ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys the more commonly used electronic databases and electronic dictionaries used by organic chemists to search the abstract and secondary literature. It explains the patent literature and provides advice on retrieving patents from patent databases. The chapter provides some useful reference books, review series and textbooks for organic chemist. The Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI) gives details of the journals and related literature cited in Chemical Abstracts since 1907. Reaxys is a web-based database of chemical information owned by Reed Elsevier. Synthetic Reaction Updates aims to present recent developments in synthetic methodology chosen from a selection of core organic chemistry literature. Google Scholar indexes and abstracts the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. ChemSpider provides fast text and structure search access to over 50 million structures collated from several hundred data sources. Searches may be carried out using systematic names, synonyms, trade names, database identifiers, or chemical structures.
