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Literature Databases
These are the most powerful and useful databases for chemistry students when searching for literature.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A vast index of literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has cited a particular document. 1898 - current. -
PubMed This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The US National Institutes of Health provide this free index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. If full text is not linked to or provided for a particular citation, search our Journals List to see if we have alternate access to the journal publishing that article.
Structure/Reaction and Chemical Entity Searching
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SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
The new, updated version of SciFinder Scholar. Find chemical and related scientific information. FIRST TIME USERS must register to search this database here.
SciFinder is a chemical index. This means you can identify literature and other relevant resources using a standardized chemical structure.
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Getting Started with CAS SciFinderWatch brief video tutorials to understand searching and capabilities of SciFinder.
Additional Chemistry Related Databases
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Chemistry Subject DatabasesCarleton Library features a database finder. This lists all of the databases that Carleton has access to that are important for Chemistry.
