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Chemistry Resources

Chemistry web and print resources for labs, papers, and proposals

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Citing Sources - ACS Style

ACS Style Quick Guide
(ACS Publications):
Sample formatting for common types of materials.

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. You can allow link your Mendeley account directly to your Binghamton Univ. username and password if you like.

2. Mendeley Cite (Microsoft App) is available via our campus Microsoft 365 license.
You can see it in the Reference Tab within Word.
This tool allows you to insert citations directly into Word Documents.

3. The Mendeley Web Importer is a Chrome extension that allows you to import articles and references from publisher websites.

4. The Mendeley Desktop Reference Manager can also be downloaded and used as a standalone tool. The Reference Manager is the database of references that you create and will also appear in Mendeley Cite.

More Help: How to use Mendeley Reference Manager (Tip Tip Bio).
How to Use Mendeley Desktop, Web Importer, and MS Word Plug-in (GradCoach).

Chemistry Literature and Structure Searching

Here are a list of sources to start searching the chemical literature or search using chemical structures.

NOTE: CAS Scifinder-n requires registration prior to searching. Please contact ebrown@binghamton.edu to obtain registration details.

CAS SciFinder-n
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
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.
Google Scholar
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.

ChemSpider

Freely available chemical structure database with over 100 million structures, properties, and associated information from hundreds of high-quality data sources. (Owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry)

WorldCat
Millions of records cataloged by libraries around the world.
Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century. Materials also include books, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspaper titles, journal and magazine titles, sound recordings, videotapes, and more.
Dissertations & Theses @ Binghamton University
Full text of all BU dissertations from 1997 to the present. Citations and abstracts of all BU dissertations published by UMI.
For earlier dissertations and thesis, the Libraries might have copies available in print.
Dissertations & Theses Global
International in scope, this database offers indexing and text for dissertations and thesis spanning from 1743 to the present day. Full text for some dissertations prior to 1997, full text for most works added since 1997.
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

Chemistry Journal Publisher Websites

Major publishers covering Chemistry and related areas such as Materials Science and Physics. All sources contain full-text journal articles, ebooks, and supplemental journal data.

American Chemical Society Publications (Web Editions)
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
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals (1841-Current)
Provides full text of journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry, including the RSC Journal Archive for select titles (1841-2007)
ScienceDirect
Full-text access to Elsevier journals subscribed to by SUNY institutions. To view journals choose "Browse Journals" under Licensed users.
ScienceDirect
Wiley Online Library
Search across all Wiley published journals and works.

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Subjects: Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematical Sciences, Physics & Astronomy

Chemistry Instructional Videos and Problem Sets

There are lots of classroom materials of chemistry lectures, problem sets and exams on the web:

Khan Academy has introductory chemistry lecture videos. Some problem set solutions may be locked.

CrashCourse has videos on Chemistry course topics.

MIT OpenCourseWare has lectures, problem sets and exams online.

UCI Open has lectures, problems and solutions in individual lectures.

Open Stax has a freely available General Chemistry textbook in both Engilsh and Spanish.

The Organic Chemistry Tutor covers many topics in Chemistry as well as Math and Physics.

Periodic Table of Videos covers many chemical topics.

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