The search term in a citation database can be the citation to a known journal article. This type of search will provide a list of articles that used this paper as a reference. Databases Structure databases contain information on the structure of a chemical substance. This information may include a graphic representation of the structure, the molecular formula, compound name, and other information used to define the substance, Search terms in structure databases can be structures, names, as well as other information such as number or size of rings. CrossFire Reaction Databases Reaction databases contain information on chemical reactions.
Search terms can include structures, reaction sites, solvents, and other reaction data.
Full text databases contain the entire text of a document, not just the bibliographic citation. These databases may contain journals, handbooks, newspapers, or encyclopedias. Every word in these documents is a potential search term. Numeric Databases Numeric databases contain data extracted from a source document, or a data collection. Directory Databases Directory databases contain information on companies, people, or products.