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'CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform'

Covers all areas of chemistry as well as biology, medicine, engineering, material science and more.

Complete the online registration form from on campus/ using the VPN. You will then receive a confirmation email before you can begin searching SciFinder Scholar.  Video guide available here

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Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: academic journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus is a comprehensive resource covering chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering; life and health sciences; social sciences, psychology, business and economics; arts and humanities and biological and environmental sciences. It also includes the Geobase database.

New version available.

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Web of Science

Covers a wide variety of disciplines including engineering, sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Search features include cited reference searching allowing you to discover who has referenced a particular work since it was published.

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Reaxys

Covers an extensive collection of organic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry data. Reaxys enables you to search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Reaxys is valuable for obtaining preparation/reaction methods and physico-chemical data for pure compounds. You can also access the Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry, Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis, and Reaxys Commercial Substances modules.

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Medline

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) bibliographic database containing references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE contains comprehensive coverage of information on medicine, nursing, clinical psychology, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the NLM there is a US bias in the resources offered.

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Espacenet (patents)

World-wide full-text patents database. Patents cover the technical details of an invention together with any associated legal information.

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ChemSpider

A free chemical structure database which can be searched using text or chemical structures.

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Physical Sciences Data-science Service (PSDS)

Access to six high-quality databases: Chemical property predictions; Organic crystal structures; Thermophysical database; Inorganic crystal structures; Compound availability and suppliers; Crystallographic structural database.

ChemRxiv

ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. It gives researchers across a broad range of chemistry fields the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and respond to comments and recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.

Please note that preprints are preliminary reports of work that has not been certified by peer review

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Embase

Embase is a biomedical database containing more than 30 million records. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from more than 8,500 biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research. Indexing using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus and Emtree makes retrieval of information straightforward. Embase is a perfect complement to MedLine.

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Wiley online library

Access to the online library of journals published by Wiley, particularly in chemistry, physics and psychology.

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ARK is the Library's Academic Research Kit. It's a set of online interactive tutorials that can help you with searching, evaluating and referencing information.

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