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Chemical Indexes & Databases

Use indexes and databases to locate articles, technical reports, and patents. When a required article citation is found, check the Cameo library catalog to see if Carnegie Mellon owns that journal or conference proceeding. If Carnegie Mellon does not own the item, simply submit a request to Interlibrary Loan and the required article will be made available for pick-up at the Mellon Institute Library.

For a comprehensive list of electronic indexes and databases available at Carnegie Mellon, see Databases by Subject.

• Chemical Abstracts (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1967- (updated weekly).
  Available: SciFinder Scholar
  ChemAbstracts Online. 1967- (updated weekly).
  Available: STN International
  Chemical Abstracts. 1907- (updated semimonthly).
  ENGR&SCI REF-ABS (1907-1998 only)
  MELLON REF-ABS
  Provides coverage of chemical and chemical engineering information. This includes over 8,000 journal titles, plus books, conference proceedings, technical reports, patents and dissertations.
  

  If you want the assistance of a reference librarian, Chemical Abstracts Online using STN International is available in the Engineering and Science Library after 5 p.m. or at the Mellon Institute Library after 5 p.m. by appointment. See a reference librarian or contact sciref@andrew.cmu.edu to make an appointment.
  
  

• EI Compendex. (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1884- (updated monthly).
  Engineering Index. 1884-1992.
  ENGR&SCI REF-ABS
  The world's premiere interdisciplinary engineering database, covering journals, technical reports and conferences.

• INSPEC. (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1969- (updated weekly).
  Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology.

• NTIS (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1964 - (updated monthly).
  Available: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
  The NTIS database is the preeminent, official resource for government sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information.

• Web of Science (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1945 - (updated weekly).
  Science Citation Index. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1961-1999.
  ENGR&SCI REF-ABS
  A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts covering the literature of the sciences, social sciences and the arts & humanities. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. Use Science Citation Index to identify which authors have used a particular article as a footnote or reference.