Chemistry

Major Databases

SciFinder Scholar is the most comprehensive chemistry database.  You must create a personal login. Email Alfred Fry if you have problems.

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Reaxys is a database of chemical compound properties, structures, and reactions with references to the journal and patent literature of chemistry.  This database combines the content formerly found in Beilstein and Gmelin.

Scopus is the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature.  Also good for citation analysis.

Science Citation Index, part of Web of Science, allows you to focus on high quality journals. Also good for citation analysis.

PubMed is good for biochemistry topics.

Single publisher journal collections

• ACS Journals
• RSC Journals
• Elsevier's chemistry journals in ScienceDirect and available to Villanova University.
• Springer's chemistry and materials science journals on SpringerLink.  All are available.
• Chemistry Central publishes high quality open access journals.

Books

CRCnetBASE contains every recent book published by CRC except for the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.  Check "Full Access Content Only" to limit your search to material we own.

Villanova has access to every Springer book from 2011 and written in English, including many books on chemistry and materials science.

All of these books, as well as electronic books from other publishers and physical books can be found using our catalog:

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Patent Information

Chemical patent information can be found in both SciFinder Scholar and Reaxys but for more comprehensive patent searching use

US Patent and Trademark Office

European Patent Office

PATENTSCOPE from WIPO

Other Resources

ACS Directory of Graduate Research is the most comprehensive source of information on chemical research and researchers at universities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

PubChem provides information on the biological activity of small molecules.