Research Guides: Chemistry: Chemistry Research Resources

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ACS Journals
Journal articles published by the American Chemical Society.
SciFinder-N
Chemistry patents, regulatory data, supplier, reaction, and substance information and journals.

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ScienceDirect
Journal articles in science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities.
Web of Science Core Collection
Citation search of journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.

Includes Grants Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Google Scholar
Broad search for scholarly information.

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Library Search
Search EKU Libraries for articles, books, media, and more.

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

JSTOR
Journal articles, eBooks, and images primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Includes historical texts and primary sources.

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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