Chemistry
Resources for Chemistry
Chemistry definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooksPrint dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Encyclopedia of analytical chemistry: applications, theory and instrumentation
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543.003/3
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Encyclopedia of spectroscopy and spectrometry
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543.085803/1
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Medicinal chemistry and drug discovery
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615.19/22
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Merck index: encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals
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615.103/2
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Penguin dictionary of chemistry
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540.3/30
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Scientific papers and presentations
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501.4/10
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Scientist's guide to poster presentations
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808.0665/12
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Writing the laboratory notebook
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542/30
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Chemistry books and moreSearch the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs If you know the exact title
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Chemistry journal articlesSearch a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports Try these first
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American Chemical Society
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Chemistry and related areas
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Automatic
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Current Contents Connect
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Multi-disciplinary
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Medline
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Medicine, including microbiology, drugs, pharmacology, organisms, diseases and chemicals
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ScienceDirect
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Multi-disciplinary
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SciFinder Scholar / Chemical Abstracts
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Chemistry and related topics including physical, analytical, inorganic, applied, macromolecular, organic and biochemistry.
Requires client software. Access from on campus only.
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Automatic
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Complete list of Science databases Found a useful reference?Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database. Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keyword e.g. isotopes AND uranium
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords e.g. uranium OR plutonium
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword e.g. atom* retrieves atom, atoms, atomic.
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- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
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Chemistry Internet sitesIt is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web. Organisations and departments Australia
- RACI - Royal Australian Chemical Institute
International
- ACS - American Chemical Society
- RSC - Royal Society of Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry Search enginesSearch engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database. Try these first: DirectoriesDirectories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines. UOW sitestop of page
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