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Finding Articles
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SciFinder-n Registration
Register for SciFinder-n using your UIC email address.
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Reaxys
Reaxys is a feature-rich chemoinformatics solution. It combines more than one billion chemical data points with AI to support drug discovery, chemical and related disciplines R&D, and academic innovation. Reaxys provides quick access to pertinent information and insights on chemical literature, patents, substances, reactions, and bioactivity, along with an award-winning retrosynthesis tool.
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Web of Science
Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as published proceedings for over 12,000 conferences per year, and over 50,000 scholarly books. Allows searching for articles in the database that have cited a particular work, as well as perform other analytics.
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Google Scholar
Searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chemical Properties Data
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ReaxysIf you search for a substance it will give you a wide variety of physical data, overlapping with the data you get from SciFinder Scholar. If you can't find the physical data you are looking for in one of these tools, it is worth it to try to search for this data using the other tools.