Skip to Main Content

A Guide to Chemistry Research

What's an article database?

An article database allows you to search for articles on a particular topic.

Article databases differ by:

Subjects included:
Some databases index articles from a specific discipline, such as forestry or medicine, while other databases index articles from many different disciplines.
ankylosaur clip art image
Document & publication type:
Some databases focus on indexing one type of document, such as scholarly research articles or popular news articles. Other databases index a mix of publications types.
newspaper icon  
Dates included:
Some databases index articles published several hundred years ago up to the present, while others only index recently published articles.

*Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com or openclipart.org)

Start your search in a general chemistry database

Start your search in a general chemistry database, then try a few more databases from the lists below that suit your topic.

Multidisciplinary databases

Broaden your perspective -- try databases with wider subject coverage:

Biomedical and molecular biology databases

Geology, environmental science, physics, and engineering databases

Economics & education

Consider an alternative perspective on your topic:

Browse chemistry journals by title

Interested in browsing an entire journal, rather than searching for articles in a database? Check out the journal titles below.