Research Guides: Chemistry & Biochemistry: Electronic Resources

Additional Resources

Periodic Table

Databases & Effective Searching

Useful Electronic Resources

There is a selection of databases available online through FSU, but there are many more databases for a wide variety of specializations in chemistry and biochemistry. Many of them are accessible through the general "@FSU-Chemistry Databases" link. Please contact the subject librarian for Chemistry and Biochemistry if you have questions or would like assistance locating an item.

@FSU - Chemistry Databases
A longer list of databases relevant to Chemistry which FSU subscribes to. Includes links to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, SciFinder Scholar, ACS Web Edition, and others.

Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
An excellent tool on social science research methods includes over 1000 methods books, 1100 case studies, reference works, journal articles, and instructional video tutorials by world-leading academics from across the social sciences. In addition, the full-text titles from the Sage’s Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series(“The Little Green Books”) and Qualitative Research Methods Series ("The Little Blue Books”) books are available.
Abbreviation: srmo
Vendor: Sage Publishing
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject, Communication, Rhetoric & Composition, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Citation Management, Datasets / Statistics, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Research Starter, Streaming Video

American Chemical Society Web Edition
American Chemical Society, (ACS), publishes more than 40 peer-reviewed journals with cutting-edge articles across a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines including energy, fuels, toxicology, agriculture, food, and biochemistry.
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A link to a tutorial on browsing and searching content is available at http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/demo/symposium/index.html.
INSPEC and Compendex (Engineering Village)
Database focuses on engineering, physics and computer science but also covers physical chemistry and nano-related topics. Compendex and INSPEC can be searched at the same time through Engineering Village database.
MEDLINE (PubMed)
PubMed comprises over 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
SciFinder Scholar
The SciFinder Scholar system provides access to several Chemical Abstracts Service databases, including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCAT. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, and dissertations. **First time users will need to create a SciFinder account.
Web of Science (Web of Knowledge)
Web of Science indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines and is great for citation searching. **For best results in the sciences go to "more settings" and deselect some of the humanities databases.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
An open access database with access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the internet. The data provided in the site are from collections maintained by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and outside contributors. Data in the WebBook system are organized by chemical species. The WebBook system allows users to search for chemical species by various means. Once the desired species has been identified, the system will display data for the species.
ChemIDplus
The National Library of Medicine's open-access database of over 370,000 chemicals. To search the database enter compound identifiers such as Chemical Name, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, and Structure or Substructure. New searchable features include search and display by Toxicity indicators such as Median Lethal Dose (LD50), by Physical/Chemical Properties such as LogP, and by Molecular Weight.

Nanoscience

Materials Science & Engineering Collection This link opens in a new window
The Materials Science & Engineering Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. The Copper Technical Reference Library and the renowned METADEX database are also included. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
Abbreviation: csaengineer
Vendor: ProQuest
Subjects: Engineering, Material Science
Type: Indexes / Catalogs