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Article Indexes

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Paperchem restricted Part of Engineering Village 2., Paperchem covers the literature of the pulp, paper and paperboard industries, as well as such allied industries as packaging, chemicals, and equipment. Coverage is from 1966 to the present with over 12,000 records added annually.

Treesearch - Forest Service Research
This is an online database to forestry research conducted by scientists in the USDA Forest Service. It indexes government books, journal articles, conference papers and other types of research papers. All the material in this database is freely available in full-text format, usually in Adobe Acrobat PDF. Material is constantly being added and will eventually go back many years. 


Librarian's Comment: A lot of this material is relevant to paper and printing chemistry because many of the articles deal with wood and the properties of wood.

Ei Compendex restricted The most comprehensive index for scholarly research in engineering and applied science. Includes conference papers and foreign language material. Coverage 1969-present, updated weekly.
Available through Engineering Village 2.
A handy guide to this database is located here.

SciFinder Scholar restricted Online access to the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. This extensive chemistry index supplies abstracts of journal articles, conferences, dissertations, technical reports, patent references, substance records, substructure, formula and reaction searching. Covers all aspects of chemistry including chemical engineering, environmental science, pharmacology, medicine, and food science. Coverage from 1907-date. Updated daily. Personal access requires client download restricted to WMU community. Also available via terminals in Science Reference, Waldo Library.

Librarian's Comment: Personal desktop access requires downloading and using the proprietary SciFinder Scholar client software. Available in Science reference area, Waldo Library.

Scopus restricted Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)

Web of Science restricted Web of Science from the ISI Web of Knowledge contains three major databases covering all areas of knowledge: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). The literature can be searched by subject, author, journal title, and author's address. Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work. Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".

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