Information Resources for Biochemistry

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• Biosis Previews
  • Online version of Biological Abstracts® and Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings). References and abstracts of the literature from all areas of biology, including biochemical, cellular, molecular, ecological and environmental. 1969 - present.
• SciFinder Scholar (Full Access)
  • Chemical Abstracts and Registry File online from 1907. The premier database for searching chemicals and chemistry-related issues. (UNR NetID required)
• PubMed - Medline
  • Index to 4,800+ journals in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
• Science Citation Index
  • Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 5,700 journals, from 1965- present
    Save citations to EndNote Web — recorded training sessions are available.
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
  • Interdisciplinary coverage of journal articles and documents in the environmental sciences. 1981- present.
• UniProt: The Universal Protein Resource
  • Comprehensive catalog of information on proteins. UniProt is a central repository of protein sequence and function that joins information contained in Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, and PIR.

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• Water Resources Abstracts
  • Abstracts of journal articles, books, & other reports pertaining to water resources. 1967- present.
• TOXLINE
  • An index to articles on all aspects of toxicity. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it covers the most recent five years of articles, books, papers, and reports.
• Zoological Record
  • Index to zoological literature from biological journals published worldwide. 1864 - present.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.

Reference Sources Online

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
  • The most comprehensive source for data and constants in physics and chemistry. Searchable by names, properties, and sections.
• Properties of Inorganic Compounds
  • Numerical values for physical, thermal, electrical, thermodynamic property and ultraviolet data for over 5,500 inorganic compounds. (UNR NetID required)
• Properties of Organic Compounds
  • Physical property and spectral data for more than 27,500 organic compounds. Searchable by many properties. (UNR NetID required)
• Dictionary of Organic Compounds and Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
  • Full content of the classic reference sets. From CHEMNetBase.
• Merck Index Online
  • Find chemical compounds searchable by names, properties and keywords. (UNR NetID required)
• CASSI Online
  • Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. All the journals indexed in Chemical Abstracts since 1907. Search by abbreviated title or other information. (UNR NetID required)