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    Chemistry Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books in Chemistry: 540-549; Chemical Engineering: 660-669.

    Databases with Full-Text Chemistry Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • arXiv.org
      • Searchable archive and distribution server for research papers. Covers physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
    • DOE Information Bridge (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
      • Search Department of Energy research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
      • 1995 onwards.
    • EnergyFiles (U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI))
      • Information on energy science and technology, with emphasis on the physical sciences.
    • GrayLIT Network (U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI))
      • Portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects. Excellent site.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • National Academy Press
      • Search or browse over 1,500 books online in science, engineering, health, and technology, including the physical sciences.
    • Science Direct
      • Full-text articles from a variety of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals. Covers many scientific areas including chemistry and biochemistry.

    Individual Chemistry Periodicals with Full Text

    Chemistry Indexes with Citations

    • E-print Network (U.S. Dept. of Energy's OSTI)
      • Search one or a collection of existing preprint servers that deal with physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine.
    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • General Science Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes journals and magazines covering astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.
      • 5/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format: 6/1978 to 5/1991; (Call number: Index 500 G326).
    • Wiley Interscience
      • Search all John Wiley & Sons' journals, 1996 to present.
      • Citations and abstracts only.
    • Science Online - Search Multiple Journals
      • Search a number of journals from 1965 to present in:
        biochemistry, cell and molecular biology; microbiology and virology; immunology; neurosciences and neurobiology; physiology; plant sciences; other life sciences; clinical medicine; medical research; cardiovascular medicine; psychiatry and psychology; physical sciences; and social sciences.
      • citations with some abstracts and full text.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.

    General Resources

    • chemsoc (Chemistry Societies Network)
      • Information from about 30 national chemistry societies disseminated on a single site.
    • Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry (Eric Weisstein)
      Alphabetical entries. Searchable.
    • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Ed. David R. Lide.
      • (Call number: R 540.2 C517)
      • Properties of the elements and inorganic compounds, plus much more.

    Periodic Table of Elements

    • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Ed. David R. Lide.
      • (Call number: R 540.2 C517)
      • Properties of the elements and inorganic compounds, plus much more.
    • The Elements. 3rd edition. John Emsley. Oxford University Press, 1998.
      • (Call number: R 546 E55 1998)
      • Properties of the elements. Earlier editions in the general circulating collection.
    • Periodic Table of the Elements (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • Properties and uses of elements, and a short introduction to the Periodical Table and terms. Good, quick information. Searchable.
    • Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements (chemsoc)
    • WebElements, the periodical table on the WWW (Mark Winter, University of Sheffield, England)
      • Structures and properties of elements, including images. Excellent site.
    • More Periodic Tables (About.com)