Friedsam Memorial Library

Professor: Dr. Brestensky
Librarian: Cathy Maldonado [cmaldona@sbu.edu or 375-2153]
Date of session: February 13, 2008

Chemistry Resources: A Selected List of Reference Materials

Indexes

Beilstein Hanbuch der Organische Chemie (Belstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry)

Handbooks. Verlong Von Julius Springer, 1918-1940.

            Call Number: Ref. QD251. B4 1918

Beilstein’s Hanbook of Organic Chemistry is a collection of published information and contains *“critical reviews of all the material on all known carbon compounds” ( p.71). The material in Beilstein’s Handbook is mostly written in German. A German-English dictionary for chemists is available.

*(Wolman,Yecheskel. Chemical Information: A Practical Guide to Utilization,. Wiley-Interscience, 1983).

Chemical Abstracts. American Chemical Society, 1907-1984. Columbus , Ohio .

Chemical Abstracts is a comprehensive index to the field of chemistry and chemistry literature. The compilation in the index includes and is not limited to abstracts of articles, patents, reports, and reviews.

Dictionaries

Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary Wiley, 2002.

Call Number: Ref. QD5 .C5 2002

Dictionary of Chemical Names and Synonyms. Lewis Publishers, 1992.

            Call Number: Ref. TP9 .H65 1992

The Facts on File Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds. Facts on File, 2004.

            Call Number: Ref. QD5. F34 2004

Dictionary of Organic Compounds. Chapman and Hall, 1982.

Call Number: Ref. QD246 .D5 1982

Encyclopedias

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry. Macmillan Reference, 1997.

            Call Number: QD4 .M33 1997

The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals and Drugs. Merck.

            Call Number: Ref. RS356 .M4

Catalysis from A to Z: A Concise Encyclopedia. Wiley-VCH, 2000.

            Call Number: Ref. QD505 .C383 2000

Encyclopedia of Chemical Reactions. Reinhold, 1946-1959.

Call Number: Ref. QD155 .J3

Concise Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Wiley, 2001

            Call Number: Ref. TP9 .K54 2001

Handbooks

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 88^th Ed. CRC Press, 2007/2008.

            Call Number: Ref. QD65 .H3 2007/2008

CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. CRC Press, 1985.

            Call Number: Ref. QD257.7 .C73 1985

Lange's Handbook of Chemistry. Mc-Graw-Hill, 1999. Call Number: Ref. QD65. L36 1999

Handbook of Environmental Data on Organic Chemicals. Wiley, 2001.

            Call Number: Ref.TD196.O73 V47 2001

Other Useful Information Sources:

Reagent Chemicals American Chemical Society, 1981. Call Number: Ref. QD77. A54 1981

Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry. Pergamon, 1973. Call Number: Ref. QD151.2 .C64

1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products. Wiley & Sons, 1999.

            Call Number: Ref. TP200 .L49 1999

Chemical Information: A Practical Guide to Utilization. Wiley-Interscience, 1983.

            Call Number: Ref. QD8.5 .W64 1983

Chemical Information Sources. McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Call Number: Green Stacks QD8.5 .W54 1991

Databases

Ø      STN Easy: Available by subscription. STN is a service from the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) that allows access to an assortment of science and technology databases including the CAS databases (CA and CAOLD).

Ø      Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals and over 3,000 peer reviewed journals. A publication index is provided to verify that journals are peer-reviewed. It is updated on a daily basis. Chemistry journal titles such as Chemical Engineering Science, Journal of Chemical Information, and Journal of the American Chemical Society are included.

Ø      MEDLINE: This database provides information on a variety of subjects including medicine, nursing, and can search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Ø      ProQuest Research Library: Covers a wide range of academic subjects and indexes over 3,500 titles (including newspapers). This database includes abstracts, full-text and images. Journal titles include Analytical Chemistry (abstract), Canadian Journal of Chemistry (full-text), and Journal of Computational Chemistry (abstract).

Ø      Science Full Text Select (Wilson Web): Provides coverage for subjects including atmospheric science, chemical engineering, chemistry, and environmental science. Coverage dates for indexes, abstracts, and full-text content is 1994 and above.

Ø      The Serials Directory: This database provides up-to-date bibliographic information for various serials. The bibliographic information provided helps to identify the publication as peer-reviewed and scholarly.

Selected List of Electronic/Print Journals:

Ø      Journal of Biological Chemistry

Ø      Journal of Chemical Education

Ø      American Chemical Society

Ø      Journal of Organic Chemistry (5 yr. delay)

Ø      Accounts of Chemical Research

Ø      Analytical Chemistry (5 yr. delay)

Ø      Journal of Chemical Physics (5 yr. delay)

Ø      Isotopes in Environmental and Health Sciences

Ø      Annual review of Physical Chemistry

Ø      Environmental Science and Technology (5 yr. delay)

Ø      Chemistry of Materials (5 yr. delay)

Ø      Journal of Physical Chemistry A & B (5 yr. delay)

Ø      Chemical Reviews (5 yr. delay)

Ø      Chemical and Engineering News (5 yr. delay)

Note: Most of the journal titles listed with a (5 yr. delay) are available in print format only.

Internet Resources:

The following links direct and provide users to a substantial amount of scientific literature in various scientific disciplines. Abstracts and citations are available for journals and other published information that may not be free/open access.

PubMed Central: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Ø      Open access to literature pertaining to biomedical and life sciences.

PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Ø      Freely accessible database that provides access to citations and abstracts from a numerous amount of literature from the biomedical and life sciences. Other functionalities include links to full-text articles, links to other citations, and limiters for searching specific resources.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org/

Ø DOAJ provides free access to full-text content from scholarly journals in the sciences by journal title or specific subject.