Chemistry Resources
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
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To use SciFinder, you *must register* and provide your UD email. Registration details and additional information.
Comprehensive database for the chemical literature. Contains other scientific disciplines as well.
SciFinder Training Materials include videos and tutorials in the following areas:
- Structure Searching
- Reaction Searching
- Reference Searching
- Polymer Searching
- Patent Searching
- General Topics
- Reaxys This link opens in a new window
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A search & retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data, & chemical reactions. Learn more about this database.
Visit the Reaxys Support Center
- Reaxys Quick Start Guide (updated Sept. 2021)This document is designed to help users navigate the interface and get started with searching, viewing and filtering results, and using alerts and other personalized features.
- Science of Synthesis This link opens in a new windowProvides a critical review of the synthetic methodology developed field of organic & organometallic chemistry. (Coverage: early 1800s --)
Science of Synthesis Training & Support site provides a Quick Start Guide and Video Tutorials.
Further information on SoS from Thieme Chemistry
Multidisciplinary databases
- Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window
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A collection of databases that can be searched individually or in various combinations. WoS indexs the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, & humanities, as published in journals, conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, & workshops across the globe.
Training Resources include videos, documents, webinars, self-guided learning to help you make the most of Web of Science.
- Scopus This link opens in a new window
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A citation & abstracting database covering thousands of active titles, primarily peer-reviewed journals. Also includes eBooks, major reference works & graduate level textbooks. Emphasis on social sciences, arts & humanities, but also includes science, technology & medicine. Includes thousands of Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, and patents. (Coverage: Primarily 1970-present. Some pre-1970 records going back to 1788)
See the Scopus: Access and use Support Center > Training page for articles and tutorials.