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ACS Journals This link opens in a new window
Full text electronic journals published by the American Chemical Society.
SciFinder-N
Comprehensive chemical information database with chemical substance and reaction indexed. Covers scientific journals, patents, conference proceedings, and technical papers. 1907 - present. The updated platform SciFinder-n includes new features such as retrosynthesis planning and biosequence search.

Must register before using the first time at CAS Registration
ScienceDirect
Collection of online science and social science journals.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Index to journal and book publications of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Finds scholarly resources on the web. If you are off campus and you use this link from the library website to get to Google Scholar, you will be able to take advantage of localized features such as "Find Full Text at EKU" to link to the full text of library purchased online articles.
Library Search
Start a general search here. Includes all of the Library's online and print holdings.

MatWeb
Enter an elemental composition and find the matching alloys. Find lubricants that meet the property value ranges that you require

STN: Easy
Simplified version of STN on the Web. Group of chemistry and related databases. Includes Chemical Abstracts Online, Chemical Abstracts Old, Chemical Abstracts Registry, and selected Science Citation links to cited references.
Password access available at the Reference Desk in EKU Libraries. Students in some Chemistry classes may be assigned temporary passwords (see Chemistry Instructor).
JSTOR
Provides access to a wide variety of scholarly journals and monographs in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Use JSTOR to find historical information rather than current articles.
STN on the Web: CAS Chemical Abstracts Online
Group of chemistry and related databases. Includes Chemical Abstracts Online, Chemical Abstracts Old, Chemical Abstracts Registry, and selected Science Citation links to cited references. Command-line driven database capable of chemical structure searching.
Password access available at the Reference Desk in EKU Libraries. Students in some Chemistry classes may be assigned temporary passwords (see Chemistry Instructor).

Science.Gov
Searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Famous Scientists' Biographical Memoirs
The Online Collection includes approximately 1,900 memoirs, including those of famed naturalist Louis Agassiz; Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Thomas Edison; Alexander Graham Bell; noted anthropologist Margaret Mead; and psychologist and philosopher John Dewey.

NIST Chemistry WebBook
You can search for data on specific compounds in the Chemistry WebBook based on name, chemical formula, CAS registry number, molecular weight, chemical structure, or selected ion energetics and spectral properties.
THE IUPAC INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL IDENTIFIER
The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChITM) is a non-proprietary identifier for chemical substances that can be used in printed and electronic data sources thus enabling easier linking of diverse data compilations.
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources
ChemDraw
Allows you to draw organic chemistry without having to master drawing.
ChemID Plus
The database contains over 351,000 chemical records, of which over 58,000 include chemical structures. ChemIDplus is searchable by Name/Synonym, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, and Structure.
Open SMILES
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OpenSMILES is a community sponsored open-standards version of the SMILES language for chemistry.
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is an international, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. The journal publishes high quality research and reviews in all areas of organic chemistry, including organic synthesis, organic reactions, natural product chemistry, structural investigations, supramolecular chemistry and chemical biology.
Directory of Open Access Journals & Articles
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Interactive Periodic Table

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