All Databases in
Chemistry
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- AccessScience
Contains over 7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, and biographies of more than 1,200 scientists. Online version of print McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
current.
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- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
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MHEST.com, a free online companion to the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. The site has been completely redesigned and now features an index search tool, more supplemental articles, 9 Spotlights including audio interviews and other rich media from AccessScience, related McGraw-Hill titles, and additional multimedia offerings.
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- Analytical WebBase
Covers 250 international journals in the field of analytical chemistry, plus equipment manufacturers' application notes, standards and books.
1980-current.
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Updated each week with around 300 new records to provide unparalleled coverage of analytical chemistry information.
Areas of analytical science covered include:
- ANALYTE - the substance being determined
- MATRIX - the material being analysed
- TECHNIQUE - including fields of study, instruments, physico-chemical parameters
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- Chromatography, electrophoresis, spectrometry and radiochemical methods
- Inorganic, organic and organometallic analysis, including applied and industrial products
- Clinical and biochemical analysis, including proteomics and genomics
- Pharmaceutical analysis, including drugs in biological fluids
- Environmental, agricultural and food analysis
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- Beilstein (via DiscoveryGate)
Information on over 7 million organic compounds. Covers chemical structures, data on preparation, reactions, physical properties such as boiling point, melting point, and spectral identification. Note: Beilstein does not index polymers.
1771- present.
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- BIOSIS Previews
Scholarly articles in biology. Essential source for research in biology.
1969-current.
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Excellent search for biology-related research.
The premier database of world biology literature, and a primary source for any biology-related research, BIOSIS Previews contains the references to journal literature from Biological Abstracts, the references to meetings, reports, review articles, books and monographs from Biological Abstracts/RRM, as well as some unique references.
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- ChemFinder
Provides specific gravity, vapor density, water solubility, and many other chemical and physical properties, as well as links to spectra information.
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Useful for finding the CA Registry Number of common compounds, simple structures as well as physical-chemical properties such as specific gravity, vapor density, water solubility, and many other chemical and physical properties, as well as links to spectra information.
- Compendex
Interdisciplinary engineering database, with over 6 million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings.
1970 to present.
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Abstracts from over 5,000 international journals, conferences papers and technical reports are included. Over 220,000 abstracts added annually.
Features:
- Over 6,000,000 records from 1970 to the present
- An update every seven days
- References and abstracts from over 5,000 journals, conferences and reports
- Ei Thesaurus, containing over 9,000 terms and synonyms
Instant in-depth coverage on:
- Aerospace Engineering
- Agriculture Engineering & Food Technology
- Automotive Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer and Data Processing
- Control Engineering
- Control Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Engineering Geology
- Engineering Management
- Engineering Mathematics
- Engineering Physics
- Environmental Engineering
- Fuel Technology
- Industrial Engineering
- Instruments and Measurement
- Light and Optical Technology
- Material Science
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metallurgical Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Nuclear Technology
- Ocean and Underwater Technology
- Petroleum Engineering
- Sound and Acoustical Technology
- Transportation
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- e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
An online encyclopedia of reagents for organic synthesis.
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- Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
- EROS
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Systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic chemistry. From Acetaldehyde to Zirconium Tetraisopropoxide the A to Z listing covers both classical reagents and new "designer" reagents.
It contains a database of around 50,000 reactions and around 3800 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions etc. and allows sophisticated full text searches.
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- Knovel Library
Over 800 full-text engineering and scientific reference works, handbooks, encyclopedias, reference books, and standards in engineering and chemistry.
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- Physical Chemical Properties for Biologists, Chemists and Engineers
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Subject areas include chemistry and plastics, materials science, environmental science, microelectronics materials, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, chemical engineering, systems engineering, food sciences, and mechanical engineering.
Knovel has embedded data with a set of innovative analytical tools to make the data found more productive. The software allows for graph plotters, equation plotters, digitized graphs and other tools to customize data from the available tables.
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- Methods in Organic Synthesis
Covers new reactions and reagents, functional group changes, the introduction of chiral centres, and enzyme and biological transformations. Items are included in MOS only where there are interesting features in organic synthetic methods.
2000-present.
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Access to important new developments in organic synthesis. It covers such topics as new reactions and reagents, functional group changes, the introduction of chiral centres, and enzyme and biological transformations. Items are selected for inclusion in MOS only where there is detail of novel or interesting features in organic synthetic methods so that there are no routine preparations to plough through.
Each monthly update to contains over 200 items presented as reaction schemes, title and bibliographic details, and is indexed by Author, Product, Reaction, Reactant and Reagent.
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- Organic Syntheses
Covers preparation of important organic molecules and the illustration of novel synthetic methods. Contains all of the nine Collective as well as Annual Volumes and Indices.
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- Reaxys
Reaxys provides in-depth chemical substance and reaction data particularly useful for compound synthesis.
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The Reaxys database provides a single platform to search the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry, Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, the US Patent and Trademark Office Database and world and European patents. Reaxys provides in-depth chemical substance and reaction data particularly useful for compound synthesis.
Reaxys includes both the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
Please note: to register as a user, click on the "register" link in the upper right of the red bar at the top of the initial screen.
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- ScienceDirect
Scholarly journal articles in physical and chemical sciences; life sciences; health sciences; engineering; psychology; social sciences, and humanities.
1995-current.
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Elsevier Science journal collection (
over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. Note: UConn does not have free access to all journals.
Topics include:
- Biochemistry
- Biological Sciences
- Business & Management Science
- Chemistry
- Clinical Medicine
- Earth Sciences
- Economics
- Engineering & Technology
- Environmental Science
- Materials Science
- Mathematics & Computer science
- Microbiology & Immunology
- Neurosciences
- Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Physics
- Social Sciences
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- SciFinder Scholar Web Access
Search Chemical Abstracts and the CAS Registry File of over 19 million chemical substances. The CAS RegistrySM in SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar has been enhanced with additional experimental properties from 1920 - 1987 CA records.
1967-current.
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- Scopus
Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching.
1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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Because UConn holds a license to
Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.
Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".
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- Surface and Colloid Chemistry Handbook
Complete CD-ROM handbook for the chemistry of surface and colloidal systems. Summarizes developments in theoretical and applicable research and includes details often not available in journal articles.
1999.
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- Web of Science
Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching.
1994- present.
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Science Citation Index
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- Agriculture
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Oncology
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- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Physics
- Plant Sciences
- Psychiatry
- Veterinary Science & Zoology
Social Sciences Citation Index
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- Anthropology
- History
- Information Science & Library Science
- Law
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Political Science & Industrial Relations
- Psychiatry & Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work & Sociology
- Substance Abuse
- Urban Studies
- Women's Studies
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Art & Architecture
- Archaeology
- Asian Studies
- Classics
- Dance
- Folklore
- History
- Language & Linguistics
- Literature & Literary Reviews
- Music
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Radio, Television, & Film
- Religion
- Theater
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