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Article Databases - Chemistry

• SciFinder

  Coverage: Index Only
  You must create an account using your @umbc.edu email address to use SciFinder.
  SciFinder is a research discovery tool which provides access to research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and more. Includes peer-reviewed articles, patents, chemical structures, chemical properties, chemical reactions, and much more. NOTE: Use of SciFinder Scholar is limited to current UMBC students, faculty, and staff ONLY.

• Reaxys

  Coverage: Index Only
  Reaxys is a web-based interface for three chemical information databases: CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin, and Patent Chemistry Database (PCD). It provides quality, authoritative information in organic, inorganic and organometalic chemistry. Reaxys includes property data, preparation and reaction data, structure information, and much more.

• Medline (EBSCO)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  MEDLINE provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

• PubMed (Free Medline)

  Coverage: Index Only
  PubMed comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Includes peer-reviewed articles, case reports, clinical trials, and much more. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Article Databases - Toxicology

• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications.

• Toxicology Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials, more. A subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

• Toxline (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This version does not contain information from CAS, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.

Article Databases - Multidisciplinary

• Web of Knowledge

  Coverage: Index Only
  Multidisciplinary database covering the Arts & Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Indexes over 8,000 high impact research journals, many of them peer-reviewed, and provides access to cited and citing references. Additional searchable resources on the Web of Knowledge homepage through the "Additional Resources" tab.
  
  EndNote Web citation management software also available through Web of Knowledge

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.

Article Databases - Patents

• USPTO Web Patent Database

  Full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images every US patent issued since 1790. Note: Patents issued between 1790 and 1976 are searchable only by patent number and current US classifications. Use patent fetcher to convert tiff files to pdf.

• esp@cenet (European Patent Office)

  Searchable databases provided by the European Patent Office including: Patent Abstracts of Japan, European Patents (EP), and The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Includes English translations of patent descriptions.

Article Databases - Electronic Journal Collections

• ACS Electronic Journals

  Coverage: Full Text
  Search all 35 peer-reviewed journals and other publications of the American Chemical Society. Journals cover 7 core chemistry categories plus 8 additional categories. Topics: chemistry, biochemistry, chemical neuroscience, industrial & engineering chemistry, physical chemistry, food chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.

• Royal Society of Chemistry E-Journals

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Search all journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Full-text is available only for journals subscribed to by UMBC.

• BioOne (CSA)

  Coverage: Full Text
  Over 150 high-impact, peer-reviewed bioscience research journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.

• ECO- Electronic Collections Online (OCLC)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexing and abstracting of articles from over 5,000 journals published since 1995. Focused searching can be done by subject or publisher collection.