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Articles and More From Journals, Newspapers, and Online Reference Resources
SUBJECT: Chemistry
Recommended starting places - Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
(reference resource, e-book)
Includes articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, thousands of illustrations, Science News headlines, biographies, and more.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
(reference resource, e-book)
Provides broad coverage of all types of physical science data commonly encountered
by scientists and engineers.
Oxford Reference Online - Dictionary of Chemistry
(reference resource, e-books)
Polymers: A Property Database
(reference resource)
Provides scientific and commercial information on polymers.
Properties of Organic Compounds
(reference resource)
Contains over 29,000 of the most commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures.
Recommended starting places - Article Indexes for Chemistry and Related Sciences
American Chemical Society Publications
(article index)
The ACS Publications web site includes access to an article search feature and a title list of the ACS journals, as well as full-text access to articles.
ScienceDirect
(article index)
1993-present. Over 1,800 full text journals in the areas of science, technology, and medicine. Full text coverage for all titles goes back to 1995; coverage for IDEAL titles goes back to 1993.
SciFinder Scholar
(article index)
Chemical Abstracts online. Available in the Michener Library Reference area; not available remotely through the web. See the online guide for search tips, training resources, and further information about SciFinder Scholar.
Social Sciences Citation Index - Web of Science (ISI)
(article index)
1979-present. Offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines. Often used as a citation analysis tool.
Recommended starting places - General Article Indexes
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
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Google Scholar
(article index, e-books, free non-subscription resource)
Google Scholar, currently in development, searches for scholarly materials (peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles) from sources such as academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities.
Organic Syntheses
(reference resource, free non-subscription resource)
Database of synthesis procedures.
Windows Live Academic Search
(article index, free non-subscription resource)
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names article abstracts, and conference proceedings. (currently in beta version)
Research Guides
- Science Research Guide, including Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics (LibGuide)
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