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Recommended Databases
For research in chemistry and access to conference proceedings, book chapters, and peer reviewed journal articles, we recommend these databases.
- Web of Science - Core CollectionAccess the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Find more detailed information.
- American Chemical Society PublicationsSearch for citations and abstracts, of chemistry and biochemistry, through journals from the American Chemical Society.
- PubMEDDeveloped by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), PubMed is the most comprehensive biomedical research database, and a key resource used by scientists. Find more detailed information.
- SciFinder-nSciFinder-n is a new generation of SciFinder. It is the premiere reference tool for research in chemistry. SciFinder-n can be searched by research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, chemical reaction, and/or author's name. SciFinder-n provides an interface for searching six integrated bibliographic, substance, and reaction databases. In addition to chemistry and biochemistry, it includes coverage in the areas of agricultural sciences, biology and life sciences, engineering sciences, food sciences, geological sciences, material sciences, medical sciences, physics, and polymer science. Find more detailed information.
- ScopusScopus is a source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts who are recognized leaders in their fields. Scopus puts powerful discovery and analytics tools in the hands of researchers, librarians, research managers and funders to promote ideas, people and institutions. It indexes content from 7,000+ publishers and includes 91+ million records, 94,000+ affiliation profiles and 17+ million authors.
While it's not a database, ChemDraw is a valuable tool for chemists and chemistry students as well, which we have access to via Randall Library.
- ChemDrawChemDraw Professional is a tool for chemists and biologists to create chemical drawings for use in ELNs, databases and publications and for querying chemical databases such as SciFinder. UNCW's site license agreement with ChemDraw allows access only to current students, faculty, and staff. You must download and install the Chemdraw software. Find more information.
Helpful Websites
These web resources provide specific information, rather than access to scientific literature.
- Compound InterestCompound Interest is a site that aims to take a closer look at the chemical compounds we come across on a day-to-day basis, explaining them with easy-to-understand graphics created by Andy Brunning, a UK chemistry educator.
- JLab: Periodic Table of ElementsProvides access to basic physical and historical information about the elements including point, density, element history, and crustal and oceanic abundance.
- NIST Chemistry WebBookResource provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.
- Visual Elements Periodic TableAvailable from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Visual Elements Periodic Table provides interactive access to data on the elements; patterns in the periodic table; atomic orbitals; alchemical symbols; downloadable movies, screensavers and soundtracks; e-postcards; and wallcharts, jigsaws and CDs for purchase.
Open Access Repositories
The resources below are freely available databases that may include a variety of material: preprint (draft or preliminary) versions of articles, conference papers and/or posters, book chapters, white papers, and more. These repositories help speed up dissemination and enhance discoverability and access to early-stage scholarship across disciplines.
It is important to note that these materials have likely not been edited or benefited from the pivotal role of peer-review, which validates and improves the quality of final published journal articles.
- Chemistry Research Network (ChemRN)Open access repository run by Elsevier's Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
- RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB)The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is an open access database of 3D structure information for large biological molecules, like proteins, DNA, and RNA.
- Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB)The Worldwide Protein Data Bank provides open access resources including data dictionaries for various small and large molecule types, structural validation and deposition, and a variety of other information about biological molecules collected by its member organizations.
RCSB PDB is a member organization of wwPDB. - Nucleic Acid Database (NDB)The Nucleic Acid Database provides open resources related to the structures and sequences of DNA and RNA molecules.
- EMDataResourceOpen-access database for 3D Electron Microscopy structural data of molecules, particularly biologically relevant molecules like proteins, DNA, RNA.