Chemistry: Databases and Off-Campus Access
Key Databases for Chemistry
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new windowFormerly SciFinder Scholar. SciFinder-n is the most comprehensive database for coverage of chemistry and chemical engineering. It has the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. It provides integrated access to CAPlus, CAS registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCATS, which are produced by Chemical Abstracts Service; and to MEDLINE, which is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.. Requires registration - click on more...below
- Registration for SciFinder ScholarUse this link to set up an account with SciFinder Scholar.
- Reaxys This link opens in a new windoworganic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry database.It is based on the CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases, and covers over 3,800 journals and patents from 1771 to date
- Cambridge Structural Database This link opens in a new windowThe online version of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). A repository for structural data of organic, metal-organic and organometallic molecules
- ChemSpider This link opens in a new window
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ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 25 million structures, properties and associated information. Provided by the RSC.
- PSDS - Physical sciences data-science serviceThe Cambridge Structural Database (CSD); DETHERM; Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD); Chemical Availability Search (ChASe) and Propersea (Property Prediction)
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowa large multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Covers over 19,000 journal titles.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science Core Collection includes the Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes, Conference Proceedings Citation Index for Science, Social Sciences & Humanities, Current Chemical Reactions and Index Chemicus.
- Library search This link opens in a new windowa single access point to many of the Library's e-resources - databases, e-journals, e-books and print books.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowFree database consisting of references to multidisciplinary articles, theses, books and abstracts. See https://libanswers.st-andrews.ac.uk/faq/93370 for information on how to set up your preferences to link to library journal holdings.
Off-campus access
There are two ways of accessing library resources off-campus. The simplest is to use your University login, referred to on websites as your Institutional or Shibboleth login.
It is important to note that just because a website has an institutional login it does not mean that we have access to the journal. You need to search the Library collections or our E-journals database to check that we have a subscription to the journal and that it covers the year or volume that you are looking for.
See our Remote Access to Online Resources page for more information and detailed help.
Get lean library for easier access to eresources
Ever been stuck behind a paywall for a journal article, newspaper article, or ebook?
Lean Library is a browser add-on that makes it easier to get access to these resources. Land on a webpage where you can't access a resource and Lean Library can give you a link directing you to the full-text version available through the Library subscription, or an open-access version. It saves you time looking for a login button or having to go back to Library Search to look up a title.
You can install the Lean Library browser add-on in most browser download.leanlibrary.com/
More information about Lean Library can be found in our guide libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk/lean
Inter Library Loans
Any material that is not available online through the University we can get hold of for you through our InterLibrary Loans services. For further information see our ILL page, Journals can be sent to you by email, books will have to be picked up from the Main Library.