ChemRefer is a service that allows searching of freely available and full-text chemical and pharmaceutical literature that is published by authoritative sources.
Features include basic and advanced search options,
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detailed view, an integrated chemical structure drawing and search tool, downloadable
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, customized
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feeds, and newsletter.
ChemRefer is primarily of use to readers who do not have subscriptions for accessing restricted chemical literature, and to publishers who offer either
open access or
hybrid open access journal
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s and seek to attract further subscriptions by publicly releasing part of their archive.
See also
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Google Scholar
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Windows Live Academic
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BASE
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PubMed
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Rowland Institute for Science
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Harvard University
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United States Naval Research Laboratory
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Mount Allison UniversityReview of ChemReferat Depth-First chemoinformatics magazine
by the Technology Research Portal, Belgium
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Background
at Reactive Reports chemistry magazine
by Professor Peter Suber, Earlham College
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