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We are pleased to provide direct online access to the American Chemical Society Journals (Current NU Only).

For all other ejournals, search the Ejournal Finder.

For a list of databases to search the chemical literature, see Search for articles by topic.

These are websites and free resources outside of Northeastern University. Recommended databases for a chemistry literature search can be found under the "Finding Books and Articles" tab.

• ChemFinder
  This interactive site allows searching by chemical name, drug name, formula, moledular weight, CAS registry number, or structure.
• Chemical Scorecard
  from the Environmental Defense Fund
  Contains information about pollutants, including maps of Toxic Release Inventory information, regulations, and discussion forums.
  
• ChemPuter
  An interactive calculator for chemistry
• Ei Village: Compendex and Inspec (Current NU Only)
  Search Compendex and Inspec at the same time, including citations from the scientific and technical engineering literature plus physics, electrical engineering, computer science, nanotechnology, information theory and more. Journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, reports. Patents prior to 1976 only.
• Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry
  
• Sheffield Chemdex
  a huge library of web sites, including links to electronic books and journals, databases, universities, companies, and research institutes, software information, and more.

Welcome to the NU Libraries guide to resources in Chemistry!

Use this page as a starting point for your research. 

The university subscribes to thousands of full text ejournals and over 100 databases. Most online resources are available to NU affiliates from on and off campus. Full text ejournals to which NU subscribes are linkable from SciFinder Scholar via ChemPort. 

Suggestion: To do a comprehensive literature search in chemistry, start by searching SciFinder Scholar. To do a quick search, begin by searching or browsing the full text collection of American Chemical Society Journals.

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Shortcuts to our collections:

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