SciFinder-n is a comprehensive source of information on chemical substances and technology, produced by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), with access to chemical names, structures, properties, spectra, and reactions for more than 196 million organic and inorganic substances and approximately 70 million protein and nucleic acid sequences, as well as coverage of 10,000+ current and historical journals, patents from 64 patent issuing authorities. Commercial chemical supplier and regulatory information is also available.
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Date Coverage: 1907 - present; 100,000+ selected publications from the early 1800s through 1907.
Inspec is a multidisciplinary database covering the literature of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, mechanical and production engineering, communications and computing dating back to 1896.
As of 2016, it contained more than 16 million records; 800,000+ records are added each year. Inspec currently indexes more than 4,000 journals, 14,000 book series, 70,000 conferences and thousands of dissertations, reports, patents, and videos. Records are indexed using terms from the Inspec Thesaurus.
