LibGuides: CHEM 532: Organic Chemistry: Article Databases

Databases for finding research relating to Chemistry

As you get started in searching for scholarly literature on your topics you may want to consult WSU Libraries' Guide How Do I Find Articles - which includes images and tutorials for efficiently locating and refining your searches in our databases, click above, or for interactive tutorial, click here: https://libraries.wichita.edu/c.php?g=937057&p=8800689

A very good place to begin searching is by utilizing WSU Libraries' SmartSearch Discovery Tool which searches the library catalog and most of the databases listed below at once - with useful filtering tools to focus your search among the vast resources available - SmartSearch Advanced Search https://wichita.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/advanced

Chemistry, Biochemistry and Science Databases through WSU Libraries
Expanded list of database subscriptions strong in Biological and Chemistry Science provided by WSU Libraries

SciFinder This link opens in a new window
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Provides citations to worldwide journal literature in chemical and biomedical sciences. Contains the structure and property information for over 25 million substances. Includes reaction searching. Coverage: 1907-present. Restricted to current WSU students, faculty, and staff.

SciFinder Tutorials
Tutorial link for maximizing use of SciFinder database for your research

SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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Databases in the SciTech Premium Collection include: Agricultural & Enviornmental Science Database (1946-Present), Biological Science Database (1946-Present), and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (1950-Present), Medline (1946-Present), Materials Science & Engineering Database (1965-Present), and Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (1962-Present). Terms of Use
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Terms of Use

Scopus Searching Tutorials
Scopus tutorials provide a visual guide to using the product. The tutorials below are also found in the relevant FAQs in the Scopus Support Center.

PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
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Citations, abstracts, and some full-text from thousands of biomedical journals published worldwide in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage: 1966-present.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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How to Use Google Scholar off-campus Provides access to scholarly sources across many disciplines including articles, theses, books, etc. from a variety of publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full-text when available.
Cambridge Structural Database (WebCSD) This link opens in a new window
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Repository of small molecule crystal structures with bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for organic molecules and metal organic compounds. Includes software for search, retrieval, structure visualization, and database creation.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Provides online access to the tables of contents of over 2,500 journals published by Elsevier, with strong collections in the sciences, social sciences, engineering, and medicine. Full-text access to articles is available for over 100 journals subscribed to by WSU and over 150 open access journals.
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To link to ILLiad from Science Direct, click on the article title, then “360 Link to Full-Text”, and then “Submit Request”.
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As of January 1, 2016, ScienceDirect will no longer support Internet Explorer 8.
General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of articles in nearly 300 periodicals in the life sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences. Includes some full-text articles. Coverage of indexing: 1984-present; full-text: 1995-present.
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MEDLINE (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
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Provides citations and abstracts for over 4,800 journals published worldwide in the life sciences with an emphasis on medicine and health. Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Searchable using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings.) Coverage: 2000-present.
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Supplementary Databases for Chemistry Articles

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies (formerly GREENR) This link opens in a new window
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This database focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.
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SOAR - Shocker Open Access Repository This link opens in a new window
SOAR (Shocker Open Access Repository) is the institutional repository of Wichita State University. The purpose of SOAR is to make the University's digital scholarship available to a global audience and serve as a reliable digital archive.

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