To browse the full list of databases to which the University subscribes, search our
Library Databases A-Z.
To browse all databases related to Chemistry, search our Chemistry Databases A-Z.
For databases by subject area or speciality, please consult the rest of this Libguide page.
Databases are the best way of finding peer-reviewed articles, scholarly books, conferences, theses and other information on your topic. Some databases enable you to search across disciplines while others are tailored to help researchers in your specific subject.
Full text access to 95 journal publications of the American Chemical Society.
Chem dex is an innovative chemical index for synthetic organic chemistry. Explore hundreds of chemical reactions, plan your synthesis, access product recommendations and key literature references.
ChemSpider, part of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 120 million structures, along with properties and associated information. It aggregates structures, spectra, properties, suppliers, syntheses, and other information into a single searchable repository with links back to original sources.
Springer Nature Link, also known as Springer Link, is an integrated database of all journals and books published by Springer in all areas of science. Springer Nature Link offers abstract searching of more than 1250 journals, including those contained within the BioMed Science and Springer Open collections. Full text is available for journals to which the University of Warwick subscribes.
Physical Sciences Data-Science Service (PSDS)
Physical Sciences Data-Science Service (PSDS), formerly known as the National Chemical Database Service (NCDS), is a National Research Facility which brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields.
Click here for Single Sign On Institutional Login. Requires creation of account with UK academic institution email.
Oxford Chemistry Trove contains the content of over 100 chemistry textbooks and ebooks. All Chemistry Trove books are also available in the library catalogue through Library Search.
Tutorials and guides for Oxford Chemistry Trove can be accessed on the Oxford Science Trove User Guides webpage.
Reaxys is a database of chemicals and patents. It includes data on organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry and is searchable by structures, reactions, properties, texts, and authors.
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) publishes 58 peer-reviewed journals that cover the core chemical sciences including related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine, and physics. This platform contains full text of journal articles in continuous publication by the RSC.
This e-journal platform from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) allows the searching of full-text articles across the entire range of the RSC's open access and hybrid journals.
The Wiley Online Library e-book and e-journal collection is a resource for quality content from across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical, and professional endeavours.
Science Direct is a multidisciplinary database with access to over 23 million full-text articles from more than 3000 peer-reviewed journals, as well as more than 48,000 books from over 50 imprints. Covered subjects include biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, chemistry, clinical medicine, engineering, and veterinary medicine.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.
Springer Materials provides data and advanced functionalities to support research in materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering, and other related fields, covering over 290,000 materials and over 3,000 physical and chemical properties.
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary platform indexing leading scholarly literature from several databases of peer-reviewed journals across the sciences and other disciplines. The platform includes research tools for advanced searching, citation reports, and bibliometrics, including Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
The University of Warwick's open access content repository, containing journal articles, Warwick doctoral dissertations, books, conference items, working papers, datasets, and more.
British Standards Online (BSOL) provides details of over 97,000 current, draft and withdrawn standards from the UK's national standards body, the British Standards Institute (BSI). Many standards, including adopted European and international standards, are available in full text.
Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool
A free resource for looking up or confirming publication titles and abbreviations, as used in the RSC referencing style. Includes serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.
Espacenet (European Patent Office)
The European Patent Office's Espacenet provides detailed searching of EPO, PC, US and other patent applications. Some older patents may be searchable only by patent number. Full text of patents and applications is available as PDF files.
Nexis Uni contains full-text access to newspapers and current affairs publications from across the world, a well as UK national and local newspapers.
