Chemistry

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DATABASES

Academic Search Complete (more info)

Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

ACS Journals Search (more info)

Description: ACS is a searchable index of all American Chemical Society publications. Copies of articles not owned by the Meredith library may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan.
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Creator: The American Chemical Society

Dissertations and Theses (more info)

Description: A database from OCLC that provides access to over 8 million records of dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members in all subjects areas.

Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

PubChem (more info)

Description: PubChem is organized as 3 linked databases: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem Assay. PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.

Component of: NIH's Molecular Libraries Initiative

PubMed (more info)

Description: Provides access to over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and books. Citations include the fields of medicine, nursing, chemical sciences, nutrition, dentistry, the health care system, behavioral sciences, and other related disciplines. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources. Coverage is world-wide but most records are from English language sources.

Alternate Name: Medline
Date Coverage 1950 - date
Note: Use the Pubmed Overview Sheet or the PubMed Tutorial for more information.
Developed by: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

PubMed Central (more info)

Description: PubMed Central (PMC) is a digital archive for peer reviewed primary research reports in biomedical, chemistry and the life sciences. The PMC Open Access subset includes articles from a number of publishers' programs, each of which deposits selected articles from a range of journals. A complete list of the publisher programs, with links to the articles can be found on the Special Collections tab of the PMC Journals List.

Date Coverage: Early 1900's - date Developed by: NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

SpringerLink (more info)

Description: SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books and eReferences published by Springer. Subject collections include:Architecture & Design,Behaviora lScience, Biomedical & Life Science, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Science & Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, and Professional & Applied Computing.

Vendor & Publisher: Springer

Web of Knowledge (more info)

Description: This collection of databases offers a cross-searchable platform for research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Web of Science can be cross searched on the ISI Web of Knowledge interface with Medlilne (1950 - date), the (US) National Library of Medicine’s premier database of biomedical records and abstracts, which includes content from approximately 4,900 worldwide journals in 30 languages, plus a small number of relevant items from newspapers, magazines, and newsletters.

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Alternate Name: ISI Web of Knowledge, WOK
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters
Date Coverage: 1988 - date

Web of Science (more info)

Description: The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidiscciplinary information from approximately 8,500 high impact research journals. These multidisciplinary databases may be searched independently or in any combination. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching. With cited reference searching users can follow a particular author or cited reference forward in time to find more current articles. Web of Science can be cross searched on the ISI Web of Knowledge interface with Medlilne (1950 - date).

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Alternate Name: ISI Web of Science, Web of Knowledge, WOS
Note: For search help you may access: Web of Science tutorial or Web-Based Training.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

Wiley Online Library (more info)

Description: Wiley Online Library provides full text access to a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities published by Wiley Blackwell. A quality collection of peer reviewed journals; Wiley Online Library hosts many of the core journal titles in their respective fields. Use the Subject List to access a list of subject areas and titles.

Note: We do not have access to all content in Wiley Online Library.
Vendor: Wiley Blackwell

ENCYCLOPEDIAS & MORE

Access Science (more info)

Description: AccessScience provides online and fully searchable science reference materials. The database includes all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.

Vendor: McGraw-Hill

Credo Reference (more info)

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

Chemistry Dictionaries

HANDBOOKS & TABLES

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (more info)

Description: Annual compilation of physical constants, properties of common inorganic and organic compounds, and much more. Consult their help system for advice on browsing, searching, and using interactive tables.

Note: Print edition available (R541.9 H19 2004 - 2005).
Vendor: CRC Press

Knovel Critical Tables (more info)

Description: This edition has over 40 new interactive tables which include new tables covering 503 Heat Capacity and Thermal Conductivity, 3,133 Reaction Thermodynamics and Equilibrium Constants, 854 Density and Compressibility, 13,332 Vaporization and Vapor Pressure, 185 Thermal Expansion, 377 Transport and Flow, and 1902 Electrical Properties data.

Website: Knovel Corporation

Smithsonian Physical Tables (more info)

Description: This database comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Knovel undertook the conversion of this publication into full-text searchable electronic format that makes the data easily accessible. (Source: Vendor website)

Publisher: Knoval Corp.

To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, select the tab Books & Media on the Library website.

To browse the stacks for chemistry books, go to:

540 Chemistry and allied sciences
543 Analytical chemistry
546 Inorganic chemistry
547 Organic chemistry

Books & more from the Meredith library & beyond

WorldCat (more info)

Description: WorldCat is a catalog of the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and includes over a billion records. The database includes bibiographic records for books, dissertations, manuscripts, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books, music, digital objects, websites and more. WorldCat can serve as an invaluable research tool to facilitate comprehensive searches for resources on a particular subject or by a particular author, allowing you to identify relevant works beyond your local library. Resources not available at your library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Contact the Reference Department if you have any questions about using WorldCat.

Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

WorldCat Local (more info)

Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.

Vendor: OCLC

E-BOOKS

Many books are available electronically. You may identify them by selecting the Books & Media tab on the Library website and selecting the e-books link, or by using one of the following collections of e-books.

eBook Collection (more info)

Description: eBook Collection from EBSCOhost provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. In many cases, the eBook copy is the only copy of the book owned by the library although in some cases a local print copy is also available.

Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. Vendor: EBSCOhost

ebrary (more info)

Description: Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas

MyiLibrary e-books (more info)

Description: MyiLibrary contains over 350 books that can be read online. Books are available on a variety of topics, including language learning, medical, health, history, project management, classic literature, art, criminology and many others.

Vendor: Ingram

CAS Tutorial
From: American Chemical Society
A self-paced training module designed to teach the basics of searching STN online for references to scientific and technical documents.

Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.

American Chemical Society
Chemjobs, WWW links, educational resources for k-8, high school, college.

NIST Chemistry WebBook
From: The National Institute of Standards and Technology

The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
From: The National Institute of Standards and Technology

Royal Society of Chemistry

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