Research Guides: Chemistry: Find Scholarly Materials in Library Databases

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ChemView This link opens in a new window
Provides information on chemical health and safety data received by EPA and EPA's assessments and regulatory actions for specific chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Nature.com This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, publishing research in all fields of science and technology.
http://salve.libguides.com/nature
PubChem This link opens in a new window
Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. Includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Indexes life sciences, medical, and nursing journals. Look for the “Find @ Salve” button on article-level results pages to check for full-text from Salve's e-journal subscriptions.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=irisrullib
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. It is a subset of PubMed which is limited to those articles where the full-text is directly available via PubMed.
http://salve.libguides.com/pubmed_central
SciFinder This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to research from many scientific disciplines including chemistry and the life sciences including: biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, medicine, and related disciplines, as well as organic and inorganic substance information. This database allows a maximum of 3 simultaneous users.
http://salve.libguides.com/scifinder

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"The CAS REGISTRY database contains records for specific substances identified by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) REGISTRY system, with more than 143 million unique organic and inorganic chemical substances, such as alloys, coordination compounds, minerals, mixtures, polymers and salts, and more than 67 million sequences - more than any other database of its kind."

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Best Bets: Databases for Chemistry Research

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CAS Registry Number