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Chemistry

This guide will help you navigate information sources in chemistry.

Journal Article Databases

To find articles, try the databases listed below. When you find an article you like, look for links that will send you to the full-text of the article. If you have difficulty finding the full-text, check Vassar Journals Collection or the Library Search to see if the Library owns the journal and has the year/volume you need.

1. Discipline-Specific Database for Finding Scholarly Articles

SciFinder (a chemistry-specific scholarly database)
This database searches a wide variety of content pertaining to chemistry including: scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, dissertations, patents, reactions, synthetic preparations, properties, and CAS registry numbers. First time users should click the link below to register for access. Access at Vassar is limited to one searcher at a time, so please try to search efficiently and logoff promptly to allow others to logon.
Registration for SciFinder
You will need to register and set up a password to use SciFinder; access is by password only. You must register at a networked Vassar computer.

2. Multidisciplinary Databases for Finding Scholarly Articles

Web of Science
Database of articles from over 10,000 scholarly journals spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Indexing goes back to 1984. This database provides cited reference searching capability.
The Web of Science “Core Collection” includes the following:
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
Book Citation Index - Science (BCKI-S)
Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BCKI-SSH)
Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Index Chemicus (IC)
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Scopus
Database of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Indexing for many journals begins in 1996 but there is historical coverage for journals published by Elsevier, Springer, and some chemistry and physics society publishers. This database provides cited reference searching capability.
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3. Multidisciplinary Databases for Finding Both Popular and Scholarly Articles

ProQuest Research Library
Database of articles from over 4,500 journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. Subject coverage spans the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The diverse mix of publication types and broad subject scope makes this database a useful starting point.
Academic OneFile
Database of articles from over 14,000 journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Subject coverage spans the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Like ProQuest, the diverse mix of publication types and broad subject scope makes this database another useful starting point.

4. Other Databases to Try

PubMed
Database of scholarly articles relevant to biomedicine and clinical medicine with a considerable amount of material relevant to biochemistry. This database contains citations from 1950 to the present, with some older material.

Scitation
Database of articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by scientific and technical organizations across the fields of physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, and acoustics. Includes the capability of searching SPIN, a database of articles from journals published by the American Institute of Physics and affiliated organizations.
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To export references to RefWorks click Export and select tagged format. Log into RefWorks to import the saved file, setting the source data to CAS SciFinder and the database to CAPlus.
OAlster
OAIster has millions of records harvested from institutional repositories of nearly a thousand institutions including MIT, CalTech, Stanford etc. Use it to find articles, theses, technical reports and other gray literature. Most but not all links go to fulltext or to a research website.

Google Scholar
Web-generated database of articles spanning all disciplines and harvested by Google from the websites of academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, etc.

Microsoft Academic Search
Free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research that provides innovative ways to explore scientific publications, authors, conferences, journals, organizations and keywords.

Journals at Vassar

Vassar Journals Collection
Check to see which journals are owned by Vassar Library, their format (print or electronic), and their coverage dates.
Interlibrary Loan