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American Chemical Society Web Editions - American Chemical Society Web Editions, from the American Chemical Society, covers all areas of chemistry. The database offers thirty of ACS' publications for online searching and reading on a 24/7/365 basis. The journals are full-text with all supplementary Materials.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOHost) - chemistry/biochemistry as it is studied and applied in medicine with an easy to use search interface and lets you search other science and medicine databases at the same time.
- The National Institute of Health creates and provides free access to MEDLINE and other life sciences databases:
- PubMed seaches the MEDLINE database and and life science journals. If offers some special features, such as the ability to search find and search Medical Subject Headings.
- PubMed Central - a free archive of life science journals. The Library has configured MEDLINE (EBSCOHost) to link you to these articles from your MEDLINE search results.
- PubChem - a free database that provides information on the chemical structures and biological activities of thousands of organic molecules.
Web of science (Science Citation Index) - The most complete search of science literature available. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching: 1- Trace how an idea has been confirmed, applied, extended or corrected in later work. 2- Identify authors who cite a particular article (your own or someone else's). 3 - Identify highly cited authors in a field of study. 4- Observe the progress of an author's research. 5 - Evaluate the impact of an author's work in a particular field. 6 - Conduct multidisciplinary searches.
Blackwell Synergy - Search a collection of peer reviewed scholarly journals covering: social science, life sciences, physical sciences, medicine, business, economics, accounting, math and statistics.
ScienceDirect - Database for research in Business & Accounting, Economics & Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology, Biology/Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics and more ... Includes full-text articles from over 800 major journals.
ERIC - is generally considered a database to search for education topics, but it can be helpful if you are looking for information on lab / laboratory safety, safety equipment in labs, danger or hazards in labs, science and safety, science classroom safety etc.
Academic Search Premier - can be a good choice for biochemistry/chemistry articles. Be careful how you search it though. It is a huge database with many newspapers and popular magazines. Using the Scholarly/Peer Reviewed limiter is highly recommended.
JSTOR. - Journal articles available from initial date of publication (many from the 1800's) until 3 to 5 years ago. Exact replication of the original journal article.
Learn more about an author's credentials, expertise, and biases.
Biography reference bank -Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
Web of Science - Provides the author's address and contact information in addition to the article citation and abstract. Learn more about the author at his or her institution's web site as well.