Databases for Chemistry

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For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
To search across multiple databases at one time, use the QuickSearch function of Brandeis Scholar.

Key Databases

SciFinder Scholar

(You must use workstation SciLibrary 21 at the Science Library only. Access is restricted to Brandeis students, staff, and faculty for educational use only.)

Indexes the world's literature in chemistry and related fields, providing both bibliographic and substance information

Web of Science

Indexes over 5,000 scholarly journals across the sciences. Allows cited reference searching (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1955 to present

CRCnetBASE

Provides property data from the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Combined Chemical Dictionary, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, and Dictionary of Organic Compounds

Combined Chemical Dictionaries

Text and/or substructure searchable database containing chemical, structural and bibliographic data on almost 450,000 compounds, from the major Chapman and Hall chemical dictionaries

Physical property, spectral and structure data for over 29,000 organic compounds from the CRC databases

CS ChemFinder (free resources only)

Indexes chemical compound information available on the Web

Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)

An integrated spectral database system for organic compounds, which includes 6 different types of spectra: electron impact Mass spectrum (EI-MS), Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR), ¹H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum, ¹³C NMR spectrum, laser Raman spectrum, and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrum.

Additional Databases

Dissertation Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions (selectively covers Canadian, British and European dissertations, and masters theses), 1861 to present
See also Current Research @ Brandeis University for current Brandeis theses, 1960-present, with downloadable full text for 1996-present

DGR Web (Directory of Graduate Research)

Directory of chemical and chemically related research and researchers in the U.S. and Canada

PubMed

Indexes over 4000 biomedical journals, including PMEDLINE in-process citations and OLDMEDLINE, 1950s to present

Multidisciplinary Databases

WorldCat

Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide

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