The University of Bristol Library subscribes to a huge number of journals (also called serials) electronically.
If you have a specific journal in mind search by the title using the ejournals A-Z index or alternatively you can search by title or subject at Browzine:
If an electronic version is not available, we may have it in print. This is sometimes the case for older journal articles (pre-1999). Print copies of journals are held in our libraries and can be located using Library Search. If in doubt, please contact me as your Subject Librarian.
If you are on campus you can access most databases and ejournals directly.
For off-campus access use the links to resources from Library pages to ensure you gain access to all our subscribed content.
Use the links below to access the most popular databases for Chemistry:
Please note: we do not have access to all titles listed on the site. We have access to titles from the Chemistry Trove package only. The red padlocks indicate titles not included in this package.
Please note: before you use SciFinder for the first time you must register with your UoB email address, to obtain a personal username and password.
Other important chemistry databases will be useful for independent research projects:
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources. From Royal Society of Chemistry
Multidisciplinary databases cover scholarly literature, such as journal articles, conference proceedings and book series across a wide range of subject areas. Attend a workshop to learn how to search effectively, or explore one of our self-guided tutorials to work through at your own pace.
The full list of databases can be found on our A-Z databases page. Here is a selection that are most useful to Chemistry students:
Access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works published by Springer
Science, social science, and arts and humanities research in published in open access journals from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa.
Useful resources to support the design of research methods and methodologies:
A collection of open access research methods resources.
Find dissertations and theses from other institutions using the links below:
A partnership of research libraries and library consortia working together to improve global access to European research theses
A searchable index providing brief citation details to Dissertation Abstracts International. You can choose to personally purchase the full text of dissertations/theses you require or you can request them via our Inter-Library Loans Service.
UK’s national thesis service providing records of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible. Please note: UK theses not available on EThOS can be requested via the Inter-Library Loan service.
A catalogue containing the electronic versions of theses and dissertations submitted to a number of universities in Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America. The catalogue is fully searchable by author, title and subject
Includes citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day. Full-text is available for most dissertations added since 1997. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress, it also includes UK & Ireland content.
Further information about searching for and using Patents in your research can be found on the Civil Engineering subject resources guide.
Patents in Chemical, Engineering, and Electrical & Electronic areas; with links to cited and citing patents, relevant literature, and patent data sources.
Contains all the patent documentation available to European Patent Office examiners and the latest patent applications from all the EPO member states.
Search over 7 million freely available U.S. patents. Patent information includes a summary, details of any claims made, drawings and citations. You can also choose to search for keywords within individual patents.
The Patents Publication Enquiry Service covers all GB applications published and granted after 3 January 2007 and all GB corrected documents published after 1 April 2010.
Full text US patents and published applications. Patents from 1790 to 1975 are searchable only by Patent Number and Current US Classification. From 1976 they are searchable by all fields.
Help and advice on accessing the Library's resources both on and off-site.
