Research Guides: Chemistry: 1. Finding articles

Finding articles

Note: In most of these databases, click on the FindText button to see if the article is available online or in print via the UO Libraries, and if not, you can request it from another library via I nterlibrary Loan. Step by step directions coming.

SciFinder
Research tool for information on chemical and chemistry-related topics. You can search substances, Markush and reaction information, patents, documents, experimental and predicted properties, spectra and much more. Searches can be made on research topic, chemical structure, chemical name or structure, SMILES or InChI string, author or company name and many other options. SciFinder is available only to current UO students, faculty, and staff.

For more Scifinder information: see the SciFinder support and training pages

Web of Science
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Provides access to both the Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Index. The database can be searched by words in article titles and abstracts, by author, by journal, and to look for cited references.
Google Scholar
Covers scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Access Google Scholar items from off-campus.
ChemSpider
Chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 29 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
IEEE Xplore digital library
IEEE publications, including transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards in electrical engineering, computer science, physics, bioengineering, aerospace, and related fields.
Natural Product Updates
A literature updating service keeping you current with recent developments in natural products chemistry. Covering a wide range of primary sources, Natural Product Updates includes the most important natural product articles published in the recent scientific literature, which are searchable by topic, natural source, biological activity and structure typ
Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.

If you are looking for something specific (a reference)

Chemistry Reference Resolver
Quickly gets you to the publisher's webpage that may contain the article you are looking for.

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How it works:
You type-in the reference
Punctuation and case is generally ignored
The site will try to take you to the article.
Vaguely defined "lazy citations", such as "perkin1 2002 2733" will work.
Several browser extensions are available.
UnPayWall
Link system to legally published research papers. Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
kopernio
On-campus access: Kopernio automatically detects your library subscriptions when you are on campus based on your IP address. You don't need to do anything.
Off-campus access: If your library supports off-campus access to subscriptions via a proxy, Kopernio can connect to this. You'll need to log in to your library the first time you use Kopernio off-campus.
FindText
Use this icon to get to our holdings.
Install UO VPN
Installing this software will allow you to access Library resources from off-campus with fewer login issues.