Charles E.
White Memorial Chemistry Library

Chemistry Databases

Access through Research Port

Direct access from workstations on campus:

• SciFinder Scholar is published by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). With SciFinder, you can access current high-quality scientific information in chemistry and related sciences.

  Content at a Glance: searching MEDLINE and Chemical Abstracts (CAPLUS) individually or at the same time; more than 15 million reactions; more than 1 billion predicted property values; more than 2 million experimental properties; the CAS REGISTRY database is updated daily; patent records from the major patent offices are available online within 2 days of the patents' issuance; sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases, which are indexed and linked to scientific journal and patent literature. To use the Web version of SFS, users must first create an account using their @umd.edu email address. SFS can also be accessed through a software program installed on all public computers in the Chemistry Library. The software can also be installed on personal and office computers.

  UM has a license for a limited number of simultaneous users for SFS; so, if you are denied access to it at a certain time, it means that all "seats" are being used at that time, and you would need to try to access it at another time.

  More information about SFS is available from CAS.

  Contact Svetla Baykoucheva at sbaykouc[at]umd.edu or at 301.405.9080 with questions regarding SFS.

• Directory of Graduate Research is a database that provides information about chemical research and researchers at universities located in the United States and Canada. Listings for faculty members include contact and biographical information and bibliographic citations for articles published in the last two years; published every two years. Publisher: American Chemical Society.

• DiscoveryGate from Elsevier MDL provides access to CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin, MDL® Available Chemicals Directory, MDL® Drug Data Report, and MDL® Toxicity, authoritative reference works, and links to over 20,000 journal titles. Follow the Instructions on how to access DiscoveryGate from a UM computer terminal. Crossfire Beilstein is a comprehensive searchable source of structures, chemical and physical properties, and citations for organic compounds. Data are drawn from the Beilstein Handbook, Basic Series to Supplement IV, which cover the literature from 1779-1959. Additional data have been added from the primary literature since 1960. Crossfire Gmelin is a comprehensive searchable source of structures, chemical and physical properties, and citations for inorganic and organometallic substances. Contains data from the original Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (1772-1975). It includes excerpts from top scientific journals abstracted since 1975. It can be accessed through DiscoveryGate. More information about DiscoveryGate is available from the following article:

  Baykoucheva, S. 2007. A New Era in Chemical Information: PubChem, DiscoveryGate, and Chemistry Central. ONLINE 31(5), 17-20.

• Web of Science indexes over 17,000 journals; can be used to find articles and who has cited them; provides cited reference searching; covers 50 disciplines from 1995 to present; updated weekly. Publisher: Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online provides coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds needed by chemists, physicists, and engineers. Edition: 89th. Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

• The Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects Database (DOSE) is a source of all relevant data for the accurate assessment of the risks associated with the use of chemicals of environmental concern. The information in DOSE is fully referenced and is presented in concise, easy-to-read summaries. Data include physical properties, occupational exposure limits, mammalian and avian toxicity, genotoxicity, ecotoxicity, environmental fate, plus regulatory requirements including risk and safety phrases. Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry.