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Citing Sources - ACS Style

ACS Style Guide
(University of Wisconsin):
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.

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.

Chemistry Journal Literature Indexes

A list of databases and indexes covering Chemistry and related areas (Materials Science, Physics)

Note: Scifinder Scholar requires registration. Please email ebrown@binghamton.edu for the URL.

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
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)

Dissertations & Theses @ Binghamton University This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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.
Engineering Village (Compendex) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database referencing engineering journals and conference materials. Coverage: 1884-present.

Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
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.
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals (1841-Current) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry, including the RSC Journal Archive for select titles (1841-2007)
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to Elsevier journals subscribed to by SUNY institutions. To view journals choose "Browse Journals" under Licensed users.
ScienceDirect
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.

Wiley Online Library
Provides access to online journals and other related works.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
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.

Chemistry Instructional Videos and Problem Sets with Solutions

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

The video below is from one of the many collections from the Royal Institution's RI Channel in the UK.

Khan Academy has many introductory chemistry lecture videos. Note that 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.

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

Periodic Table of Videos covers many chemical topics.