Chemical Information Resources

Chemistry & related Electronic Journals

Open Access Publishing
Oxford University e-Journals - the university's A-Z list of e-journals in all subjects
Journal Alerting Services - for Tables of Contents and other alerting services
List of proposals for new electronic journal subscriptions
ScienceDirect Postdoc free access program: provides unlimited complimentary access to all Elsevier's journals and books on ScienceDirect for up to 6 months for those who completed a PhD/DPhil within the past 5 years, and whose Oxford graduate status or postdoc research contract expires before 31st August 2013

SciFinder:
- a new version of SciFinder has been released, see introductory preview video and Quick Tour tutorial
- the new SciFinder does not support Internet Explorer 6; see the recommended browser list in SciFinder Systems Requirements
- an overview of SciFinder and how it can help you with your research
- Experimental procedures for chemical reactions from Thieme journals SYNLETT and SYNTHESIS from 1969 to the present will soon be available in SciFinder
- For details of other recent additions and improvements see What's New in SciFinder
New Drug information resources - the university now has subscriptions to the following:
- Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference - contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides.
- Stockley’s Drug Interactions - In-depth information about drug-drug, drug-food and drug-herb interactions.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) updated: 2012 data now available

National Chemical Database Service - now provided by RSC; the Chemical Database Service previously available from Daresbury Laboratory has now closed

Chemical Abstracts: about SciFinder - Register for web version (WebLearn page) - Login to SciFinder web
Web of Knowledge - about Web of Knowledge - direct link to search service
Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Database - about Reaxys - direct link to Reaxys
National Chemical Database Service (RSC)
ChemSpider - free structure/property database from RSC, includes ChemSpider SyntheticPages
Off-site access to Oxford University's subscription Databases and Electronic Journals
Passwords for accessing various chemical databases
Selected Internet Resources
EndNote: site licence agreement and how to import references into EndNote from various databases
Scopus

SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Online. Use SOLO to search Oxford University's online library catalogue:

Oxford Research Archive (ORA)
21st century plans for Bodleian Library
Oxford eResources blog: for news about electronic information resources, changes to the OU eJournals and OxLIP+ systems as well as other items of interest for anyone using the internet. Eg.:
- Copyright in electronic journals; a quick guide to what you may and may not copy
- Info on setting Google Scholar to display full text links for Oxford subscriptions
- Making the most of your Google search: tips on using Google’s Advanced Search
- RSS feeds

Department of Chemistry - Chemistry Information Sources