I’d second Michel’s suggestion of using just plain Google, but add that adding the restriction filetype:pdf can provide a site effective primary filter.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=metol+ Pudbmed can sometimes turn up interesting results without a specifically medical focus as well. The link I’ve placed here is for a search for Metol.

A each for “Density functional calculations” returns 80,000 results.

My other go-to data base site is

https://eric.ed.gov/ however that is primarily education related sources, so things like the journal of Chemical education might show up, but little else. As my primary research interest now is education, I use it a lot.

Best

Lawrence Cuffe

On 29 Apr 2024, at 15:22, Michel Petitjean petitjean.chiral]=[gmail.com <owner-chemistry^^^ccl.net> wrote:

Sent to CCL by: Michel Petitjean [petitjean.chiral-x-gmail.com]
Dear David,
You may have a look at semantic scholar
https://www.semanticscholar.org
But please do not ignore just Google (not the scholar one), which
points to a number of free resources ignored by Scholar Google, which
in turn may point to pertinent resouces.
Best regards,
Michel.
Michel Petitjean, retired scsientist
http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.html

Le lun. 29 avr. 2024 à 04:14, David Shobe shobedavid]=[gmail.com
<owner-chemistry ~ ccl.net> a écrit :

Apparently I was wrong: Google Scholar does have Boolean searching, but Google doesn't want you to know about it! In fact, searching with Chrome led to a crash. (Coincidence? Who knows?) But I found information on a different browser.

For the record, use & for and and | for or.

I'd still like to know about alternatives though.

--David Shobe

On Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 5:05 PM David Shobe shobedavid/agmail.com <owner-chemistry,,ccl.net> wrote:

As I mentioned on a different thread, I have, as far as I know, only Google Scholar for literature searching. I do not have an affiliation with an organization (such as a university) that would have an institutional subscription to something like STN or Reaxys.   I don't have a lot of money either. Do I have any other options besides Google Scholar?

--David Shobe

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