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Journals

Nature Chemistry is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research in all areas of chemistry. All editorial decisions are made by a team of full-time professional editors. Double-blind peer-review is offered.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Certain content is open access. Email Emma Schmidtke at eschmidtke@western.edu for help finding any non-open access article.

PLoS One

The Public Library of Science is an open access, high impact journal. It is single-blind peer review (reviewers remain anonymous unless they choose to identify themselves, but the reviewed manuscript is unidentified).

General Databases

ChemRxiv

An open preprint server for Chemistry, managed by ACS. More details on the “What You Need to Know” page.

ChemSpider

A free database of chemistry structures and their associated information. To draw and search on a structure or substructure, click “Structure search,” then click the pencil inside the diagram, then select “Draw or Edit”

Science.gov

Searches databases and websites from US federal government agencies with a focus on science information, including research and development results

ScienceOpen

A freely-accessible research network that aggregates open-access articles from a variety of sources.

iScienceSearch

The Internet search engine for chemists and biologists; a federated search service that retrieves chemical compound information from a wide variety of databases.

PubChem

PubChem Structure Search allows the PubChem Compound Database to be to be queried by chemical structure or chemical structure pattern. The PubChem Sketcher allows a query to be drawn manually. Users may also specify the structural query input by PubChem Compound Identifier (CID) , SMILES , SMARTS , InChI , Molecular Formula , or by upload of a supported structure file format.

Physical Chemistry

CCCBDB: Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark Database (NIST)

Experimental and computed (quantum mechanics) thermochemical data for a selected set of gas-phase atoms and small molecules. Tools for comparing experimental and computational ideal-gas thermochemical properties

ThermoLit

NIST Literature Report Builder for Thermophysical and Thermochemical Property Measurements

Specific Databases

Crystallography Open Database

Open-access collection of crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals, excluding biopolymers

Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer

May be easier than SciFinder for “common” compounds of significant environmental, toxicological or commercial interest

Spectral Database for Organic Compounds

An integrated spectral database system for organic compounds, which includes EI-MS, FT-IR, NMR, 13C NMR, laser Raman, and ESR spectra.

Springer Nature Experiments

Open-access database that cross-searches Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, Springer Protocols and the Protocol Exchange.
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Chemical Information Sources

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Biochemistry

BindingDB

Database of measured binding affinities, focusing chiefly on the interactions of protein considered to be drug-targets with small, drug-like molecules

BRENDA : the comprehensive enzyme information system

BRENDA YouTube Channel

Short videos showing how to use the BRENDA Enzyme Information System. If new to BRENDA, start with “BRENDA tutorial - Enzyme Search”

C hEMBL

Database of bioactive drug-like small molecules; it contains 2-D structures, calculated properties and abstracted bioactivities

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI)

Dictionary of molecular entities focused on ‘small’ chemical compounds

Toxicology

TOXNET

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

CompTox Chemistry Dashboard (EPA)

A compilation of toxicological information sourced from many sites, databases and other sources (see the site’s “About/Disclaimer” for aims and limitations of the database)

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