Reaxys gives access to a single database of organic, inorganic and organo-metallic chemistry data.
Reaxys is the successor to CrossFire, which is also available under this agreement until the end of 2010.
Content description
Reaxys is a web-based system for searching the world's most extensive collection of organic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry data. Reaxys enables you to search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data.
Being based on the CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases Reaxys has a long history beginning with chemical data from 1771. The information you find in Reaxys originates from around 3800 journals and patents from various patent offices. Reaxys has become unmatched as a source for deeply indexed information, especially for experimental reaction data. It aims at most efficiently supporting a chemist with relevant, validated facts and figures or procedure texts.
The content in Reaxys comes from the following sources:
- The Beilstein Handbook
- The Gmelin Handbook
- Selected literature from 1772 to today
- Organic chemistry and Life Science patents from US (since 1976), World and European (since 1978) patent publications.
Main subject areas
Beilstein database:
Core subject is organic chemistry, but also covers:
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Biochemistry
- Pharmacy
- Pharmacology
- Medicinal chemistry
- Toxicology
- Physiology
- Ecology
- Environmental science
- Geology
- Mineralogy
- Metallurgy
- Materials science
Academic level
Postgraduate (though also used in undergraduate teaching).
Date range
1771 to date.
Updates
Monthly
Publisher's selection policy
TBC
Cost
Subscription
Reaxys is available to anyone from an HE, FE or Research Council in the United Kingdom.
The agreement will be for two years, running from 1st November 2009 to 31st October 2011. Institutions can subscribe at any time, and can opt-out of the agreement on 31st October 2010, after giving JISC Collections 60 days notice.
For details of how to subscribe and the Licence, see http://jisc-restricted.mimas.ac.uk/reaxys/reaxys_how2.html. You must be within the relevant IP domain in order to access the page.
Functionality and standards compliance
Full text linking
Full text linking to journal articles and patents is provided by Elsevier's in-built resolver. Subscribing institutions can also specify their own OpenURL Resolver.
Metadata standards
TBC
Usage statistics
TBC
Authentication
Authentication is by IP range. Authentication via the UK Access Management Federation will be available in the first quarter of 2010.
Personalisation of the online resource
Hitsets can be saved. Reaxys has an email alerting facility which can be set up to run a query whenever a database update occurs.
Accessibility
TBC
Library support information