LibGuides: Chemistry: Articles

Recommended Index Databases

SciFinder
Search the full Chemical Abstracts database back to 1907.
Requires users to register with a utexas.edu email account.
Web of Science
Search by keywords, authors, and also for papers that cite earlier papers. 1900-present.
Google Scholar
Search engine indexes full text and citations of millions of digital journal articles, patents, preprints, reports, and other scholarly content. If you use/bookmark this institutional link GS will provide links to articles we have access to.
PubMed
Many chemistry-related journals are indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed because of their life science content. PubMed also indexes and links to many post-prints of NIH-funded articles housed in the PubMed Central repository.
MEDLINE (Clarivate)
Articles from 4500 selected biomedical journals are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). MEDLINE is a subset of the larger, more inclusive PubMed. MEDLINE can also be searched within SciFinder.
INSPEC
Indexes many journal and conference publications related to chemical physics, spectroscopy, solid state materials, and physical chemistry.
OSTI.GOV
Index to millions of articles and tech reports from the Department of Energy (DOE), with many full text reports.

Finding Open Copies of Paywalled Articles

If UT doesn't have a subscription or other paid access to a restricted journal, you can look for open versions of a paper. These include preprints, post-publication copies, or peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts -- that have been deposited in open, legal repositories. (This is known as "Green Open Access.") You can also contact the author and ask for a copy.

Google Scholar
In addition to finding the official published version, GS also indexes alternate versions of articles that are available on sites not controlled by the journal itself. Search the article title and these versions should pop right up. Examples include postprints in PubMed Central; preprints, free copies in ResearchGate, etc. (Not all "versions" listed are full text: some are just alternate sources of the bibliographic reference from other databases, e.g. PubMed.)

PubMed
PubMed indexes content posted in PubMed Central, the NIH repository for articles published based on NIH grant funding. Articles are posted in PMC after 12 months embargo and consist of accepted manuscripts and publisher-authorized postprints.

NSF Public Access Repsitory
Official repository of NSF-sponsored research. Articles are available publicly after 12-month embargo.
DOE PAGES
PAGES is an open repository of over 65,000 accepted and published journal articles (author manuscripts) resulting from DOE grant funding, analogous to NIH's PubMed Central.

There are browser add-ons that can automatically perform a search for free versions when you land on a paywalled article:

Unpaywall
Search here or install a free browser plugin that will automatically find free versions across thousands of repositories.
Open Access Button
Search here or get the browser extension to find free versions, and request from authors if necessary.
EndNote Click
This browser plug-in looks for PDF copies (from institutional subscription or open access) of an article you've pulled up in your browser or in an index like Google Scholar, and provides a one-click pop-up access path. A free tool (formerly known as Kopernio) from the Web of Science Group and optimized for integration with EndNote.

If you already have a reference:

Chemistry Reference Resolver
Paste in an ACS-style journal reference (Journal, volume, year, pages) and go straight to the article page. (You may hit a paywall.)
SciFinder - Journal search
Open the "Journal" search form and enter parts of the reference that you know, and it will look for matching records in the CAPLUS database.
CASSI Journal Abbreviations
If you have to translate a mysterious abbreviation for a journal title, look it up in the CAS Source Index.