Chemistry Resources

FINDING ARTICLES

Databases and indexes are collections of citations to articles. Select a database that covers the subject area you are researching. Avoid databases with popular literature (i.e. Article First), if you need to find scholarly articles.

Consult the Help and About sections of each database for the most recent information about topical coverage and the types of information included.

Use lessons in the Information Literacy Tutorial created by the Five Colleges of Ohio or contact a librarian for further suggestions.

When you find citations to articles in journals that are not owned by Kenyon College nor available online, you must make an InterLibrary Loan request. It may take 7-10 days for an article to arrive. You will be notified by E-mail when you may pick up the article at the library Circulation Desk. Request an article.

INDEXES AND DATABASES

The following databases are collections of citations, some abstracts, and some full-text articles in scholarly literature.

Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Citation Index) indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering from 1980 to the present. Both general subject and cited reference searching are possible.

SciFinder Scholar 2006 provides access to references on patents and from more than 8,000 scientific journals, some dating back to 1907. Database also contains chemical source information.
**Available only on CD-Rom stations in the library and in the Chemistry Departmental lab**

SELECTED CHEMISTRY JOURNALS AVAILABLE AT KENYON COLLEGE

INFORMATION LITERACY

Select lessons from the Information Literacy Tutorial. Lessons are designed to assist you in: Selecting and refining a topic | Developing a research strategy | Identifying useful reference sources | Performing efficient searches in the library catalog, databases and web pages | Understanding and writing citations | Evaluating information.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Choose Internet resources with a critical eye. When in doubt, assess each site with the following evaluation criteria.

SELECTED WEB SITES (in alphabetical order)

• Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
  A searchable index. See also the general acronym and abbreviation database.
• ChemFinder
  Free, online searches for chemical names, CAS numbers, molecular formula or weight.
• Chemical Industry Archives
  A searchable archive of internal chemical company documents, a project of the Environmental Working Group.
• Chemistry.org
  A comprehensive resource for chemistry related information Official site of the The American Chemical Society.
• Chemistry/OhioLINK Resource Explorer (CORE)
  An instructional web site collaboratively developed by two Chemistry professors and two reference librarians at Youngstown State University.
• GrayLIT Network
  A portal to more than 1,000,000 full-text science and technical reports from a wide selection of federal government agencies.
• History of Chemistry
  Collection of biographies of chemists, classic papers in chemistry, and history of science.
• Hot Articles Directory for ACS Journals and Magazines
  Selected full text articles from the publications division of the American Chemical Society
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry: Compendium of Chemical Terminology
  A collection of nearly 7000 terms, with authoritative definitions, spanning the whole range of chemistry. Commonly referred to as the IUPAC Gold Book.
• ISIHighlyCited.com
  Search engine that identifies influential researchers in 21 broad subject catagories, including the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering, and social sciences.
• Kenyon College Chemistry Department
• Library of Congress, Science Reference Services
  The Science Reference Services of the Science, Technology & Business Division of the Library of Congress provides reference and bibliographic services and develops the general collections of the Library in all areas of science, technology, business and economics.
• Macrogalleria, The
  "Broad-based introduction to polymers." --Choice
• Physical Sciences Information Gateway (PSIgate)
  The physical sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). Provides access to internet resources in astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, and science history and policy.
• Scirus
  A comprehensive science-specific search engine. Currently covering more than 167 million science-related web sites.
• SciTechResources.gov
  Catalog of government science and technology Web sites. A product of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

• Trinity University Cheminformatics Site
  Site is dedicated to exploring the use of the internet as a means for distributing chemical information.
• U.S. FDA/CFSAN: Library of Chemistry Information
  Web portal of chemistry-related sites hosted by the U.S. Department of Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
• Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements
  "The most artistic periodic table of the elements that this reviewer has ever discovered." -- D. H. Stedman, University of Denver
• Wired Chemist: A Collection of Chemistry Resources
  Uses three dimesional and animated sequences as visual aids. Site includes a Student's Corner with problem sets, general chemistry modules, and quizzes.

CHEMISTRY LISTSERVS

• Library of Chemistry Listservs
  Collection of of non-Federal Government e-mail discussion lists provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

   

FINDING BOOKS

Use CONSORT to identify books at Kenyon or another CONSORT library (College of Wooster, Denison and Ohio Wesleyan).

If a an item you want to borrow is owned by Kenyon, check our floorplans to find its location. If an item is owned by a CONSORT partner, or an OhioLINK partner, request the item online. Reveiw the guide to requesting CONSORT and OhioLINK items.

REFERENCE SOURCES

• AccessScience: online encyclopedia of science and technology.
• Bartleby's Web Reference Library.
• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology.

CITATION STYLE GUIDES

• ACS Guidelines for Documenting Sources
  Provided by the Chemistry / OhioLINK Resource Explorer

   

• American Chemical Society (ACS) Citation Style for Internet Sources
  Provided by Penn State Lehigh Valley.

COURSE GUIDES

Course guides are created for teaching faculty by the Library liaison upon request.

HELP

Library Liaison