Research Guides: Chemistry 457: Getting Started with Research

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SciFinder n
Comprehensive access to substance, reaction and reference information in a single tool.
Create a Scifinder Account from our SciFinder Quick Start Guide.

SciFinder n is a research tool providing access to Chemical Abstracts databases which index a wide range of international literature in chemistry and diverse scientific fields including biology, engineering, physics, geology and material sciences. Major coverage includes journal articles, patents, dissertations, conference proceedings, as well as over 30 million substance records in the CAS Registry database. SciFinder can be searched by topic, author name, or by substance name, chemical structure, reactions, formulas or CAS Registry numbers. Commercial and regulated chemical information is included in SciFinder database content. Linking to full text articles in certain journals to which the library subscribes is an added feature.

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Scopus

SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
PubMed

PubMed is a database of citations and abstracts for millions of articles from thousands of journals in the areas of general science, chemistry, medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It includes links to full-text articles at several thousand journal web sites as well as to most of the articles in PubMed Central. PubMed does not have citations for certain types of PubMed Central material, such as book reviews.
SpringerLink

Note that almost any SpringerLink book in our catalog can be purchased as a "print on demand", grayscale copy for $24.99. This price includes shipping to anywhere within the continental United States.
Google Scholar

From academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Chemistry Journals at Bates

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CBBcat Search

CBBcat

American Chemical Association Style Guide:

In all likelihood, this is not the style you will be using. But if you are required to use the ACS style, the library has a copy of the ACS style guide.

The ACS Style Guide (Online; 3rd) by Lorrin R. Garson; Anne M. Coghill (Editors)
Published: 2006
The ACS Style Guide's Third Edition continues its long tradition of providing invaluable insight on ethics in scientific communication, the editorial process, copyright, conventions in chemistry, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and writing style for any STM author, reviewer, or editor.

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Thesis Research Worksheet:

This research worksheet can help you organize both your searches and their results. We used this in our second library session.

Chemistry Thesis Research Worksheet - Google Doc
Note that this is view only. Save a copy to your Google Drive.

Chemistry Thesis Research Worksheet - MS Word

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Backup to Google Drive
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Setup EndNote Online Account
Follow this link to Register for your online EndNote Account. You will use this to backup your Desktop Endnote library.
Ladd Library Thesis Writers Guide
This guide contains links to MS Word and LaTeX templates you can use to start a conversation with your adviser about formatting.

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