Comparison of key databases indexing literature
in chemistry
Database |
Years |
Materials indexed |
Full-text ? |
Special features |
Knovel
|
|
books |
Yes |
Searches across contents of over 1600 books; includes productivity
tools such as interactive tables |
Primo |
|
journals, conferences, books, reports and more |
Yes for many |
Searches hundreds of millions of records, from publishers, databases and the library catalog |
Comparison of key databases for finding chemicals
Database |
Special features |
Cambridge Structural
Database |
Bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for organic
molecules and metal-organic compounds |
Inorganic Crystal
Structure Database• |
All inorganic crystal structures, with atomic coordinates,
published since 1913. Entries can be retrieved by chemical identification data,
bibliographic data, and crystallographic parameters. 3D structures with special
viewer |
Knovel |
Searches across contents of over 1600 reference books such as
Lange's Handbook of Chemistry; includes productivity tools such as interactive
tables; Advanced Search allows searching by many different chemical properties |
NIST Chemistry WebBook
|
thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled
by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program |
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