Subject Guides: CHEM 496 Library Resources: Home

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- CAS Scifinder-n (Scifinder Scholar)
- Quick Chemical Information

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.

Handy Links from Class Discussion

More information on items mentioned in lecture:

Interlibrary Loan (Illiad): this is for requesting items not in our collections. Expected delivery times for articles is 1-2 days.

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 ID: Author profiles for researchers and article authors.

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:

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.)

PubMed

Chemspider

3. Journal article citation databases:

Web of Science

CAS Scifinder-n

Google Scholar

AccessScience (Encyclopedia of Science and Technology) This link opens in a new window
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.
American Chemical Society Publications (Web Editions) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text articles from journals published by the American Chemical Society and to which we have print subscriptions. Coverage: varies by title; earliest from 1896.
E-mail alerts for journal tables of contents are also available in both PDF and HTML formats

ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 63 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Finds 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.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
From 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.
CAS SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
CAS 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.
Users need to create an account using Binghamton email address. Users of the previous interface can use their existing accounts.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covers the citation indexes: Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, and Emerging Sources Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports
Also includes BIOSIS Citation Index, Data Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Derwent Innovation Index. Medline (1950-present), Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Zoological Records.