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AccessEngineering

AccessEngineering is an engineering reference tool that provides seamless access to a collection of authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information.

It includes also many of the popular Schaum’s Outline titles as well as a curated dataset of 200 materials and 65 properties that can be explored using the DataVis visualisation tool. Access Engineering also comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information as they work.

Arzneibuch-Kommentar

The German Arzneibuch-Kommentar provides scientific explanations to the European Pharmacopoeia.

The European Pharmacopoeia is the regulatory framework for the production and testing of medicinal products that is binding for Germany and Europe.

The Arzneibuch-Kommentar provides the explanations that are required to understand the regulations, and to correctly interpret test results.

For online access to the current version, please contact Regula Furegati.

Arzneimittelkompendium der Schweiz

Swiss Reference Work by Documed, since 1979 the leading source for approved drugs in Switzerland, acknowledged both by Swissmedic and the pharmaceutical industry.

The Kompendium contains information about drugs in Switzerland, inter-action checks, optical identity of drugs (identa), therapeutic registers, list of companies und suitable dosages for children.

ASHP® Injectable Drug Information

Reference work for injectable drugs.

Provides information on the compatibility and stability of injectable drugs, contains data to some 406 drugs, includes references to the major reference work "AHFS Drug Interaction", provides information regarding production, storage and use of injectable drugs.

Access via the platform Drugbase.

ASM Alloy Phase Diagram

The ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database contains over 40,300 binary and ternary alloy phase diagrams from over 9,000

inorganic systems, each with their associated crystal, reaction and bibliographic data.

Search options:

  • Element search is the quickest way to find phase diagrams based on specific elements. Select one, two or three elements from the drop-down lists and indicate if you are searching for binary, ternary, or both types of diagrams.
  • Quick search performs a text search and is useful when searching with keywords.
  • With Advanced search users can define their own search queries or choose from the pre-defined ones (Structure search, Reaction search, Elements search, Bibliographic search).

One can also explore the database by browsing Phase

Diagrams, Reactions, Structures, or Bibliography in the

contents tree.

ASM Handbooks Online

ASM Handbooks Online is a peer-reviewed source of information on ferrous and non-ferrous metals and materials technology.

The quarterly updated database contains the complete content of more than thirty volumes of the ASM Handbook, several ASM Handbook supplements, and two ASM Desk Editions. Over 25,000 pages of articles, illustrations, tables, graphs, specifications and practical examples can be accessed.

BIOSIS Previews

BIOSIS Previews is a database within the larger Web of Science and combines journal content from Biological Abstracts® with supplemental, non-journal coverage from Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). Specialized indexing helps you discover more accurate, context-sensitive results.

BIOSIS life sciences databases deliver current, multidisciplinary information from many fields , including agriculture, biodiversity, biotechnology, botany, drug discovery, gene therapy, marine biology, wildlife conservation, zoology, and other topics. BIOSIS also provides specialized indexing, with tags to vital data such as CAS Registry numbers, Enzyme Commission numbers, and cross-references throughout to gene, disease, and organism names.

BRENDA

BRENDA is the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community.

The enzymes are classified according to the Enzyme Commission list of enzymes. Some 1.900.000 different enzymes are covered. The database holds information about nomenclature, reactivity and specificity, structure, isolation and purification, and stability of enzymes as well as cross references to structure databases and references to literature.

British Pharmacopoeia

Produced by the British Pharmacopoeia Commission Secretariat of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, and updated annually, the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the official, authoritative collection of standards for UK medicinal substances for human and veterinary use.

Where a pharmacopoeial monograph exists, medicinal products sold or supplied in the UK must comply with the relevant monograph. All monographs and requirements of the European Pharmacopoeia are also reproduced in the BP.

CAB direct

CAB Direct is the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health.

The latter two can also be searched via Web of Science.

CAB Direct is CABI's electronic platform delivering access to over 11.5 million abstracts across the applied life sciences. Coverage includes the bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. CAB Direct uses the CAB Thesaurus, the extensive online index of CABI terms for searching.

Cambridge Structural Database (WebCSD)

Collection of small-molecule organic and organometallic crystal structures.

WebCSD is the online version of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) which contains over one million crystal structures of small-molecule organic and organometallic compounds. The structures have been determined using X-ray and neutron diffraction. For each structure the information on the space group symmetry of the crystalline phase, its cell parameters and the atomic coordinates of all the atoms in the cell are provided. An overview of the search options you can find on the CSD help page. At ETH Zurich, a local installation of the CSD is also available, which allows more elaborate operations. For more information please contact Dr. Michael Dieter Wörle.

CAS Common Chemistry

Open Chemistry Information Database

The database contains nearly 500,000 chemical substances, including common and frequently regulated chemicals. Entries provide current and deprecated CAS numbers, name and synonyms, molecular formula and mass, boiling and melting point as well as density. In addition, a variety of machine-readable chemical identifiers are available. Search by InChI works fine, SMILES not really. There is an API available.

ChemExper Chemical Directory

Database with millions of chemicals from over 1000 international suppliers.

The database can be searched by IUPAC-name, molecular formula, sub(structure), CAS registry Number, physical and chemical characteristics. Everyone can request and also upload data.

Chemical Safety Library

The Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library provides unique crowd sourced data content containing hazardous reactions that can be used to alert scientists to potential dangerous experiments.

Information can be found using CAS Registry Number, CSL Number, Chemical Name, SMILES, InChi, InChi Key, or MCFD Numbers. For entering your own description of incidents, you will need to create an account. The database is hosted by CAS.

Chemisches Zentralblatt

First and oldest reference work for chemistry. For more information please contact Dr. Jozica Dolenc.

Chemisches Zentralblatt is the first and oldest comprehensive abstracts journal in chemistry and existed from 1830 till 1969. It is a very important source for searches of literature that was published before 1940, because its abstracts were more elaborate and of better quality than those of Chemical Abstracts. In particular, it is suited for searches of preparations of well-known "ancient" compounds, but also for searches to defend prior art claims in patents and papers. Chemisches Zentralblatt is also an important source of chemistry history, since many references to the birth of chemistry as science – opposed to alchemy – and to development of 20th century chemistry and industrial chemistry can be found.

ChemSpider

Open Chemistry Information Database

ChemSpider provides fast access to over 125 million structures, properties, and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from hundreds of high-quality data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. It is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons

This practical manual and standard reference work provides the definitive source of Analytical data for drugs and poisons.

It is intended for use primarily by scientists faced with identifying and quantifying these substances in body fluids, tissue samples or pharmaceutical and industrial products.

Access via MedicinesComplete.

ClinicalTrials.gov

Largest public register of clinical trials.

ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, contains over 430'000 clinical trials from 221 countries. Extensive search capabilities are available.

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by the Cochrane Collaboration and other organizations.

At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research. The Cochrane Library aims to make the results of well-conducted controlled trials readily available and is the key resource in evidence-based medicine. Due to a national license, the Cochrane Library is freely accessible in Switzerland.

CoGe Comparative Genomics

CoGe is a platform for performing Comparative Genomics research.

Here is a typical work flow: Start with your favorite genome (mouse), do a whole genome comparison of it to human using SynMap, identify a region with an Inversion, compare the breakpoints of that region in high-detail using GEvo, extract out the human sequence using SeqView, find all the protein coding regions using FeatView, use them to find homologs in other vertebrate genomes (e.g. chimp, mouse, and platypus) using CoGeBlast, validate putative syntenic regions using GEvo and more!

Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD)

Database with information on chemical compounds.

Combined Chemical Dictionary, part of CRC Press' CHEMnetBASE, is a chemical database of organic, organometallic, and inorganic compounds, active pharmaceutical ingredients, natural products, food substances, and commonly used compounds. Entries include substance structure, chemical and physical data, CAS Registry Number, toxicity data, usage data, and literature citations. Data are taken from the Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Marine Natural Products, Polymers: A Property Database, Dictionary of Drugs, and the Dictionary of Food Compounds. All of these resources are also individually searchable. The previously separately searchable "Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (DIOC)" and "Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds" have been discontinued, but the data they contain can still be found via CCD.

Cortellis Drug Discovery Intelligence

Pipeline Drug Database on drugs in development. It was formerly called Clarivate Integrity or Thompson Reuters Integrity.

Cortlelis provides researchers, especially in the pharmaceutical industry with reliable, detailed information, across multiple disciplines to support successful drug research and development. Updated daily, the database provides comprehensive search, retrieval and analysis tools.

Please note: Access to a limited user group only.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

An excellent source of numerical data for physicochemical properties.

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, a part of the CHEMnetBASE service, is a comprehensive one-volume reference resource for chemistry and physics, first published in 1913 and regularly updated with new data. It contains tables with properties of chemical compounds as well as mathematical and physical formula.

Crystallography Open Database (COD)

Freely accessible repository for small-molecule organic, inorganic, organometallic and mineral crystal structures.

The Crystallography Open Database (COD) gathers available inorganic, organometallic and small organic molecule structural data in one database and adopts an open access model. The COD contains entries in Crystallographic Information File (CIF) Format, with nearly full coverage of the International Union of Crystallography publications.

Current Protocols

25,000 step-by-step techniques, procedures, and practical overviews

The Current Protocols collection includes over 25,000 step-by-step techniques, procedures, and practical overviews that provide researchers with reliable, efficient methods to ensure reproducible results and pave the way for critical scientific discovery.

Database of Zeolite Structures

Crystal structures of zeolite-type compounds.

The Database of Zeolite Structures provides structural information on all zeolite structure types. This includes crystallographic data and drawings for all zeolite framework types, simulated and measured powder patterns for representative materials and relevant references.

Derwent Innovations Index

Database providing international patent information.

A patent database within the larger Web of Science. Derwent divides patents into 3 broad areas: Chemical; Electrical and Electronics; and Engineering. Searchable by topic, inventor, and assignee. There is also a citation analysis function. The Derwent Innovations Index covers patents from over 59 patent-issuing authorities from 1963 onwards and it merges contents from Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Patents Citation Index.

DETHERM

The numerical database DETHERM contains thermophysical material data for the design and construction of chemical apparatus, plants and processes.

DETHERM contains thermophysical substance data of pure substances and mixtures. Literature values are stored together with the respective bibliographic data, descriptors and abstracts. The database contains more than 11.8 million data records of more than 76'000 pure substances and 253'000 mixtures and is updated annually.

Deutscher Arzneimittel-Codex – Neues Rezeptur-Formularium (DAC/NRF)

The Deutsche Arzneimittel-Codex is a supplemental resource to the German Arzneibuch and is jointly published with the Neue Rezeptur-Formularium.

DAC/NRF reports drugs and starting materials for pharmaceutical drugs that are not reported in the European Pharmacopeia or the German Arzneibuch (DAB).

You can access DAC / NRF online via the information center, please contact Regula Furegati.

Dictionary of Organic Compounds

Database of information on organic compounds.

Dictionary of Organic Compounds, a part of the CHEMnetBASE service, contains chemical, structural, and bibliographic information on the most important organic compounds covering a wide range of commonly used chemicals, synthetic reagents, pesticides, a selection of natural products, pharmaceuticals, and analytical reagents. The wealth of data provided includes names and synonyms, formulae, chemical structures, CAS registry numbers, chemical and physical properties, and key literature citations.

Dimensions

The young, innovative abstract and citation database.

Launched in 2018, Dimensions has been integrating services such as ORCID, Altmetrics, ReadCube and Figshare. Various tools allow you to analyze, visualize and track research results. "Abstract search" is an interesting feature: An abstract text is copied into the search field and the extracted concepts are used to search for similar articles.

Export options for VOSViewer-compatible export exist for the visualization of bibliographic connections. The basic version is freely available and both content and functionality are constantly being expanded. With the ETH license, in addition to the usual journals and patents, you can also search research grants, clinical studies and policy documents and access to the data via API is possible on request.

Dissertations & Theses

The ProQuest Dissertation & Theses (PQDT) database is a curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities.

Dissertations are not indexed in many literature databases and are therefore difficult to find. However, they can be particularly valuable if they contain negative results, which therefore have never ended up being published in a scientific journal.

Drugbase

Drugbase Plus is a web portal that provides access to several pharmaceutical databases.

The Info Center provides the following databases via this plattform:

  • Fiedler – Encyclopedia of Excipients
  • Hagers Enzyklopädie der Arzneistoffe und Drogen
  • ASHP Injectable Drug Information
  • Index Nominum
  • Please note that only ONE concurrent user is allowed. Please log out once you are done. Please note also, that due to license restrictions use is only permitted for educational purposes. If you need to have access for research purposes you need to use another log-in. Please contact Regula Furegati or Dr. Oliver Renn.

EAWAG-Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (BBD)

EAWAG-BBD (formerly University of Minnesota UM-BBD) contains information on microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for primarily xenobiotic, chemical compounds.

The goal of the EAWAG-BBD is to provide information on microbial enzyme-catalyzed reactions that are important for biotechnology. The database contains information on microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for primarily xenobiotic chemical compounds. In addition, this database also contains Biochemical Periodic Tables (BPT) and a Pathway Prediction System (PPS).

ECOTOX

The ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data or aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife.

ECOTOX integrates three previously independent databases - AQUIRE, PHYTOTOX, and TERRETOX - into a unique system which includes toxicity data derived predominantly from the peer-reviewed literature, for aquatic life, terrestrial plants, and terrestrial wildlife, respectively. Not all data published in the peer review ecotoxicology literature are included in ECOTOX. You may want to refer to the Limitations section of the complete User Guide for more information.

Embase

Elsevier’s Embase is a proprietary database that contains more than 32 million records of international biomedical literature including pharmacovigilance, medical devices, and drug-related research. Embase lists more than 2.4 million conference abstracts from 5500+ conferences and almost 3000 journals that are not indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE.

Embase provides sophisticated search functions. The database enables ‘natural language' search with synonyms, employs its own thesaurus EMTREE, and links similar and corresponding articles. The database also permits multiple filtering options to narrow searches.

Embase is updated daily.

EMBL-EBI The European Bioinformatics institute

EMBL-EBI provides freely accessible data from life science experiments covering the full spectrum of molecular biology.

EBI maintains the world’s most comprehensive range of freely accessible and up-to-date molecular databases. Developed in collaboration with researchers worldwide, the services let you share data, perform complex queries and analyse the results in different ways.

eMolecules

Open Access search engine for chemicals and antibodies. Maybe, if all else fails, you will find what you are looking for here.

eMolecules is the open-access chemistry search engine and provides structures, chemical and physical data as well as commercial suppliers for over 9 million chemicals. The search allows querying for names, CAS Registry Number, structures or substructures and suppliers.

Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS)

Systematic and exhaustive collection of reagents and catalysts used in organic synthesis. Each reagent comes with a range of exemplary reactions.

e-EROS offers a systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents and catalysts used in organic synthesis. It contains more than 5 250 compounds and provides information on purification, stability and physical appearance of reagents, but also about their various applications in synthesis. The database can be searched by CAS Registry numbers, InChI, or InChI Keys, keywords and phrases, reagent name (CAS works better), name reaction, author, reference, and publication year.

Espacenet

Access to the EPO database of over 140 million patents.

Espacenet is a free online service for searching patents and patent applications. Espacenet was developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) together with the member states of the European Patent Organisation.

While Espacenet is particularly valuable for exploring patent families, documents can only be downloaded as scan-pdfs of dubious quality (no full text search). For the download of searchable full texts, we recommend Google Patents.

European Pharmacopoeia

Collection of regulations on the quality of medicines, pharmaceutical excipients and various medical devices.

To get access to the current 10th edition please contact Maria Pechlaner (ETH members only).

Since March 1st, 2020 the old 9th edition is no longer available.

ExPASy Bioinformatics Resource Portal

ExPASy is the SIB Bioinformatics Resource Portal which provides access to scientific databases and software tools in different areas of life sciences including proteomics, genomics, phylogeny, systems biology, population genetics, transcriptomics etc.

ExPASy is one of the main bioinformatics resources for proteomics worldwide and became an extensive and integrative portal accessing many scientific resources, databases and software tools in different areas of life sciences. Scientists can access seamlessly a wide range of resources in many different domains.

Fiedler - Lexicon of Excipients

Database on some 12'000 excipients used in pharmacy, cosmetics and related fields.

Monographs follow a unified structure, presenting names and synonyms, definitions, basic properties, application characteristics, stability and incompatibilities, pharmacology and toxicology, analysis methods, references and a manufacturers directory.

Fiedler can be accessed via the platfom Drugbase.

GESTIS Substance Database

Information system on hazardous substances of the German Social Accident Insurance.

The GESTIS Substance Database contains information for the safe handling of hazardous substances and other chemical substances at work, e.g. health effects, necessary protective measures and such in case of danger (incl. First Aid). Furthermore the user is offered information upon important physical and chemical properties as well as special regulations. The available information relates to about 8700 substances. Data are updated immediately after publication of new official regulations or after the issue of new scientific results.

GlyTouCan

GlyTouCan is the international glycan structure repository and assigns unique identifiers to glycans.

With GlyTouCan identifiers, the content of the major freely accessible carbohydrate databases was integrated. GlyTouCan identifiers were connected with sequence and taxonomic data from GlycoChemExplorer, GlycoEpitope, GlycomeDB, GlycoNAVI, GlyConnect, JCGGDB AIST and UniCarbKB and made accessible through the web portal via the underlying annotation from BCSDB, Carbbank (CCSD), CFG, GlycoBase (Dublin), GlycoBase (Lille), GLYCOSCIENCES.de, KEGG, PubChem CID, PubChem SID, SugarBindDB und des Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Using GlyTouCan it is possible to get an overview of all carbohydrate structures in the different databases.

Hager's Encyclopedia of Medicinal Substances and Drugs

Data collection on drugs, poisons, herbal drugs and medicinal plants.

Hager's encyclopedia, with its broad content range and the high quality of the information, is the standard reference work for pharmacology, pharmaceutical research and public pharmacies and also the biggest data collection: >5 600 substances, >3 200 medicinal drugs, including cross-references as hyperlinks, >32 500 links to Medline, >560 color reproductions of plants, >12 000 structure formulae.

Access via the platform Drugbase.

HMDB Human Metabolome Database

The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) contains detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in the human body.

HMDB is a resource dedicated to providing scientists with the most current and comprehensive coverage of the human metabolome and containing detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in the human body. It is intended to be used for applications in metabolomics, clinical chemistry, biomarker discovery and general education. The database is designed to contain or link three kinds of data: 1) chemical data, 2) clinical data, and 3) molecular biology/biochemistry data.

Horticulture Compendium

The Horticulture Compendium is a unique searchable compilation of knowledge on horticultural crops.

The Horticulture Compendium is a unique searchable compilation of knowledge on horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and commodity crops. It covers a global range of major horticulture crops together with lesser-known minor crop species of emerging importance. Key topic chapter-like articles compliment detailed crop datasheets and explore concepts such as food safety, harvesting and post-harvesting issues. Basic information is given on relevant pests that might damage these crops.

Index Nominum

The Index Nominum is a database for drugs, trade names, synonyms, chemical structures and therapeutic classes of substances, issued by the Swiss Pharmacists Association.

Substances can be searched using the following criteria: substance name, trade name, therapeutic group, manufacturer / country, synonyms, pharmacopoeia name, chemical name, formula, CAS number and derivatives. Searching of the entire data set (full text) is also possible. For each substance the structural formula is shown. Information on trade names / generics, manufactures / countries, synonyms and pharmacopoeia name of substance are available with a click. For almost all manufacturers addresses of the offices in each country are given.

Access via Drugbase.

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database Web (ICSD)

Collection of inorganic crystal structures.

The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database contains high quality crystal structure data of inorganic compounds including compound name, molecular formula, crystal symmetry group, unit cell parameters, atomic coordinates, temperature factors and bibliographic information. The structures are derived from more than 1 400 journals published worldwide.

iScienceSearch

Comprehensive search engine for chemical compounds with many features.

iScienceSearch is an innovative search engine for scientists that want to search for chemical data on the web – it makes a federated search over many chemical and pharmaceutical databases resulting in millions of websites which associate chemical structures with data. iScienceSearch allows searching by structure, chemical names and synonyms, CAS Registry Numbers and free text.

Israel Science and Technology Directory

Comprehensive directory of various databases and tools for science and technology; especially the collection for biological resources is extensive.

The Israel Science and Technology Directory is the national database of Israel and maintains all relevant science and technology websites. The site also contains sections on Jewish scientists and students in the diaspora.

IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database

Solubility measurements including liquid-liquid, solid-liquid and gas-liquid systems.

The IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database contains mutual solubilities and liquid-liquid equilibria of binary, ternary and quaternary systems. Typical solvents and solutes include water, sea water, heavy water, inorganic compounds, and a variety of organic compounds such as hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, esters and nitrogen compounds. The solubilities were originally published in the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)-NIST Solubility Data Series.

Japanese Pharmacopoeia

The Japanese Pharmacopoeia is the official reference work for drugs in Japan.

It is published by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency under the authority of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citations Reports are the source for the annually calculated and published impact factors of journals as well as for other bibliometric data on journals.

Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from all subject areas and geographical regions. It is the only source of the impact factor and other citation data on journals, and covers virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you, e.g., the

  • most frequently cited journals in a field,
  • highest impact journals in a field.

KEGG Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes

KEGG databases integrates genomic, chemical and systemic functional information of organisms. KEGG pathways is a collection of manually drawn pathway maps on the molecular interaction and reaction networks for many cellular processes.

KEGG is an integrated database resource consisting of the eighteen main databases for understanding high-level functions and utilities of biological systems, such as the cell, the organism and the ecosystem, from molecular-level information, especially large-scale molecular datasets generated by genome sequencing and other high-throughput experimental technologies. They are roughly categorized into systems information, genomic information, chemical information and health information.

KnowItAll AnyWare

Web interface to search Wiley's spectral databases.

KnowItAll AnyWare provides unlimited access to over 2 million spectra of organic and inorganic compounds. Search options include chemical name, molecular formula, CAS registry number, structure including substructure search, peak lists, and other properties. In addition, possible candidate structures can be searched by uploading spectral data.

Marinlit

Database of marine natural products.

MarinLit is searchable by text and structure, and queries can be built across a number of fields and parameters (e.g. molecular formula, taxonomy or geography). Along with comprehensive information on relevant published articles and compounds, MarinLit provides dereplication tools based on experimental and predicted data.

Martindale: the complete drug reference

Clinically relevant drug information with a global focus.

Martindale contains more than 7,500 drug monographs and information on side effects, precautions, interactions, use and application, and pharmacokinetics.

Access via MedicinesComplete.

Materials Science & Engineering Database

The most comprehensive database in the field of materials science including sources that are not referenced in interdisciplinary databases such as Web of Science or Scopus.

The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and patents. It provides bibliographic coverage of literature on metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, composites, bioengineering and biotechnology, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, corrosion, and more.

MedicinesComplete

MedicinesComplete is a web portal that provides access to several pharmaceutical databases.

The Info Center provides the following databases via this plattform:

  • Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons
  • Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
  • Pharmaceutical Excipients

Merck Index

For over 120 years The Merck Index has been regarded as the most authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.

It contains over 11,500 monographs – including historic records not available in the print edition. Users can perform simple searches on a number of different properties and fields, construct complex multi-parameter searches, as well as search by chemical structure.

MeSH Browser

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are the indexing system that form the basis for efficient and effective searches in PubMed. In the MeSH browser you can search for the correct index words (MeSH terms), e.g. "cancer" returns "neoplasm".

Each article in PubMed is read by an expert and indexed according to a specific system with MeSH terms. With the use of MeSH, the number of hits in PubMed can be drastically reduced. MeSH terms are hierarchically organized and one can easily find more general head terms or more specific sub-headings.

NAKB Nucleic Acid Knowledgebase

A portal with a search function, reports, and statistical data for nucleic acids with experimental 3D structures, a successor to the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB)

The Nucleic Acid Knowledgebase (NAKB) is the successor to the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB). The NAKB provides search, report, statistics, atlas, and visualization pages for all nucleic-acid containing experimentally determined 3D structures held by NDB and the PDB. For each structure, links are provided to external resources that annotate and analyze the structures and their complexes.

NCBI Entrez

Entrez is the primary text search and retrieval system of NCBI’s (National Center for Biotechnology Information) that integrates the PubMed database of biomedical literature with 39 other literature and molecular databases.

The Entrez system comprises 40 molecular and literature databases, that can be searched simultanously and many bioinformatics tools and software for the analysis of DNA and protein sequences, structures, genes, genomes, genetic variations and gene expression datas. The databases are permanently updated and curated by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The website offers extensive user tutorials for most services.

Nexis Uni

Nexis Uni provides access to press, business, financial and legal information.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) includes daily access to over 17,000 journals, magazines and newspapers from around the world such as DER SPIEGEL, Die ZEIT, Die Welt, The New York Times, or Le Figaro. To check if a specific source is included, select "Menu" and then "All Sources". Articles are not presented in the original layout of the print edition, but as a text-only version. Nexis Uni covers industry information, legal information, federal and state cases and statues especially for the Anglo-American region, as well as business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives.

NIST Chemistry WebBook

Freely accessible database of spectroscopic, chromatographic, solubility and thermophysical data on chemical compounds.

NIST WebBook provides chemical and physical data of chemical species and reactions. The data is from collections maintained by NIST and outside contributors. The NIST Chemistry Webbook contains, among others, thermochemical data for organic and small inorganic compounds, reaction thermochemistry data, IR, mass, electronic/vibrational and UV/Vis spectra, GC retention data, spectroscopic constants of diatomic molecules, ionisation energies and thermophysical property data for fluids.

NIST Standard Reference Database 46, Version 8.0

Database on stability constants of metal complexes that has been discontinued. It can be downloaded as a file and runs in a 32-bit Windows environment.

It provides comprehensive coverage of interactions for aqueous systems of organic and inorganic ligands with protons and various metal ions. Contents are stability constants, enthalpies, and entropies of proton and metal ion equilibria with ligands under defined conditions of ionic strength and temperature. The database is based on the six-volume book “Critical Stability Constants” by Martell and Smith.

Organic Synthesis

Collection of tested procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds.

Annually expanded collection of detailed and reliable procedures for the synthesis of representative organic compounds. Each of these procedures has been tested/reproduced and commented on in a second, independent laboratory.

Pathway/Genome Database Collection

BioCyc is a collection of 19534 Pathway/Genome Databases for model eukaryotes and for thousands of microbes, plus software tools for exploring them.

The BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) provides a reference on the genomes, metabolic pathways, and (in some cases) regulatory networks of thousands of sequenced organisms. Each database combines information from computational inferences, imported data and manual curation.

Pharmaceutical Excipients

This reference work contains essential data on the physical properties of excipients, their safe use and potential toxicity.

The Handbook collects essential data on the physical properties of excipients such as: boiling point, bulk and tap density, compression characteristics, hygroscopicity, flowability, melting point, moisture content, moisture-absorption isotherms, particle size distribution, rheology, specific surface area, and solubility. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) photographs, near-infrared range (NIR) spectra, infrared (IR) spectra, and/or Raman spectra are available for some of the excipients.

Access is provided through the platform MedicinesComplete.

Pharmacopoea Helvetica

The Pharmacopoea Helvetica (Ph. Helv.) supplements the Pharmacopoea Europaea (Ph. Eur.) with legally binding quality regulations for Switzerland for common and well-known drugs and pharmaceutical excipients as well as for individual medical devices.

The pharmacopoeia is published by Swissmedic on the basis of the Therapeutic Products Act. Starting July 1, 2019, the free electronic version is legally binding, and no longer the printed version.

Phase Equilibria Diagrams Online

The database contains all published NIST/American Ceramic Society phase equilibria diagrams and commentaries. It is also known as NIST Standard Reference DB 31.

It provides access to approximately 28,500 critically-evaluated phase equilibria diagrams (PED) for a range of non-organic materials including oxides, chalcogenides, pnictides, actinides, semiconductors and various salts. The phase diagrams can be viewed and manipulated interactively and the PED figures are available as pdf files. You can search diagrams by chemical system (components, elements) or by publication data (PED figure number, authors, publication year). Please follow the installation instructions on the start page of the database to install the PED Editor, which is needed to digitize phase diagrams and to extract data from them.

Portal for Standards

ETH library provides full text search within and access to standards via normI.

This platform enables access to all standards licensed at ETH via one channel. Standards from the following sources are available: ASTM International, DIN, Electrosuisse, IEEE International, INB / SM / ES / SIA National / SIA International, ISO, VDI and IEC.

PRIDE Archive

The PRIDE PRoteomics IDEntifications (PRIDE) Archive database is a centralized, standards compliant, public data repository for mass spectrometry proteomics data, including protein and peptide identifications and the corresponding expression values, post-translational modifications and supporting mass spectra evidence (both as raw data and peak list files).

PRIDE is a core member in the ProteomeXchange (PX) consortium, which provides a standardised way for submitting mass spectrometry based proteomics data to public-domain repositories. Datasets are submitted to ProteomeXchange via PRIDE and are handled by expert bio-curators. All PRIDE public datasets can also be searched in ProteomeCentral, the portal for all ProteomeXchange datasets.

PubChem

Open Chemistry Information Database

PubChem provides information on the chemical and physical properties, biological activities, spectra, patents, health, safety and toxicity data of predominantly small molecules but also some larger molecules such as peptides, carbohydrates, nucleotides and lipids. The database is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem records are contributed by hundreds of data sources including research organisations, government agencies, chemical vendors, academic publishers and more.

PubMed

PubMed is a freely accessible bibliographic literature database that lists individual articles from almost 5,000 medically relevant journals. The main focus is on English-language journals, usually from 1966 onwards. PubMed's special feature is the MeSH classification, which is extremely helpful in finding really relevant literature.

PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

PubPharm

PubPharm is a freely accessible search engine for biomedical literature that provides information from MEDLINE, journal articles, preprints, dissertations, conference abstracts, clinical trials and patents.

Not only allows PubPharm standard search by text or structure input, but also has features that are not available in PubMed or Embase: With Drug Overviews, a network visualization of diseases, drugs, and targets can be created. The Narrative Service allows you to search for how one search term influences another. This influence is a directed association like "induces", "decreases", "inhibits", "treats" and "interacts". Furthermore, you can use placeholders, e.g. "ivermectin treats diseases" to list all diseases that can be treated with ivermectin by frequency.

RCSB PDB Protein Data Bank

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a repository for stractural data of biological macromolecular structures (mainly proteins, but also DNA & RNA). PDB 101 provides very good educational resources.

The data, typically obtained by X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy and are freely accessible via the websites of its member organisations (PDBe, PDBj, and RCSB). The PDB is overseen by an organization called the Worldwide Protein Data Bank, wwPDB.

The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) is dedicated to improving our understanding of the function of biological systems through the study of the 3-D structure of biological macromolecules.

Reaxys

A web-based chemistry workflow tool for retrieval of chemical compounds, reactions, physicochemical properties and bibliographic data.

Reaxys is a chemistry database consisting of deeply excerpted compounds and related factual properties, reaction and synthesis information as well as bibliographic data, navigated and displayed via an actionable interface. The core of the database (Beilstein, Gmelin and others) is a comprehensive set of chemistry literature including journals, patents and textbook chapters. Reaxys contains more than 57 million reactions, 179 million substances and over 500 million experimental data points.

Römpp

Initially founded in 1947 as a chemistry reference work, today the RÖMPP is the largest and most prestigious encyclopedia of chemistry and related sciences in German language.

RÖMPP contains about 64 000 keywords that are cross-linked by approximately 290 000 cross references. About 23 000 structural formulas and illustrations facilitate understanding and provide valuable additional information. High quality and reliability of content is ensured by pre-defined standards of scientific editors.

RSC Education in Chemistry

Education in Chemistry is both a platform with resources and a magazine for chemistry teachers and lecturers, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Their website includes all new articles and resources from 2007 onwards. Registration with your ETH-Email gives you access to more content.

Science of Synthesis

Database of methodologies for synthesis of organic compounds.

Science of Synthesis is a critical reference work of preparative synthetic methodology in the field of organic and organometallic chemistry and includes the Houben-Weyl collection, which among other things contains information on practical laboratory work. The systematic and logical organization of the synthetic methods according to structural motifs enables users to quickly find solutions for their synthetic challenges. There are regular thematic issues on topics like flow chemistry, biocatalysis, stereoselective synthesis or photochemistry.

SciFinder n

SciFindern is the new, user-friendly web search tool for the Chemical Abstracts databases and the MEDLINE database of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

The Chemical Abstracts databases are the most important databases in chemistry and related sciences. You can search for literature references including patents, substances, reactions, chemical suppliers and regulations.

Registration: To be able to use SciFindern, you have to register with your ETH Zurich e-mail address. Access is restricted to the ethz.ch domain. From outside the ETH you can use SciFinder after establishing a VPN connection.

Once you submit the form, CAS sends you an email message with instructions for completing the registration process. After completing the registration process, a final conformation message is displayed and you can use SciFindern.

Scopus

The world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed journals. Find almost any journal, paper or author and set-up all kinds of alerts (keywords, new citations of key paper, author etc.).

Scopus offers the most comprehensive overview of research results in science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities. Scopus covers more than 25 100 peer-reviewed journals by more than 7,000 publishers, 580 book series, as well as 9 million conference papers. In total, there are more than 77 million records, amongst them over 71 million records post 1969, with complete references.

Numerous tools allow you to analyze visualize and follow up on research results.

Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)

Freely accessible spectral database for organic compounds

SDBS includes six different types of spectra: electron impact mass spectra (EI-MS), Fourier transform infrared spectra (FT-IR), 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra, 13C NMR spectra, laser Raman spectra, and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra. Records include graphical structures and spectra, with peak assignments in many cases. Compounds may be searched by name, molecular formula, molecular weight, CAS registry number, number of atoms/elements, and spectral data.

Most of the spectra were measured at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan.

SpringerMaterials

The world's largest database for physical and chemical data in the fields of physics, physical and inorganic chemistry, materials science and engineering.

SpringerMaterials is a source for physicochemical properties of inorganic and organic compounds and their mixtures, elements, alloys, ceramics, polymers, plastics, and semiconductors. It consists of six major parts: Landolt-Börnstein Series, Linus-Pauling Files, Adsorption Database, Polymer Thermodynamics Database, Thermophysical Properties Database and MSI Database including a set of advanced functionalities for visualizing and analyzing data called "SpringerMaterials Interactive".

SpringerNature Experiments

This full-text search portal for four SpringerNature journals not only searches abstracts and therefore finds the right literature using very specific experimental keywords such as experiment type, cell lines, media, inductors or vectors.

The hits obtained can be sorted by relevance, date, quotations or "trends". In addition, the list can be further restricted by filters such as techniques (e.g. Luciferase reporter assay), model systems (e.g. HCT 116 or HEK293T) or video, but also by the usual filters such as year, source and article categories. The underlying information comes from four journals: NatureMethods, Nature Protocols, SpringerProtocols and Protcol Exchange.

 

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TAIR The Arabidopsis Information System

TAIR provides all known Informations on Genetics and Molecular Biology of the Model Plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) maintains a database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available from TAIR includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community. Gene product function data is updated every week from the latest published research literature and community data submissions. TAIR also provides extensive linkouts from our data pages to other Arabidopsis resources.

The Human Protein Atlas

The Human Protein Atlas (HPA) is the most extensive collection of human proteomics data available.

HPA has collected millions of records about expressed human proteins in cells, tissues and organs derived from a large variety of -omics technologies, for instance mass spectrometry-based proteomics, transcriptomics and systems biology.

Toxinfo

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

ToxInfo allows the search of chemicals and drugs, diseases and the environment, environmental health, occupational safety and health, poisoning, risk assessment and regulations, and toxicology. ToxInfo provides links to PubMed, and to additional sources of toxicological information.

UCSC Genome Browser

The UCSC Genome Browser is an interactive website that provides access to genome sequence from many (in)vertebrate species and major model organisms as well as a large collection of aligned annotations. The open-source, web-based tool suite can be downloaded and offers an user optimized graphical viewer interface for rapid visualization, examination, and querying of the data at many levels.

The UCSC Browser can display any sequence regardless of its size, ranging from a single nucleotide to an entire chromosome with full annotation tracks, and enables a very convienient drag-and-zoom feature to explore any region of interest. The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics website contains the database, browsing tools, data files and extensive documentation.

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry

The leading resource for industrial chemistry.

This state-of-the-art reference work gives details on the science and technology in all areas of industrial chemistry. Subject areas include: inorganic and organic chemicals, advanced materials, pharmaceuticals, polymers and plastics, metals and alloys, biotechnology and biotechnological products, food chemistry, process engineering and unit operations, analytical methods, environmental protection, and many more. It contains over 1 000 review articles, written by some 3 000 authors. With more than 16 million words, nearly 15 000 tables, 25 000 figures, and innumerable literature sources and cross-references, it offers a wealth of comprehensive and well-structured information on all facets of industrial chemistry.

UniprotKB

Freely accessible and highly useful database for everybody working with proteins.

UniprotKB is a freely accessible database, which contains sequences and functional information for most of the proteins studied to date. It combines the two major databases Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL. Swiss-Prot contains more than 500’000 reviewed and manually annotated entries, providing information about the protein sequence, structure, natural variants, post-translational modifications, cellular localization, functionality and many more. The information is extracted from literature and regularly updated. TrEMBL, on the other hand, contains more than 100 million entries, which are not reviewed and automatically updated.

US Pharmacopoeia

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is the official pharmacopeia of the United States, published together with the National Formulary as the USP-NF.

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (usually also called the USP) is a nonprofit organization that owns the trademark and copyright to the USP-NF and publishes it every year. Prescription, over–the–counter medicines and other health care products sold in the United States are required to follow the standards in the USP-NF. USP also sets standards for food ingredients and dietary supplements.

Access via Dr. Maria Pechlaner.

USPTO

Full text patent database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The USPTO houses full text for patents issued from 1976 to the present and PDF images for all patents from 1790 to the present.

Web of Science

Comprehensive bibliographic and citation database platform.

Web of Knowledge is a platform providing access to bibliographic content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information. It includes several databases which can be searched simultaneously, e.g. Web of Science, BIOSIS, CABI, Current Contents, Derwent Innovation, Data Citation Index, FSTA, Inspec, Zoological Record and Journal Citation Reports. The portal was was formerly known as Web of Knowledge.

WikiPathways

WikiPathways is a Wiki-based open-source database that provides genomic, chemical and systemic-functional information on molecular interactions and reaction networks of numerous biological processes. Similar to the KEGG database, WikiPathways provides a metabolic map.

WikiPathways supports many interactive functions that allow the user to make optimal use of the information, e.g. genes, proteins, metabolites and pathways are linked to the corresponding Wikipedia articles.