Finding Articles
From a Reference (Known Article)
Use our Citation Search Form to enter bibliographic information and see if we have access to the article electronically. If we don't, check the Library Catalog for the print journal.
Search Tools and Indexes
- SciFinder - Chemical Abstracts
- Search the full Chemical Abstracts database back to 1907.
- Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
- Search for papers that cite earlier papers. 1965-present. Tips and more info
- PubMed
- Index to world biomedical literature, 1950-present.
- Analytical Abstracts
- This search tool covers the literature of analytical chemistry since 1980 and is searchable by analyte and matrix as well as by conventional keyword and bibliographic data.
- Google Scholar
- Google's scholarly literature search engine should not be relied upon for comprehensive research, especially when more reliable and authoritative index tools are available. Off-campus UT-Austin users should use this proxied link to have access to licensed full text.
- Gray Literature
- Tools and tips for locating conference papers, meeting abstracts, preprints, and technical reports.
- Historical Chemical Literature
- Tools and tips for locating articles before Chemical Abstracts began in 1907.
Alerting Services
- TOCs and RSS Feeds
- You can register for email alerts of new tables of contents directly with many electronic journals. Go to the journal's home page and follow instructions provided by the publisher.
Some publishers also provide RSS feeds for new journal content. Among them:
- You can set up customized "Keep Me Posted" alerts in SciFinder, Web of Science, PubMed, and many other index systems. These will run searches periodically and email you the new results.
- The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes three searchable current-awareness databases that offer graphical abstracts from selected journals:
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