Information Technology Division
George C. Gordon Library

Databases by Subject - Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

See also Science & Technology and General & Multidisciplinary.

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Database Title In Quick Find Description Coverage Some Full Text Restricted to...
Academic OneFile

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Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included 1980- Y
MBLC
ACS Journals Search

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Full text and search access to American Chemical Society journals.Titles Included 1879- Y
WPI

Search 12 full text titles from American Society for Microbiology - ASM Journals Online. Titles Included | Search Tips 1916- Y
WPI

Indexes 350+ life science journals. Titles Indexed | Search Tips 1994- N
WPI

Search Beilstein for chemical facts including substance structures, reactions, and literature. Search Tips Current Y
WPI
Blackwell Synergy

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Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included | Search Help 1879- Y
WPI
ChemID<i>plus</i>

Chemical dictionary file for over 370,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Search Tips Current Y
Free Web

85th edition, includes data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds, values for fundamental physical constants, and tables needed by chemists, physicists, and engineers. Current Y
WPI

Search Beilstein for chemical facts including substance structures, reactions, and literature. Search Tips Current Y
WPI

Electronic version of Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Search Tips Current Y
WPI
ENGnetBASE

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745+ Engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Search Help Current Y
WPI
Google Scholar

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Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities. Varies Y
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Knovel

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Collection of 900+ science and engineering handbooks, including Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine Titles Included | Help Center Current Y
WPI

National Institute of Standards and Technology provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled under the Standard Reference Data Program. 1900- Y
Free Web
PubChem

Organized as three linked databases, Chem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. Also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool and links to PubMed scientific literature and NCBI's protein 3D structure resource. Help Current Y
Free Web
PubMed

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From the National Library of Medicine, covers clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing and nutrition. Same as MEDLINE. Titles Included | Search Tips | Tutorial 1966- N
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive

Search RSC chemistry journals. Titles Included 1841- Y
WPI
ScienceDirect

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Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips | Tutorial Varies Y
WPI
SciFinder Scholar

Electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, indexing the literature of chemistry. See How it Works 1907- Y
WPI
SpringerLink

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Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included Varies Y
WPI
Wiley Interscience

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Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Titles | Search Tips 1946- Y
WPI

Browse Journals @ WPI

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