Subject Guides
BCHM 480A Library Resources
Guide Contents
Handy Links from Class Discussion
More information on items mentioned in lecture:
Google Scholar Citations: include profiles for many researchers with citation and other impact data.
Lazy Scholar Browser Extension: Finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically.
Libkey Nomad Browser Extension: Add direct links to articles in library-licensed databases.
ORCiD: Author profiles for researchers and article authors.
Illiad (Interlibrary Loan): Our library service that will provide access to items that we don't have full-text access to.
Citing Sources - ACS Style
ACS - Citing Your Sources (Williams College)
Examples of how to cite common reference types.
ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication (online ebook)
This ebook has a wealth of information on how to cite materials and evaluate the chemical literature.
Mendeley
Manage and format article information for bibliographies, footnotes, etc.
1. Create an account on Mendeley.
2. Download Mendeley Citation Plug-in
(if you can) (Word, LibreOffice)
Allows you to insert citations into Word Documents.
3. Install the Mendeley Web Importer Chrome extension.
Allows you to import articles and references.
More Help: Getting Started with Mendeley video.
Places to search for Journal Articles and Chemical Structures
There are different tools to help you locate information in chemistry.
1. Encyclopedia: AccessScience
2. Journal article databases with structure and reaction search tools:
PubMed
MedLIne
CAS Scifinder-n (You will get a link to register for this after the lecture. You can also email me for the registration link anytime.)
3. Journal article citation databases:
Web of Science
Google Scholar
- AccessScience (Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)Online version of online edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Includes research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.
- PubMedFrom the National Library of Medicine. Includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
- MEDLINE with Full TextFull text of authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences.
- CAS SciFinder-nCAS SciFinder-n provides reference, substance, reaction and supplier content and relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more.
- Web of ScienceCovers the citation indexes: Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, and Emerging Sources Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports
- Google ScholarFinds scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. If you use this Google Scholar link, you will be able to use the Get it link to take advantage of the Libraries' full text and InterLibrary Loan services.
Chemical Structure Drawing Tools
Pubchem Sketcher v2.4 - from the PubChem website (National Library of Medicine).
Chemspider - from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Marvin (Chemaxon) - free for academic users.
Chem4Word (Microsoft) - compatible with Windows.
