Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 256 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Databases by content type
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