GUIDES TO ONLINE RESOURCES

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

I am Ahmad Faris Bin Hassan, liaison librarian for School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. This online guide is created purposely for the students and lecturers to navigate various resources which consist of databases, electronic journals, e-books and related links. I hope this information is useful for research, teaching and learning. If you find any online sources related to the subject, please inform me through e-mail ahmadfaris@notes.usm.my or my extension number 3722.

 

 

REFERENCE

 

ONLINE CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY

 

http://www.chemistry-dictionary.com/

It contains a vast collection of information pertaining to beginner, organic, atmospheric and medicinal chemistry help. We also have a collection of detailed periodic tables to help with lab projects or chemistry for kids. Soon we will be adding chemistry related articles to help find Chemistry industry jobs, education and equipment.

 

 

SUSCRIBED DATABASES

(Accessible via USM Library’s website www.lib.usm.my)

 

A-to-Z Journals

Use index or browse titles/subjects to find subscribed journals of your preference.

 

EBSCOhost

 

Academic Source Premier

Academic Source Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis.

 

Gale Databases

 

Academic OneFile

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

 

 

 

Index to Theses

 

A comprehensive collection of 555,303 theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

 

informaworld

 

Consists of publications of five publishers under Taylor & Francis Group for multidiscipline.

 

 

ISI Web of Knowledge

 

Web of Science

Web of Science consists of seven databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more.

The first three citation databases contain the references cited by the authors of the articles. You can use these references to do cited reference searching. This type of search allows you to find articles that cite a previously published work.

The two conference proceedings citation indexes include the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines. Use these databases to track emerging ideas and new research in specific fields.

The two chemistry databases allow you to create structure drawings to find chemical compounds and reactions. You can also search these databases for compound and reaction data.

Science Citation Index Expanded™ (SCI™ Expanded)

Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences.Fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.

Some of the disciplines covered include:

  • Agriculture
  • Astronomy
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science  
  • Materials Science 
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology
  • Pediatrics
  • Pharmacology
  • Physics
  • Plant Sciences
  • Psychiatry
  • Surgery
  • Veterinary Science
  • Zoology

 

Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)

This citation index covers conference literature in all scientific and technical fields, including:

  • Agriculture
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Physics

Current Chemical Reactions® (CCR® Expanded)

Current Chemical Reactions contains single- and multi-step new synthetic methods taken from leading journals and patents from 36 issuing authorities. The overall reaction flow is provided for each method, along with a detailed and accurate graphical representation of each reaction step.

Derwent Chemistry Resource

Derwent Chemistry Resource allows you to browse through the chemical structure database to develop new ideas on compound structure advances and to learn of new compounds that have hit the market.

Oxford University Press e-Journal Collection

The list of journals published by Oxford University Press including Chemistry subject.

ScienceDirect

A scientific database contains more than 10 million journal articles and book chapters.

Scopus

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

 

 

SpringerLink

SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers 2,524 fully peer-reviewed journals and 41,786 books online.

World Scientific Collection

World Scientific's consists of 136 international peer-reviewed journals for scientific journals in multi disciplines such as nanotechnology, biomedical science, computational science, life sciences banking and business, and business management. A total of 126 journals are in full text in PDF files. Abstracts are available in HTML format and can be accessed freely.

 

 

SUBSCRIBED ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

(Accessible via USM Library’s website www.lib.usm.my)

 

Crystallography Journals Online

Biochemical Journal

Journal of Chemical Education

Journal of Solution Chemistry

 

 

E-BOOKS

 

Elsevier eBooks

 

A collection of 1,185 titles of e-books in the subject of Chemistry, Material Science, Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology, Chemical Engineering, Medicine and Dentistry.

 

RSC eBooks

 

The RSC eBook Collection is a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences. Over 700 books spanning 40 years have been brought together, digitalized as PDF files and made fully searchable. The result is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science.

 

e-brary

A collection of more than 30,000 titles of e-books that USM Library subscribes and its subjects.

 

Springer e-books

This collection contains e-books in the subject of business & economics, earth & environmental science, humanities, social sciences and law.