Class Handouts ~ CHEM /Prof. O'Donnell
Complied by Kathleen Lowe, MLS
Goals of Library Instruction
- To provide an introduction to steps in locating research-based knowledge
- To make the student aware of research-based resources available via the library, the library web site and Interlibrary loan
- To be skilled in efficient search strategies
Quick Links
American Chemical Society Journal Abbreviations
Bibliographic information and abstracts for all articles in more than 1,500 key scientific journals are added to CAplus within 7 days. The list below is sorted alphabetically by the full journal title and also includes the journal abbreviation, CODEN, and publication frequency. This is not the full list of publications covered by CAS, and the list is subject to change.Science and Engineering Journal Abbreviations
Library Catalog
University of Montevallo Chemistry Research Guide
Selected Databases for access to primary journal literature in chemistry
American Chemical Society e-journals (ACS
Publications, UM users only)
Contains full text of 30 American Chemistry Society peer reviewed
journal, access to the magazine C&EN Chemical and Engineering News,
and indexing to ACS books. Important peer reviewed journals include:
Accounts of Chemical Research
Analytical Chemistry
Chemical Reviews
Inorganic Chemistry
Journal of Organic Chemistry
Journal of Physical Chemistry
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Oxford Journals
(UM users only
BioOne (UM users only)
BioOne provides a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience
research journals, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most
pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and
biodiversity conservation.
PubMed
From the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes
of Health.
Google
Scholar
Consider using the Advanced Scholar Search to limit to Chemistry
journals
Free Web Resources
CADD Group Chemoinformatics Tools
and User Services
The CADD Group's Chemoinformatics Tools and User Services is the public web
server of the
Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) Group of the
Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry (LMC),
NCI,
NIH located at
NCI-Frederick. It was
formerly called the "Frederick/Bethesda Data and Online Services"; and before
that the "Erlangen/Bethesda Data and Online Services" since it started some time
in 1997 as a collaboration between NCI's Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, then
in Bethesda, and researchers at the
Computer Chemistry Center (CCC)
at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Chemical Education Digital Library
ChemEd DL seeks to provide exemplary collections of resources,
tools, and services to chemistry teachers, students at all levels as well as
lifelong learners of the chemical sciences .
Common Chemistry
Common Chemistry is a web resource that contains CAS Registry
Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of widespread general public interest.
Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS
Registry Number® of a common chemical and want to pair both pieces of
information. The CAS Registry Number is the universally recognized unique
identifier of chemical substances and is often found on packaging and on
articles of commerce.
Concise Dictionary of Chemistry (via Alabama Virtual Library)
Periodic Table of the Elements
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life
sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH),
developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Chemistry News
Noteworthy Chemistry
Noteworthy Chemistry is a weekly
feature produced by the American Chemical Society that collects and summarizes
innovative ideas from the larger body of chemical literature.
Chemistry World
Chemistry World delivers the
latest chemistry news from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Scientific Writing And Research
The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors
QD 8.5 .A25 1997
In addition to instructions for contributors of ACS journals,
also contains an overview of preparing chemical literature and guidelines for
oral presentations.
University of Wisconsion-Madision Chemistry Library ACS help
Finding academic journals
To access a journal from on or off campus, type the
journal's title in our catalog
and choose "journal title"
Finding Books
Library Catalog
provides information on books and journals we own
WorldCat links to books, journals and archival material in academic libraries worldwide
Interlibrary Loan Interlibrary Loan forms may be filled out directly on our web site or obtained at the Ask Here desk. Please search the library catalog before submitting your form to ensure that the library does not already have access to the material. Allow seven to 10 days for your request to be filled. When submitting your form, please provide as much detail as possible so that staff may locate your article.
Library Services
Services provided by the library include face-to-face reference assistance at the Ask Here desk, help via e-mail or phone or Meebo.
Librarians are available at the library over 60 hours a week. For e-mail assistance, contact Kathleen Lowe lowek@montevallo.edu or 665-6109
Created 9/28/09
