SciFinder Scholar - use for comprehensive searches, patent searches, structure searches, and older literature. Client must be downloaded and installed, use from on-campus only. Please be considerate of others - use is limited to 4 simultaneous users. Available on all public workstations in the Science Library.

Beilstein - Organic chemistry database indexes three primary data domains: substances, reactions and literature. Contains structural information including chemical, physical and bioactivity data; preparation of substances; and literature citations, titles and abstracts. Client must be downloaded and installed, use from on-campus only. Available on all public workstations in the Science Library.

Dissertation Abstracts - Ph. D. dissertations and selected masters theses accepted in the US.
Dissertations Full-text - University of Mississippi dissertations online, 1997-

Google Scholar - is set up to show you links to UM resources.

Cambridge Crystallographic Database - Available on workstaion Sci12 in the Science Library. Contact Dr. Keith Hollis for infomation on acquiring the database for your lab.

Web of Science - subject, author, and cited reference searching.

WorldWideScience Alliance - search diverse scientific resources and knowledge from nations around the world.

Search for Patents

Free Patents Online -
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -
European Patents Office -
LexisNexis Academic - click the tab for "Legal" to search for patents
IPO Intellectual Property Digital Library -

Search for Chemical Information

ChemFinder - provides chemical structures, physical properties, and hyperlinks.
ChemID - NLM database of over 380,000 chemicals, synonyms, structures, regulatory list information, and links to other databases.
Chemspider - Provides access to almost 21.5 million unique chemical entities
sourced from over 200 different data sources and integration to a
multitude of other online services,
Material Safety Data Sheets - safety information
NIST Virtual Library: Chemistry - includes chemical characterization of materials, process metrology, chemical and biochemical sensing, nanotechnology, healthcare measurements, environmental measurements, physical property data, chemical and biochemical data, bio-molecules and materials, DNA technologies, and international measurement standards.
PubChem - provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. Organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez
information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.
Spectral Database for Organic Compounds -

These periodic tables contain tremendous amounts of and links to information about the elements and their compounds:
American Elements -
WebElements : Periodic Table -
Wikipedia Periodic Table -