Databases Chemistry and Life Sciences
Search our selected discipline-specific reference and full text databases for journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and much more.
Agricola
Bibliographic information from the National Agricultural Library (NAL) on topics such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishing and food sciences.
Agris
Freely accessible international fact database produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with bibliographic information from all areas of agriculture, including related subjects such as forestry, animal husbandry, food sciences and many more.
Bloomsbury Food Library
Bloomsbury Food Library contains literature on food studies. It combines content from Bloomsbury and licensed content from partner publishers with specially-commissioned research and learning tools and image collections from institutions.
CAB Abstracts
The database covers the areas of agriculture and forestry, chemistry, nutrition, food technology and science, medicinal plants and pharmacology, biotechnology, environmental sciences and tourism.
Limited to 12 users at a time - please be sure to log out.
CAB Abstracts via CABI Digital Library
ChemSpider
Freely accessible database of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in which structural and related information on chemicals and medical active ingredients from both fee-based and free databases can be accessed via a single interface.
European Pharmacopoeia Online
Reference work of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission EDQM for the quality control of drugs in Europe. The database contains full-text versions of special and general monographs with all types of active substances used for pharmaceutical products.
Access only for ZHAW staff and students and after initial registration. To receive a registration link, please send an e-mail to e-medien.hsb@zhaw.ch.
European Pharmacopoeia Online can subsequently be used either directly via the website and/or be installed locally on a computer or USB stick. Additional offline installations are valid for 15 days.
FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts
Reference database with entries from journals on food sciences and technology as well as nutrition. Published by the International Food Information Service (UK).
Online Tutorial – FSTA on Ovid
Best Practice Guide for Literature Searches
GMP-Berater
GMP-Berater is the world’s largest reference work for quality management in the pharmaceutical industry. GMP stands for “good manufacturing practice” for pharmaceuticals. GMP-Berater combines ongoing updates of global regulations with recommendations from specialists from the world of practice.
Access information: Click on LOGIN in the top right to access. Limited to one user at a time – please be sure to LOGOUT.
GreenFile
Contains information on the impact of people on the environment and covers topics such as climate change, green building, environmental pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energies and recycling.
hortigate
Information service for professional horticulture. Consultants and researchers from across the Federal Republic of Germany publish up-to-date specialist information. The main topics covered are vegetable cultivation, floriculture and orcharding.
hortigate (access on the intranet – ZHAW login required)
KOSMET
Documents publications worldwide on the subject of cosmetics and perfumes, covering issues such as product development, medical aspects, retail, research and development, raw materials, ingredients, analytical methods, product safety, properties, packaging and packaging technology as well as clinical studies.
Access information: The complete text of the IFSCC Magazine is included. The full-text versions of contributions from IFSCC congresses and conferences are available after a one-year embargo. Should they be missing, the contributions in question can be reported to e-medien.hsb@zhaw.ch.
LIVIVO
LIVIVO is an interdisciplinary search engine for literature and information in the subject areas of medicine and healthcare as well as nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences.
It is provided by ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences. Scientifically relevant information on the ZB MED subject areas is consolidated and made available for free research via a uniform interface. References from practice-based journal articles from the former bibnet.org database, which was operated by a working group of the “Swiss Health Libraries Network” association, are also integrated.
OECD iLibrary
Portal for the online publications of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), providing access to all OECD studies and statistics. One of the largest online libraries for data and analyses on the economy, society and the environment.
All contents are licensed with the exception of the IEA statistics.
PubMed
Freely accessible database for medicine and biomedicine. Covers areas such as dentistry, pre-clinical subjects, healthcare, nursing and veterinary medicine as well as related areas including biology, biochemistry, psychology and sports medicine. The main component is the MEDLINE database, see other ZHAW accesses to the MEDLINE database.
Differences between MEDLINE and PubMed
Reaxys
The Reaxys chemistry database contains several million entries with information on chemical compounds, physical data, structures and reactions as well as patents from the fields of life sciences and chemistry. The database is updated weekly.
Swiss Food Composition Database
Contains information on the composition of food available in Switzerland. The database is operated by the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) and is freely accessible.
Complete information on macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein, fat) as well as water, alcohol and energy content is available for all foods included in the database.
Swiss food composition database
SciFinder-n
Contains references, substances and reactions from chemistry and related disciplines such as biochemistry and chemical engineering.
Access only possible for ZHAW members with EduID.
Springer Materials
Landolt-Börnstein database with numerical values and functions from the fields of physics, chemistry, technology and material science. In addition to the input of search terms, it is also possible to search for elements and their compounds via a periodic table and structure search. The corrosion rate of materials can also be researched.
USP–NF – United States Pharmacopeia and National Formulary
Contains the official compendia of requirements for pharmaceuticals, excipients, dietary supplements and other therapeutically used products for the US and various other countries.
Access to the new platform is limited to 20 users and is only possible for ZHAW staff and students after completing the initial registration process. To receive a registration link, please send an e-mail to e-medien.hsb@zhaw.ch.
VCF – Volatile Compounds in Food database
Contains information about published volatile compounds that can be found in natural (industrially processed) foods. Also contains FEMA GRAS and EU FLAVIS data.
Web of Science Core Collection
Web of Science Core Collection is a multidimensional database with a range of subjects including art, humanities, social sciences, medicine, natural sciences and technology.
Web of Science Core Collection
WISO
Database with various modules. Subscriptions are in place for the following:
Economics: references from German and international specialist literature on business administration and economics and their sub-fields.
Social sciences: references on social sciences, social work, social pedagogy, politics and international relations.
Specialist journals: full texts from journals in the fields of economics, social sciences, business psychology and technology.
WISO (German)
Instruction (German)