Chemistry Information Introduction
Library Databases
Penrose Library Homepage - http://www.penlib.du.edu
Peak - The library Catalog - http://peak.du.edu/
Prospector - The Colorado Unified Catalog - http://prospector.coalliance.org
SciFinder Scholar
(Info available at http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html)
The largest substance database, CAS Registry, with more than 21 million substances -- including 12 million organic substances. Has the world's most comprehensive database of chemical literature and patents -- The CAplus database. 1967-Present, updated daily. The software is available on Terminals 1, 2, 10, and 14. It is also on several terminals in the Olin Computer Lab. See this webpage - http://silas.penlib.du.edu/sfs/ - if you want to download the 21 Mb software.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbsel.cgi?username=csa12&access=csa1212
Provides access to more than 40 databases. Offers precision tools to make conducting your research precise, quick, and cost-effective.
Biological Abstracts
http://0-search.epnet.com.bianca.penlib.du.edu/
The world's largest collection of abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature and organizing this information for easy access. Provides vital sources of information for life scientists. 1997-Present. 1926-1996 is in print at REF QH301.B37
INSPEC
The leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Also does an excellent job of indexing the chemical, environmental and atmospheric science literature. (Available at Terminal #10, 1989-Present)
MedLine
http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/done=referer;FSIP
Same content as the "free" PubMed Medline database, but this has an easier to use advanced searching mode.
Science Citation Index
Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references. The Science Citation Index covers approximately 3,500 of the world's leading scholarly journals in more than 150 disciplines. (Available at Terminal #10, 1996-Present)
Free Internet Databases
Beilstein Abstracts
http://chemweb.com/gateways/beilstein.html
Beilstein Abstracts has migrated over to ChemWeb.com. Registered users are able to access titles, abstracts and citations from the top journals in organic and related chemistry, published from 1980 to the present. There are currently approximately 600,000 articles in the Beilstein Abstracts Database. (Must sign up for free login and password)
MedLine (PubMed)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases. 1966-Present.
The UnCover Database
The Ingenta UnCover database has current article information taken from well over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals. Contains brief descriptive information for over 11,500,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988.
Provide information that a general-purpose Web index cannot, including physical property data and 2D chemical structures. There are over 75,000 unique substances indexed in the ChemFinder WebServer database from over 350 sites, and these numbers change on a continual basis. They also provide a subscription based database.
Materials Properties Locator Database
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/materials/search.htm
Use this database to find out which reference books contain properties data (mechanical, physical, electrical, thermal, etc.) for particular types of materials. Abstracts, properties and materials covered, and call numbers are provided (May not be exactly correct for Penrose).
ThermoDex : An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks
http://thermodex.lib.utexas.edu/
This database contains records for printed handbooks and compilations of thermodynamic and thermophysical data for chemical compounds and other substances. You can enter both a type of compound and a property, and ThermoDex will return a list of handbooks that might contain this data.
NIST WebBook
Thermochemical data for over 5000 organic and small inorganic compounds. Reaction thermochemistry data for over 8000 reactions. IR spectra for over 7500 compounds. Mass spectra for over 10,000 compounds. UV/Vis spectra for over 400 compounds. Electronic and vibrational spectra for over 3000 compounds. Constants of diatomic molecules (spectroscopic data) for over 600 compounds. Ion energetics data for over 14,000 compounds. Thermophysical property data for 16 fluids.
ChemInfo: Chemical Information Sources
http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/
One of the best repositories for links to informations souces in chemistry and chemical engineering.
Reference Books (This is just a very small sample.) [Kirk-Othmer] Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 1991-Present.
Ref TP9.K54 1991 V.1-25+
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 2000. 81st Edition
Ref QD65 .H3
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. 1997.
Ref Q121.M3 1997 V.1-20
Dictionary of Organic Compounds. 6th ed.
Ref QD246.D5 1996 V.1-9+
Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds. 1992.
Ref QD148.D538 1992 V. 1-5+
Last Updated: January 27, 2003 - 9:20:34 AMJoe Kraus
Science Librarian
Penrose Library
University of Denver
2150 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO 80208
(303) 871-4586
jokraus@du.edu