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Search engine specifically for scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and technical reports.
A search & retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data, & chemical reactions. Learn more about this database.
A free resource providing access to biomedical & life sciences literature. Contains millions of citations & abstracts, but does not include full-text articles. However, links to the full-text are often present from other sources, such UD subscribed titles, publisher websites, or PubMed Central.
A search & retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data, & chemical reactions. Learn more about this database.
NOTE: SciFinder and Reaxys are complementary resources, and although there is some overlap the two are quite different in their respective literature coverage, and the ways they register compounds and index reactions. It's advisable to consult both databases for the most complete coverage of compounds, reactions, and properties.
A search & retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data, & chemical reactions. Learn more about this database.
NOTE: SciFinder and Reaxys are complementary resources, and although there is some overlap the two are quite different in their respective literature coverage, and the ways they register compounds and index reactions. It's advisable to consult both databases for the most complete coverage of compounds, reactions, and properties.
Step One: Choose a Database
Databases serve as indexes to magazines and journals. Some databases such as Academic OneFile and Web of Science cover general and multidisciplinary topics; others such as SciFinder and PubMed are specialized and cover one subject area in great depth. This page list databases most useful for chemists and biochemists.
If you already know the name of the database you would like to search, you can get to it directly by searching for its name on the Library databases page.
Step Two: Search for Articles within the Database
Identify important search terms and concepts. Make a list of key search terms that relate to your topic. PubMed has a thesaurus within the database which will help you identify related and synonymous terms.
Enter search terms and combine them for more effective searching. While databases vary, most of them allow you to use Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) to combine terms. Examples:
Gray (or grey*) Literature generally refers to multiple document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and organization in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing, i.e., where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body.
A few examples are newsletters, technical notes, working papers, white papers, patents, reports, conference proceedings, doctoral theses/dissertations.
To learn more about the topic, consult the website of GreyNet International (https://www.greynet.org/). See also the Gray Literature research guide from California State University, Long Beach.
*Is it "gray" or "grey" literature? In America, the spelling is grAy, while in England the spelling is grEy. [From https://www.greyorgray.com/].