Chemistry Subject Guide

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Indexes

    General

Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.


Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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    Subject

MEDLINE, the primary index of the National Library of Medicine, provides citations and abstracts to authoritative medical information covering medicine, pathology, toxicology, psychiatry, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts and MeSH Headings from thousands of scholarly journals. MEDLINE is available in several versions, with each one offering specific features and distinct search formats:


Medline with MeSH from Ebsco Search by Author, Abstract, Core Concept, Core Word, Gene Symbol, MeSH Word, MeSH Heading, and more. Offers special limiters for research on humans, with subsets on gender and age groups, or on animals, with a subset on specific animals.

The National Library of Medicine offers links to MEDLINE through: PubMed and NLM Gateway. These are free sites open to anyone.

SciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that students and faculty may use to discover a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. The Scifinder Scholar software is available on campus only, in the following locations:

Abell Library Center First Floor Computer Lab

Abell Library Center Extended Study Room

Abell Library Center Instructional Classroom

Coffee House Lab

Temple Lab

All Dorm Labs

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location.

E-Sources

    Journals

AAPG Datapages Datapages provides access to publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation (AAPG). Access the AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Gulf Coast Group (USA), Journal of Petroleum Geology, to name a few. Browse AAPG books, and browse AAPG Explorer. This online subscription is provided to the students and faculty of Austin College through the AAPG Foundation Digital Products Fund, by an endowment established by Robert J. and Elizabeth Lee Dean Ardell (1974).

American Chemical Society Journals The full-text of the American Chemical Society's journals are available can be searched.

ScienceDirect ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier Science journals to one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature.

SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including chemistry (formerly Kluwer Journals).

Wiley Journals covering Chemistry and in full-text.

 

    Reference Works

Chemistry: A Select Guide to Resources at Austin College, Abell Library
compiled by Douglas M. Campbell, Reference Librarian.

    Books

netLibrary collection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

You are allowed to print one page at a time using your Web browser's print function or the print function on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar. Printing the entire eContent item violates copyright laws and precautions are taken to protect those copyright laws.

About the Catalog

Search in Abell Library's Catalog Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.

Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

• Biochemistry
• Chemical kinetics
• Chemistry, Inorganic
• Chemistry, Organic

Internet Sites

• ChemFinder is a quick fact-finding database. It is searchable by chemical name, molecular formula, molecular weight, CAS registry number, and chemical structure. It offers free download for ChemDraw, a structure drawing software. There is a list of the sites indexed, a glossary of terms used and answers to frequently asked questions.

• ChemiPlus online interactive periodic table.

• Chemweb.com access is through free membership. Its features include free structure searching, live 3D molecules, full-text searching in many trade and society journals, conferences and meetings information, and a browsable Web index. Full-text access to some journals is fee based. In the "people and news" section, users can attend virtual lectures, find a job, advertise for staff, and contact other members. This site also offers Beilstein abstracts free to its members.

• Chemistry Preprint is a permanent Web archive and distribution medium for research articles in the field of chemistry and allied sciences. Modeled after the Los Alamos preprint server, it is recognized by open archive and delivered by Chemweb.com.

• Chemical Industry Supplier Registry Manual compilation of chemical suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers for price and capacity of commodity and specialty chemicals by name or CAS registry number. Site includes new projects, free magazines, jobs, news and events.

• Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results.
  
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  • Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei - translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio in 1914 and now available as an electronic text.

  • Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards is useful for safety managers, chemists, and engineers alike, helps both small and large companies identify, address, and manage chemical reactivity hazards. Free distribution of this book on www.knovel.com has been made possible by the Center for Chemical Process Safety, US Occupational Safety and Health Administration, US Environmental Protection Agency, American Chemistry Council, Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, and Knovel Corporation.

  • International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology - 7 volumes and index - (first electronic edition). ICT offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering.

  • knovel Critical Tables is a brand new reference featuring tables of properties for commonly used chemical compounds in the physical properties tables. kCT has expanded the original 6,000 chemical compounds in the physical properties tables of International Critical Tables to more than 13,000 compounds.

  • Smithsonian Critical Tables (9th revised edition) Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Requires Adobe Acrobat.

  • Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables Edited by Abramowitz and Stegun, this handbook has been designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems.

• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs have been published since 1877, and are "brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work". They provide "a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States.

• National Institute of Standards Chemistry Webbook This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.

• Organic Synthesis Organic Syntheses provides the chemistry community with annual collections of detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Some procedures explain practical methods for preparing specific compounds of interest. Other procedures show significant synthetic methods with general utility. Each procedure is written in considerable detail and each reaction and all characterization data has been carefully "checked" for reproducibility in the laboratory.

• Periodic Table of the Elements

• Eprint Network is a set of powerful tools that facilitate access to and use of scientific and technical e-prints communicating the results of a wide range of research activities of interest to the Department of Energy.

• R&D Chemicals is a free service that allows to find a chemical by its molecular formula, IUPAC name, common name, CAS number, catalog number, substructure or physical characteristics as well as chemical suppliers.
  

• Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry (SIRCh) is an extensive collection of prime chemistry Internet resources compiled and maintained by Gary Wiggins of Indiana University.

• SDBS – Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds. Offers free access to six different spectra. The spectra are EI mass, 1H decoupled 13C NMR, 1H NMR pattern (90 and/or 400 MHz), 1H NMR parameter (300 MHz pattern generated), FT-IR, laser-Raman, and ESR. Download is limited to 50 per day. The National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research of Tokyo, Japan, the producer of this database, measured most of the spectra. There are almost 100,000 spectra information in the database.

• Thermodex is an index of selected thermodynamic data handbooks. This site contains records for printed handbooks and compilations of thermodynamic and thermophysical data for chemical compounds. Type of compound and/or property could be used to search, and the database will return a list of handbooks that might contain the data. ThermoDex is based primarily on the holdings of the Mallet Chemistry Library at the University of Texas at Austin.

• TOXLINE - Web Access, 1965 - present. (National Library of Medicine) Updated monthly. Collection of online bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Contains more than 2.5 million bibliographic citations, most with abstracts, indexing terms and CAS Registry Numbers.

• Links for Chemists The Chemistry Section of the Wide Web Virtual Library
  

About the Department

Chemistry Department

    Citing Sources

Select from a variety of Style Manuals, especially the following book on Reserve and in Reference:

• QD 8.5.A25 1997 The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors

• Reference Style Guidelines from the American Chemical Society