Resources – Longqin Hu

Resources and Links

for Medicinal Chemistry Literature Searches

Journals through Rutgers Library

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost) including online journals like Eur. J. Biochem., etc.
Alphabetical List of Chemistry Journals – A list of almost 700 links to chemistry magazines and journals
ACS Journals
Ingenta from www.ingenta.com formerly called UnCover. Including ScienceDirect links to Elsevier Journals, etc. (but not ACS journals)
ScienceDirect from Elsevier Science (Coverage 1995-present. Full text Elsevier and other Journals including Tetrahedron Info System Journals, Eur. J. Med. Chem., J. Organometallic Chem., Biochem. Pharmacol., etc.)
Springer Nature Journals

Databases

PubMed, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, comprises more than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. It is freely searchable to the public since 1997.
Medline, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, is a database of life sciences and biomedical information. It provides information relevant to the fields of medicine, nursing, and dentistry, and it also covers areas of life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering that are related to health and biomedicine.
Reaxys, Reaxys is a web-based chemistry database that provides user-friendly online access to information about millions of chemical structures, reactions, and properties contained in theBeilstein and Gmelin databases.
SciFinder, is a database of chemical and bibliographic information including patents.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, 1900-)

Drug Information

DrugBank database contains nearly 4300 drug entries and combines detailed drug data (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) with comprehensive drug target information (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway).
Drug Names Pronounced:
Merck Manual (Click any drug name to hear pronunciation) and
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Index (Click Drugs then the specific entry for a link to audio pronunciation file).
Facts & Comparisons® covering more than 22,000 Rx, almost 6,000 OTC, and orphan and investigational drugs, is a browser-based electronic version of the following print publications: Drug Facts and Comparisons, Drug Interaction Facts, Review of Natural Products, Nonprescription Drug Therapy, MedFacts, Drug Interaction Facts: Herbal Supplements and Food, and A to Z Drug Facts
Lexicomp® – Drug Information

Reference Citation Management

EndNote through Rutgers, for collecting and organizing references from online or other sources
RefWorks at Rutgers: RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic software package that enables you to organize your research, import references from many electronic databases, include citations while you write your paper, build a bibliography according to different stylesheets (APA, MLA, etc.) and create a bibliography in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.).

Dictionary

Web Resources

Organic Synthesis Online – Search by keyword, structure, reaction type, etc., requires ChemDraw Plugin.
PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit on the internet.
Other Indexes available through Rutgers Library

Journal Links

Med. Chem.-Related Online Journals through Rutgers Library