Background Information
Tip: Use an encyclopedia for a quick overview, to develop vocabulary for searching, and to find other sources.
Access ScienceOneSearch
From: McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
Chemistry - Foundations and Applications (v1-4)
R540.3 C42
The Encyclopedia of Chemistry
R 540.3 En1
Articles (journals / magazines)
Recommended databases
ACS Journals SearchOneSearch
From: The American Chemical Society
Searchable index of all ACS publications. Copies of articles not owned by Meredith libraries may be ordered. Click here to request an article.
General Science AbstractsOneSearch
From: EBSCOhost
Abstracts of articles in professional and general interest science periodicals.
PubChem
PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.
Web of Science (ISI Citation Databases)
From: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Coverage: 1988 - current
The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes:
Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. You may search one or all databases at one time. For search help
you may access: Web of Science tutorial or Web-Based Training.
Additional databases that cover topics in chemistry
PubMedOneSearch
From: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Core database of articles of everything medical published by the National Library of Medicine. Two different search
interfaces are available, PubMed and Highwire.
Citations to articles that are primarily general science, general chemistry, and life sciences are also included in PubMed.
Use the Pubmed Overview Sheet or the
PubMed Tutorial for more information.
PubMed Central
Full text of more than 160 open access biomedical, chemistry, and life sciences journals.
SpringerLinkOneSearch
A premier resource for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
Wiley InterScienceOneSearch
A quality collection of peer reviewed journals; hosts many of the core journal titles in their respective fields. Use the Subject List to access a list of subject areas and titles.
General Databases that may be useful
Academic Search PremierOneSearch
From:EBSCOhost
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals as well as information in nearly every area of academic study.
General OneFile
From: Gale
A source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics, including business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, and technology.
Research Library
From: Proquest
Search for journal articles on various topics including arts, business, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Includes The New York Times , USA Today , Barron's, and The Wall Street Journal.
Handbooks and Tables
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
From: CRC Press
Annual compilation of physical constants, properties of common inorganic and organic compounds, and much more. Consult their help system for advice on browsing, searching, and using interactive tables. Print edition available at Reference (R541.9 H19 2004-2005).
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry & Technology
Website from: Knovel Corporation
Originally published for the National Research Council in seven volumes, it contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds as well as pure substances. The original 1000-page index is hyperlinked to each entry's appropriate page.
Knovel Critical Tables
Website from: Knovel Corporation
Database contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties and makes use of the interactive Equation Plotter to plot thermodynamic properties as a function of temperature.
Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Rev. Ed.)
Website from: Knovel Corporation
Database comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
Dictionaries
Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
R 540.3 L58H
The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Chemistry (ebook)
Books
To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, search the
Meredith Library Catalog
To browse the stacks for chemistry books, go to:
540 Chemistry and allied sciences
543 Analytical chemistry
546 Inorganic chemistry
547 Organic chemistry
NetLibrary
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.
WorldCAT
Website from: OCLC
Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. Two different search interfaces WorldCAT (new user-friendly website from OCLC) and WorldCAT (OCLC First Search)
Other Libraries
Link to libraries in the Triangle, North Carolina, and all over the world.
Internet Resources
Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
American Chemical Society
Chemjobs, WWW links, educational resources for k-8, high school, college.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
From: The National Institute of Standards and Technology
The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
From: The National Institute of Standards and Technoloy
Royal Society of Chemistry
