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Access  to the full text of ACS journal publications from the date of first publication to the present. Each journal also provides a RSS feed for each issue's contents.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: American Chemical Society

Chemical References

Use the resources below for information about chemical names, structures, and properties. These resources can be searched by chemical name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula or weight, InChIKey, or by structure.

  • ChemBioFinder
    A chemistry and biology index to nearly 2 million compounds. Entries typically include links to additional information from other websites. (Free registration required.)
  • ChemIDplus
    Detailed information on over 400,000 chemicals, including links to relevant journal citations in PubMed MEDLINE.
  • ChemSpider
    A chemical structure database providing fast access to over 34 million structures, properties, and associated information. (Also see SyntheticPages for chemical reactions.)
  • PubChem
    PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public.
  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Varies

PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public. PubChem contains information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and much more. PubChem's data comes from government agencies, chemical vendors, journal publishers, and other sources.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Vendor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine

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CAS SciFindern is the latest scientific information solution from the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder, CAS SciFindern includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more in an easy-to-use interface.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: 1
  • Vendor: American Chemical Society
  • Publisher: American Chemical Society

Today's Science presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, Today’s Science covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Infobase Learning

WebCSD offers fast searching of the Cambridge Structural Database. Search facilities include 2D substructure, molecular similarity, text/numeric and reduced cell searching. Text, chemical diagrams, and 3D structural information can all be studied in the results browser using entry summaries and an embedded three-dimensional viewer. Watch this video to learn how to use WebCSD.

 

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  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: Unlimited
  • Vendor: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
  • Publisher: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of ebooks covering a wide array of academic subjects and features ebooks from leading publishers and university presses. All ebooks in this collection have unlimited user access.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Academic Search Premier replaced Academic Search Complete on 1/1/2024. More info …

Academic Search Premier provides fast access to articles from thousands of full-text journals, magazines, and newspapers across a wide range of topics, including the STEM disciplines, healthcare, education, social sciences, and the humanities. Along with hundreds of full-text periodicals, ASP has indexes and abstracts for thousands of articles which can be requested via interlibrary loan.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Academic Video Online is a streaming video collection containing thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, business, education, healthcare, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. The Academic Video Online collection can be browsed or searched by discipline.

AVO was previously named VAST: Academic Video Online.

Formerly known as VAST: Academic Video Online.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Alexander Street Press

Each year, Annual Reviews reviews the most significant primary research to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Area of coverage include biomedicine (including pharmacy), biology, chemistry, and the social sciences.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Annual Reviews

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals. Articles on bioRxiv are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: bioRxiv
  • Publisher: bioRxiv

BIOSIS Previews abstracts and indexes information in biology, biochemistry, and the life sciences from more than 5,500 sources around the world, including journal articles, meeting and conference reports, books, and patents.

BIOSIS Previews is now part of Web of Knowledge, which also incorporates Zoological Record.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Publisher: Thomson Reuters

As one of the world's largest repositories of U.S. Government-sponsored research results, NTRL offers fast and easy access to more than 2.2 million titles, with links to over 700,000 digitized full-text technical reports. (Note: You must register to view digitized NTRL reports. Registration is free.)

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: U.S. Dept. of Commerce
  • Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Oxford Reference contains titles from the Oxford Companion series, as well as the following:

  • 130+ subject dictionaries and the Oxford World Encyclopedia
  • English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian
  • Timelines linking over 2,000 key events in 20th-century history
  • 12,000 images and 500+ color maps
  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Oxford

Google Patents indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA), Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), and China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Google

R2 Digital Library hosts a selection of biomedical ebooks for pharmacy, nursing, and other health sciences. R2 offers ebooks from many leading biomedical publishers, including the American Nurses Association, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. Watch this 2-minute tutorial to get started using R2.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: Unlimited
  • Vendor: Rittenhouse
  • Publisher: Rittenhouse

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