Library Resource Guide for: CHEMISTRY

Individual Databases for Chemistry

Abstracting and Indexing with Links to Full-Text:

PubMED  
1947-present; PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. [This resource is publicly available.] The Library also has access to MEDLINE via Web of Knowledge.

ScienceDirect    
Current; source for scientific, technical and medical research that provides access to 2,000 journals across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

SciFinder    
1907-present; comprehensive database of chemical literature from databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service and the National Library Of Medicine. It covers the full range of chemistry-related information, including chemical structures, properties, and reactions; biosequences; and life sciences. Each user must REGISTER. USERS MUST HAVE A Brown IP (Ethernet or VPN) AND SUBMIT A BROWN EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN REGISTERING. CREATE A NEW USERNAME AND PASSWORD - DO NOT USE YOUR BROWN LOGIN/PASSWORD.

Use of this resource is limited to current faculty, administrative staff, and registered students and their use is limited to academic research, teaching, and publication purposes only. Any commercial use is strictly prohibited.

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Web Of Science  
1973-present; The Web of Science includes the three ISI citation indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Science Citation Index.

Dissertations & Theses:

Brown Theses and Dissertations  
The Brown University Theses and Dissertations database includes over 15,000 records for dissertations written and submitted in fulfillment of Brown University degree requirements from 1893 to 2000. Included are undergraduate honors theses, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. Records include the author's name, thesis title, degree awarded, year, granting department, and when available, thesis advisor. [This resource is publicly available.]

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text    
1637-present; ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. PQDT Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350 word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150 word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text also offers researchers unlimited access to digital copies from their own institutions as well as affordable copies from others.

Specialized Resources:

e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis  
Current; e-EROS contains a database of over 50,000 reactions and around 3,800 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions etc. and allows sophisticated full text searches.

Knovel Library    
Current; Knovel's "flagship" books are the Plastics Design Library Series, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, ChemEssentials, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, and a host of titles in mechanics & mechanical engineering featuring Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers along with the ASME Boiler and Pressure vessel codes. Knovel's toxicology offerings are quite comprehensive with 21 books. Popular books being the Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, and, Patty's Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene. Knovel has recently partnered with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to make available the many important books in the Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines Series. Lastly, Knovel has many of the important DoD Military Handbooks, including a fully interactive version of MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures.

Reaxys    
1779-present; Reaxys is a web-based discovery tool that searches across the combined content of databases Crossfire Beilstein (organic data), Crossfire Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic data), and Patent Chemistry. Results include structures, reactions (with multi-step synthetic pathways), physical properties, and pharmacological, toxicological, and ecological data. Search by structure and/or fields or use names or phrases to find structures. Replaces Crossfire Beilstein client software.

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