Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmacology and Herbal Medicinal Science
Key subject collections (databases)
Databases provide searchable collections of articles or papers, reports and other information from academic and scholarly journals and sources, use them to search on a specific topic.
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Key subject collections (databases)
These give bibliographic references and short summaries of individual journal articles and the full text to many of the articles themselves.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowJournals from all subject areas, including science, however access to the current year is not available for many journals.
- American Chemical Society Journals This link opens in a new window★ Browse the A-Z list of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences – full-text access to articles or search using topic keywords. Undergraduate and postgraduate students are recommended to use this.
- British National Formulary (BNF) This link opens in a new window
The BNF is a publication of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. It aims to provide prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with sound up-to-date information about the use of medicines. The BNF provides ready access to key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines.
- Oxford Chemistry Primers (BibliU Platform) This link opens in a new window★ Published by Oxford University Press, the Oxford Chemistry Primers are a series of short texts providing accounts of a range of essential topics in chemistry and chemical engineering. They are written for undergraduate study and are invaluable as a source of material commonly presented in lectures. There are 100+ titles in the series.
- Royal Society Of Chemistry Journals Archive This link opens in a new window★ Access to the full text of journals from 1841-2004 in chemistry and related areas including medicinal drug discovery.
- ScienceDirect Journals Collection This link opens in a new window★ All subject areas of science and medicine and including chemistry, herbal medicinal science, pharmacology and pharmaceutical science. Full text access to most articles from 1997 onwards to most (but not all) journals.
- Wiley Online Library: Journals This link opens in a new window★ All areas of science, including chemistry, herbal medicinal science, pharmacology and pharmaceutical science. Full text access to many (but not all) journals and a few books.
These are comprehensive and international; they give bibliographic references and detailed abstracts or summaries of individual journal articles, but not the articles themselves but they may give links to free articles.
Although a particular database may not contain the full article, the Library often has access to the full article on another database. Go to the Library Search, select E-journal Titles and search by the journal name, not the article title listed on the database record. Once in the journal, type or copy and paste the beginning of the article title into the journal search box.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowInternational database from the US National Library of Medicine of millions records of journal papers in all aspects of life sciences, medicine, health and related subjects.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window★ Essential for undergraduate students researching for projects, MSc, MPhil/PhD and staff undertaking research. Web of Science is an international database which covers world literature from many publishers, in all areas of science.
Note: In WoS, change the ‘All Databases’ tab to ‘Web of ScienceTM Core Collection’.
- BMJ Best Practice This link opens in a new windowBest Practice has been designed for use specifically as a decision-support tool at the point of care. Search for peer-reviewed evidence based clinical information on diseases and medical conditions. Latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion are combined in a single source and presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Provides a second opinion, without the need for checking multiple resources.
- BioMedCentral (BMC) This link opens in a new window290 free quality peer-reviewed journals in Biology, Clinical Medicine and Health.
- Directory Of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new windowFreely available full-text online journals from all disciplines. Searchable and browsable.
- OMICS International700 plus online open access peer reviewed scholarly journals, 3000 plus conferences in all aspects of science including medical, clinical and pharmaceutical subjects.
- PLOS This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed, freely available journals in biosciences and medicine.
- British National Formulary (BNF) This link opens in a new window
The BNF is a publication of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. It aims to provide prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with sound up-to-date information about the use of medicines. The BNF provides ready access to key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines.
- PubChem This link opens in a new windowFree database of information on chemicals, including chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data and more. You can search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. The system is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- ChemSpiderChemSpider is a free chemical structure database owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. It provides fast access to 40 plus million structures, properties and associated information. Search by chemical names such as systematic names, synonyms, trade names, database identifiers, search by chemical structure.
- The National Center for Biotechnology InformationAccess to access to biomedical and genomic information.