Research Guides: Chemistry
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- American Chemical Society Electronic Journals
- Online access to journals from ACS Publications, the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research in the chemical and related sciences.
- SciFinder
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From Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), "SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!" Included are articles from such journals as Journal of Supramolecular Chemistry, Current Nanoscience, Journal of Forensic Sciences, and American Pharmaceutical Review .
Create a New SciFinder Account - Coverage: 1840 - present, updated daily
- Facts on File: Today's Science
- "Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today." Features include "Science in the Headlines," "Issues & Controversies in Science," "Curriculum Tools," and suggestions for research topics.
- ScienceDirect
- Among the three collections that comprise the College Edition of ScienceDirect is Physical Sciences & Engineering , which brings together over 730 journals (such as Journal of Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry, Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine, Journal of Chemical Education, and Chemical Engineering Science ) to deliver cutting edge information in the areas of chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, information technology, energy, and more.
- Scirus
- Scirus refers to itself as "the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 350 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content [from titles such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Forensic Science International, Accounts of Chemical Research, and Chemical Engineering Journal ] but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information."
- Scopus
- Scopus is a large abstract and citation database which covers 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 international publishers. Included are such titles as Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Reviews, Journal of Organic Chemistry, and Journal of the American Chemical Society . Scopus also covers 386 million quality web sources, including 22 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.
- Coverage: 1841 - present, updated bimonthly
- E-Journals
- Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for journals managed through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS). Includes more than 1500 chemistry-related journals, including Supramolecular Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Pharmaceutics, and Science & Justice .
- Academic Search Premier
- Contains full text articles from nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. Over 600 chemistry journals are included, such as, Tetrahedron Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry (A&B), Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Analysis , and Food Chemistry .
- Applied Science & Technology Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
- Features graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey data from scientific and technical articles covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Journals covered include Chemical Engineering, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry , and Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society .
- Coverage: Indexing 1983 - present
Abstracting 1993 - present
Full text 1997 - present - Government Periodicals Index
- Index to articles published by agencies of the U.S. government. Publications include Forensic Science Communications, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Toxicogenomics, and CML: Army Chemical Review.
- Coverage: 1988 - present
- Government Periodicals Index Tutorials
- General Science Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
- Indexes articles on a variety of science-related information, from such publications as Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Foundations of Chemistry, Journal of Environmental Health, and Trends in Biochemical Sciences. Designed for students and non-specialists.
- Coverage: 1984 - present, updated monthly
- General Science Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) Tutorials
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