Databases in Chemistry and Biochemistry

It is a bibliographic database that indexes articles in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Physics, Geology, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Sciences and other general science subjects. English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere are covered; non-English language articles are also included if English abstracts are provided.

Indexes articles from journals received by Georgetown plus selected additional sources. 'Genetics and Ethics', a subset of the complete Georgetown collection, indexes articles, books, and audiovisual materials.

A comprehensive database covering the literature of the biological science, it includes more than 20 subfiles such as Animal Behavior Abstracts, Entomology Abstracts, Nucleic Acids Abstracts, etc. You may search selected subfiles seperately or all together. Most subfiles cover 1982 forward, but the Biological Sciences and Living Resources subfile goes back to 1971.

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing free and immediate access to original research articles in biomedical area. All research articles published by BioMed Central are archived in PubMed Central, and are also included in PubMed. Since Clark has joined BioMed Central's Institutional Membership, researchers in Clark have the right to publish an unlimited number of research articles in journals published by BioMed Central without paying any article processing charges.

Brenda - Comprehensive Enzyme Information System

Provided by the National Cancer Institute, this PubMed's cancer subset allows you to seach all cancer-related citations and abstracts of journal articles, meeting papers, research reports, all aspects of experimental and clinical cancer therapy, chemical, viral, and other agents that cause cancer, and the biochemistry, immunology, physiology of cancer.

ChemBank is a freely available collection of data about small molecules and resources for studying their properties, especially their effects on biology. ChemBank is being actively developed by the informatics group at the ICCB and Broad Institute Chemical Biology Program, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute's Initiative for Chemical Genetics (ICG).

ChemFinder.Com is a portal of both free and subscription scientific databases. It gathers information on properties of chemical compounds. The user can search the free edition of database with compound name or structure. This is another useful tool for students who are working on laboratory exercises. The professional's version of ChemFinder called ChemINDEX, does require a subscription, though.

The NIST Chemical Kinetics Database includes essentially all reported kinetics results for thermal gas-phase chemical reactions. The database is designed to be searched for kinetics data based on the specific reactants involved, for reactions resulting in specified products, for all the reactions of a particular species, or for various combinations of these. In addition, the bibliography can be searched by author name or combination of names. The database contains in excess of 38,000 separate reaction records for over 11,700 distinct reactant pairs. These data have been abstracted from over 12,000 papers with literature coverage through early 2000.

This free search engine provides access to a wealth of chemical information from Chapman & Hall/CRC. Searching each Chemnetbase product is free: you can browse, perform searches and view search hit lists. However, viewing or printing the full product entries requires a current subscription.

Current Research@Clark - access Clark Ph.D. dissertations from 1997 to the present

Through the Current Research @Clark, Clark users can:

• Search citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by Clark University and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database
• view 24 page previews of dissertations and theses published after 1996
• Free download the full text of dissertations and theses published after 1996

Digital Book Index provides links to more than 90,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 52,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. It covers most major disciplines—literature, history, science and the history of science, social sciences, medicine, etc. A reference section includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, glossaries, bibliographies, and etc.

"The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. In short, it intends to offer a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
All subject areas and languages will be covered." It allows uset to do keywords searching for the names of the e-journals included within the Directory. Each journal provides full-text access to its articles.

It contains more than 1.5 million listings for doctoral dissertations and master’s thesesfrom institutions in the North America and Europe. Dates covered: 1861 to present, abstracts since 1980, and thesis abstracts since 1988 .

The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. It consists of full-text documents produced and made available by the Department of Energy National Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward.

The Energy Citations Database (ECD) is designed and developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). It is publicly available without charge to users. It includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

This database can be used to search Environmental literature. It covers subjects in general science and life sciences. It includes many subfiles such as Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), Ecology Abstracts, Toxicology Abstracts which may be searched individually, or collectively. Most subfiles are updated monthly.

A gateway to over 13,750 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE

Subjects covered include arts and the humanities, social sciences, science and technology, and all other academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! Dates covered is from 1980 to present.

FedStats is the new window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.

A general interest database, references and/or full text of scholarly and general-interest material, taken from newspapers, periodicals, encyclopedias, and other reference materials.

General science literature from the U.S. and Great Britain, this database contains bibliographic citations with abstracts in the physical and biological sciences, medicine and health.

It is the most comprehensive finding aid for U.S. government publications. A catalog of and index to U.S. government publications received by the Government Printing Office (GPO). An electronic version for 1976 to date of The Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. It covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments. a bibliographic citation is included in each record.

Free online U.S. government information from the Government Printing Office, it provides search and retrieval of full text from over 50 online databases as well as tools and finding aids for other government information, including legislative and regulatory material, as well as publications of all three branches of the U.S. government.

This database offers information from over forty full-text nursing and allied health journals as well as many other publications. It provides access to a wide range variety of health information resources, including the full-text of many documents, periodical articles and book excerpts.Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. Dates covered: 1980 - present. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Index and table of contents to over 17,000 journals. You can either browse the resources by subject area or search the database by topic and find a list of article citations and browse tables-of-contents of journals. Ingenta offers users the opportunity to order copies of articles via fax, download, or email with a fee.

This classic and well-known reference was originally published for the National Research Council in 7 volumes. It contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The original 1000-page index is hyperlinked to each entry's appropriate page.

It is a comprehensive source that provides a rich variety of full text, up-to-date information on current events, business, law, and medicine.

MatWeb is the free materials information database with property data on about 19000 materials including thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, and polyolefins; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, etc

From the National Library of Medicine, PubMed is the free, online version of MEDLINE (and PREMEDLINE). It indexes over 4,600 journals world-wide including clinical and experimental medicine, basic sciences as related to biochemistry, medicine, psychiatry, public health and veterinary medicine; indexes ; It includes abstracts; 1950s - present.

MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Significant items from over 50 U.S. national and regional newspapers, it includes news articles, reviews, editorials, commentaries, editorial cartoons, and other items. Recordes include concise abstracts

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OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. It covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. Similar to the PapersFirst, it covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference.

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. In many cases, link directly to a publisher's site for the full text. Some journals allow access to back issues only.

Indexing of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States. Coverage: 1890-1982.

FirstGov for Science is a gateway to authoritative, selected science information provided by the United States Government agencies, including research and development results.

SciFinder Scholar is an academic product offered by the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). SciFinder Scholar provides most comprehensive chemical and related scientific information and easy access to the diverse scientific information through the CAS databases. SciFinder Scholar can be accessed from the public terminals at the Carlson Science Library. . For more information, please click HERE.

A science-specific search engine that returns journal results, preprint, e-print, and web-based scientific information.

SDBS is an integrated spectral database system for organic compounds, which includes 6 different types of spectra under a directory database of the compounds. The spectra are EI mass, 1H decoupled 13C NMR, 1H NMR pattern (90 and/or 400 MHz), 1H NMR parameter (300 MHz pattern generated), FT-IR, laser-Raman, and ESR. This site is available in both English and Japanese.

Maintained by the Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), this portal page contains a great deal of information about chemical substances. It includes: ChemIDplus, a free web searchable database of 350,000 chemical records, including over 120,000 with 2D and 3D Structures

STN, is operated by Chemical Abstracts Service, offers current and archival information from over 200 scientific, technical, business, and patent databases covering a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, physics, business, and more. STN is designed for searchers who are familiar with using a command language to search online databases. Please see the STN Resources page offered by the CAS Learning Center for details.

This database consists of records from a number of sources on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Freely available (cluster of databases) to all.

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List of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries. Each record has information about specific periodicals and the libraries that have them. It enables users to search journal issues that Clark has holdings.

All patent images from 1976 forward are available in text as well as TIFF image format in the patent search systems. All trademark images are accompanied by descriptions and design search codes which indicate types of images included in a mark on the trademark search systems.

It offers a fundamental reference source covering broad subject areas such as computers, environment, science and technology, taxes, facts, vital statistics, and many more.

OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. This includes books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores,
films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, videotapes. However, unlike other article databases, WorldCat includes very few articles, chapters or papers. These are not covering a journal or subject; only a few in analytics cataloged by libraries are included.

Currently it is free. The NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Database gives easy access to the energies of many photoelectron and Auger-electron spectral lines. It contains over 22,000 line positions, chemical shifts, doublet splittings, and energy separations of photoelectron and Auger-electron lines. It allows users to search by element, line type, line energy, and many other variables.