Chemistry Subject Guide

Article Databases

15 resources available
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SciFinder Scholar  This extensive chemistry index supplies abstracts of journal articles, conferences, dissertations, technical reports, patents, substance records, formula, structure and reaction searching. Covers all aspects of chemistry including chemical engineering, environmental science, pharmacology, medicine, and food science. Coverage from 1907-date. Updated daily.

One-time registration is required for Web-access. Web-based access is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

ACS Web Editions  Searchable collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed journals and magazines published by the American Chemical Society.

More Chemistry Indexes
In alphabetical order.

Current Chemical Reactions

A guide to new and newly modified reactions and syntheses reported in current organic chemistry and pharmaceutical science journals.
Coverage: 1979-present. Updated: monthly.
Call Number: QD71 .C87x
Location: Waldo Library Current Periodicals, and Waldo Library Stacks More info

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management  Multidisciplinary index with abstracts of journals, conference proceedings, reports, books and government publications in the environmental sciences. Coverage: 1967- present. Updated monthly.

• RefWorks Info: Imports checked citations directly into RefWorks.

General Science Abstracts 
Indexes more than 160 leading science journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain. Includes such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth science, medicine and health. Coverage: 1984 - present, abstracts from 1993. Updated monthly.

Index Chemicus
Abstracts and index to articles that contain first time reports of synthesis isolation or identification of new compounds.
Call number: QD 1 .I53 (current issues in the Current Periodicals area on the Lower Level in Waldo)
Coverage: 1960-date. Updated: weekly.

InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold 
An index of general interest articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books on all subjects. Many entries provide full-text and images. Coverage: 1980-present.

Paperchem  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.

Medline Plus  Health information from the National Library of Medicine presented accessibly for professionals and non-professionals.

PubMed  Is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Free citations and abstracts, limited full text. Coverage: 1966 - present. Updated weekly.

Tips for using PubMed effectively are found in the NLM PubMed tutorial and UFL PubMed tutorial.

Science Direct  Database for scientific research that contains the citations and abstracts of more than 1,800 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences as well as selected full text articles. Science Direct can be searched as a database or browsed by individual title. Coverage varies.

Scopus  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  Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work.   Tutorial

Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database.

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

Wilson Select Plus  Index to full text articles in science, humanities, social sciences, education and business. The index includes records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage: 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.

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