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... these sources can help you find evidence to answer you question or validate/invalidate an answer.

Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder-n) This link opens in a new window
BEST source; provides in-depth coverage of the scholarly research literature published worldwide in all areas of chemistry.
WebCSD This link opens in a new window
Database of bibliographic, chemical, and crystallographic information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds, provided by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, the world's repository of small molecule crystal structures.
Biological Science / Agricultural & Environmental Science Database/MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Search these 3 databases at the same time.
Grinnell College Libraries This link opens in a new window
Books, media, websites, databases, artwork, and more.
TOXNET This link opens in a new window
1965–present. Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and related areas, maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Before 1000 BCE to the present. Catalog of millions of books, web resources, and other materials held in libraries worldwide, maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). The best way to identify resources beyond Grinnell College's collections.

Science Primary Literature
BETTER source; includes articles and book chapters that have been used and cited by multiple Grinnell students plus have been highly cited in the scientific literature.
Ground Water & Drinking Water
From the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
TOXLINE
United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
A guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications.
UniProt
Full-text search option; for finding the molecular weight of proteins, along with other data.
Sequence Retrieval System
For searching across multiple databases in Biochemistry including SWISS PROT and BLAST; allows searching of proteins by molecular weight and other characteristics.
SciFinder: Exporting to Mendeley and EndNote
From the University of Michigan
ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information
An established and definitive source within and beyond the chemistry community, educating researchers on how to effectively communicate scientific information.
ACS journals search
BETTER source; the full text of articles from 50+ journals published by the American Chemical Society from the very first issues to the present.
Entrez: The Life Sciences Search Engine
A search system created by the National Center for Biotechnology Information to search its major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.
BLAST
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether the query is protein or DNA.
ChemIDplus
Online chemical identification resource maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Provides comprehensive information about chemical substances from over 70 chemical databases.
TOXLINE
USGS Water Resources Data of the United States
Provides access to water-resources data collected at nearly two million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.