Chemistry: Home
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- ReaxysReaxys is a reference source on chemical properties, compounds, and reactions supporting research in organic and inorganic chemistry.
- Reaxys Support CenterThis page contains a number of tutorials on using Reaxys. You can also navigate to a Training page that provides information such as the Reaxys Reference Guide and how to create structure drawings.
- SciFinder-nA database provided by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), full of chemical and bibliographic information that covers many scientific and biomedical fields, with an emphasis on chemistry.
- SciFinder-n Training and TutorialsThese on-demand SciFinder-n training resources are short, targeted materials, organized by search type.
- ScopusScopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
- National Institute of Standards and TechnologyThe National Institute of Standards and Technology is a division of the United States Department of Commerce. NIST has the responsibility to develop, maintain, and disseminate the official standards for a wide range of quantities, including length, mass, force and shock, acceleration, time and frequency, electricity, temperature, humidity, pressure and vacuum, liquid and gas flow, and electromagnetic, optical, acoustic, and ionizing radiation.
- KnovelA library of full-text content relating to all fields of engineering, science, and industrial safety.
Then try any of the following:
- PubChemA chemistry database with chemicals information on over 112 million compounds and 297 million substances, and over 34 million publications and 42 million patents.
- Inspec ArchiveOver 870,000 searchable records that cover 70 years of international scientific literature in physics, electrical engineering, and computer science from 1898-1968.
- PubMedMore than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and eBooks, with some full-text linked.
- Google ScholarWith an OSU login, the Google Scholar interface allows users to search library holdings and peer-reviewed articles.
Other resources:
- Cambridge Structural DatabaseThe Cambridge Structural Database is compiled and distributed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC). The database provides access to structural chemistry data. Please see the following update from Cambridge Structural Database to update to the new 2023 version of CSD.
- ChemDrawChemDraw is a scientific productivity suite designed for anyone related to the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology. Users can draw chemical structures and reactions, as well as biological objects and pathways, and organize and search through multiple documents and collections of molecules. See instructions in the More Info section below for access.
- ChemSpiderChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 120 million structures, along with properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from hundreds of high quality data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search.
- Crystallography Open DatabaseOpen-access collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals, excluding biopolymers
- Open Reaction DatabaseThe Open Reaction Database (ORD) is an open-access schema and infrastructure for structuring and sharing organic reaction data, including a centralized data repository. The ORD schema supports conventional and emerging technologies, from benchtop reactions to automated high-throughput experiments and flow chemistry. Our vision is that a consistent data representation and infrastructure to support data sharing will enable downstream applications that will greatly improve the state of the art with respect to computer-aided synthesis planning, reaction prediction, and other predictive chemistry tasks.
- ZINCZINC is a free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 230 million purchasable compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats. ZINC also contains over 750 million purchasable compounds you can search for analogs in under a minute.
