Chemistry & Biochemistry (older version): Articles / Patents (Databases)

Good place to begin your search of the science and engineering literature (articles and conference papers), indexing 18,000+ journals and 180,000 conference proceedings. Easy interface for building "and/or" searches to include alternative keywords. Article records include bibliographies of the articles cited, the articles that subsequently cited your article in question, and related articles identified based on common citations.

Essential index to the chemical literature and related sciences, including chemical engineering, materials science, & nanotechnology. Search 52 million article and patent references, CAS Registry (204 million substances, many include property data information and spectra) & CASREACT (millions of single and multi-step reactions and million synthetic preparations). Search by topic/keyword, author, chemical substance (Registry number, chemical name, structure, substructure) or chemical reaction.

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Chemical information database for 53+ million substances and 64+ million reaction, indexed from the journal/patent literature An essential complement to SciFinder for substance and reaction searching. Searchable by chemical names, CAS numbers, structures, reactions, substructures, properties (using the query builder) and topic/keyword. Extensive source for physical property data, indexing hundreds of property fields, and each data point includes a journal article or patent reference.

Core index to the biomedical literature, with 36+ million journal article references from journals in medicine and related sciences. Excellent for biochemistry and other bio- topics like bionano-, biomaterials, and biomedical engineering. Search results are "mapped" to the database's subject headings to retrieve additional articles, For these topics, you may also want to search Embase.

Like Google, but focused on the scholarly literature. Under Settings, go to Library Links to activate UC-eLinks.
**Pros: Full-text article searching can retrieve articles that may not come up in the other databases, so good for interdisciplinary topics. Also indexes faster than the other databases, so you may get very recent articles. Can also view citing articles and related articles, set up search alerts, etc.
**Cons: Full-text article searching that brings up thousands of articles, with very limited tools to refine search results. Through the Advanced Search, you can exclude words, do some boolean "OR" searching, and limit results to articles where search terms are found in the article titles only.

Single platform for cross searching the Compendex and Inspec engineering databases for articles, conference papers, and standards. Also covers physics, physical chemistry and chemical physics; materials science; chemical engineering; nanotechnology; environmental science; and other topics.

Multidisciplinary database that indexes articles in more than 11,000 journals, with full-text available for over 5,300 journals. Indexes scholarly sources and popular ones like magazines and newspapers, but you can limit results to one or the other.

Database for materials science and engineering research, including metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and biomaterials.