Scientific databases
These databases cover single or multiple topics within sciences.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowLarge abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
- Biosis Citation Index This link opens in a new windowLife sciences and biomedical research database covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
Clinical Trials registries
- ClinicalTrials.gov This link opens in a new windowRegistry and results database; includes information about publicly & privately funded studies including; completed & ongoing trials, research design, results, and contact information.
- WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform This link opens in a new windowCentral database with access to clinical trial data sets from international trial registries around the world.
- Health Sciences Grey Literature GuideThis guide includes additional clinical trials registries from around the world.
Chemistry Literature Databases
These databases provide access to peer-reviewed journal articles on chemistry, chemical structures, and experimental and theoretically-derived tables of standards and properties for chemicals and drugs.
- SciFinder This link opens in a new windowArticles, patents, and white papers describing chemicals. Includes information on structures, reactions, compounds, drug development, and manufacturing. Requires separate login. Go to USC's create an account page to register.
- Reaxys This link opens in a new windowA chemistry database consisting of deeply excerpted compounds and related factual properties, reaction and synthesis information as well as bibliographic data, navigated and displayed via an actionable interface.
- PubChem This link opens in a new windowRepository of chemical data focusing on biological activities of small molecules. Find physical, biological, and chemical properties, and relationships to health and disease.
- DrugBank This link opens in a new windowCombines chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical data with comprehensive drug targeting information.
Specialized databases for regulatory sciences
- MedDRA (Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities)Dictionary/thesaurus of standardized international terminology used to describe drug regulatory activities.
- United States Pharmacopeia and National Formulary (USP-NF) byCall Number: Norris Medical Library, Reference, QV 738 AA1 P536 2016Requires personal registration to access online.
1. Visit the main USPNF site at https://online.uspnf.com/uspnf
2. Click “create a new USP Access Point account.”
3. Sign up with your USC email address (this will be your username), put University of Southern California as your company, and select Academic & Research as your industry. Leave the Subscription Key field blank.
4.You will get an email and need to verify your account by clicking the link.
- Techstreet standards This link opens in a new windowTechstreet provides access to standards and technical information from major publishers. Subscribed documents are available in PDF format and can be downloaded to your personal computer. Currently, USC subscribes to selected documents from ASCE, ASHRAE, ASME, IEC, ISEA, ISO, SAE. Downloaded documents can only be read using Adobe Acrobat with the FileOpen add-on. Both are available on the Techstreet website.
