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ASM Medical Materials Database This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed database providing properties and biological response data for the biomedical materials used in cardiovascular, orthopaedic, surgical, neurological, urological, and ENT medical device design.
ACS Publications This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of full-text publications published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading publisher in the chemical and related sciences. The collection includes journals and e-books.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Citation index of diverse, scholarly information from across the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Also includes search and analysis tools to enhance this content.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
SciFinderⁿ This link opens in a new window
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Platform provides articles, patents, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations in chemistry and related disciplines. Search by substance name, structure, substructure, reaction, CAS registry number, molecular formula, organization, research topic, and author.

No guest access to this database is allowed. Access is limited to current CWRU affiliates only.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Provides a search engine and index to citations and abstracts for life sciences and biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database. Other databases available include the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus of terminology, and numerous nucleic acid and protein sequence libraries. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central (public access) and external databases to which CWRU subscribes.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, reference works, protocols, and other documents across a range of disciplines, with greatest emphasis in STEM fields.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Platform that provides access to journal articles and e-books from across a wide range of disciplines, predominantly scientific, technical, and medical.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, reference works, protocols, and other documents across a range of disciplines in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

How to Access an Article

Some articles may be readily available fulltext from the index you searched in. Use LibKey Nomad browser extension that simplifies and streamlines access to the Kelvin Smith Library's subscription resources.

LibKey Nomad This link opens in a new window
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that automatically provides instant links to articles from journals subscribed to by CWRU Libraries – and Open Access sources – connecting you to literature discovered on the web.
CWRU eJournal Portal This link opens in a new window
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.

To access articles that are not available online, first the catalog to check whether we have it available in print in the library, and, if still not available, use the interlibrary loans service.

CWRU Online Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
When the journal of interest is not available in electronic format, search the catalog in case the journal is available in print.
Pay attention to coverage to the coverage dates to make sure that the article of interest is included.

Interlibrary Loan Services
When the journal is not available neither in print or in digital format, you may order a copy of the article of interest using the Interlibrary Loan Services.

Where to search for journals & E-journals

CWRU Online Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Contains records for all print and digital holdings of CWRU and affiliated libraries.
CWRU eJournal Portal This link opens in a new window
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center, EJC This link opens in a new window
Provides access to electronic journals available through OhioLINK.