Databases

The scientific databases allow you to search for precise articles that interest you. The library subscribes to these databases:

• Web of Science
• Web of Science (WOS) is a multidisciplinary bibliographic / citation database. Search over 18,000 international journals and 180,000 conference proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities to find high-quality results that are more relevant to your area of interest. You can link the findings and deepen the topic relationships between articles, established by experienced researchers in the field.
• Scopus
• Scopus is a large database of abstracts and bibliographic citations of peer-reviewed scientific literature: scientific journals, monographs and conference proceedings. An overview of the production of research in the scientific, technological, medical, social, humanistic and artistic fields.
• MathSciNet                                                                                                      This is the bibliographic database that indexes the most significant production of scientific literature in the mathematical field, providing reviews of journal articles, conference proceedings and books. It allows you to search by authors, titles and title words of articles from mathematical and statistical journals.
• SciFinder-n                                                                                               SciFinder-n is a research database that allows you to access the most complete and authoritative sources of bibliographic references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related subjects.  Instructions for access to SciFinder: if you already have an account. If you are logging in for the first time, you will find the instructions for the first login below.
• CCDC  (Cambridge Cristallographic data centre) the most up-to-date crystal structure database. The new release 2022.1 is available.
• UpToDate: Wolters Kluwer's evidence-based clinical decision support resource with content curated by a team of physicians, whose primary goal is to help healthcare professionals make the best decisions for care quickly of the patient. Access instructions are available.

There are other open access databases available on the web:

• Base edited by the university library of Bielefeld (Germany), is the richest search engine for scientific-academic resources. Base indexes all academic resources that use an OAI-PMH protocol for data interoperability and the provision of open access content.
• BioRxiv  (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive of unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is managed by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a non-profit research and training organisation.
• CHEMIDPlus Advanced is a database with information on more than 380,000 chemical compounds (synonyms, structures, properties and links to other National Library of Medicine databases).
• CITESEER: digital library and computer-related search engine. Promote the dissemination of algorithms, data, metadata. Techniques and software through new methods of indexing and research on the web.
• CNR SOLAR Scientific Open-access Literature Archive and Repository (CNR SOLAR) is a database of scientific publications aimed at creating an archive of Italian science and research products, also making use of the legal deposit of publications in digital format.
• eMOLECULES: The purpose of eMolecules® is to discover, process and index all public information relating to chemistry in the world and make it available free to the public. Research is done instantly on more than 5 million chemical facilities featured by more than 140 major chemical suppliers (Acros, ASINEX, ChemBridge, ChemDiv, Comgenex, Enamine, Fluka, Key Organics, Life Chemicals, Maybridge, Otava, Sigma- Aldrich, Specs et al).
• EPO  is a free database made available by the European Patent Office. You can search by keywords, classification system or patent number.
• Plant Information Online: is a meta-engine, which searches for detailed information on a database that can sometimes be on paper, sometimes online for a fee or open access. The contents are edited by the Magrath Library and the Horticultural Library of the University of Minnesota.
• Protein Data Bank: this archive contains experimentally determined information on the structure of proteins, amino acids and complex molecules.
• PubMed is a service offered by the U.S. Library of Medicine. PubMed includes over 33 million citations and scientific and medical journal articles.
• Science Hack: scientific video database and search engine, selected by Science Hack and accompanied by a short description.