GUIDES TO ONLINE RESOURCES
CHEMICAL SCIENCES
INTRODUCTION
I am Ahmad Faris Bin Hassan, liaison librarian for
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
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:
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Conference Proceedings Citation
Index - Science (CPCI-S)
This citation index
covers conference literature in all scientific and technical fields, including:
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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.
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
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.