CHEM 431W: Organic and Inorganic Preparations (3)

This is a selection of useful library resources for students taking CHEM 431W. 

Accessing Journal Titles
Searching for Reactions
Finding Spectra
Finding Properties Data
Writing Resources
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Other Resources

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Accessing Journal Titles

SciFinder Scholar

Installed on all public workstations in the PAMS Library (201 Davey Lab); the 5 databases work
together through an integrated interface (SciFinder Scholar); includes the following databases:

CA+: Electronic equivalent of Chemical Abstracts; indexes journal articles, conference papers, chemical patents, and doctoral dissertations in chemistry back to 1907

Medline: Electronic equivalent of Index Medicus; covers medical literature back to 1966; ndexes journal articles and conference papers

CASReacts: Can search for chemical reactions

CA Registry File: Indexes chemicals; can be searched by chemical structure

CHEMCATS: Chemical catalogs

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Searching for Reactions

SciFinder Scholar (see description under “Accessing Journal Titles”)

CrossFire Commander (“Beilstein”)

Installed on all public workstations in the PAMS Library (201 Davey Lab); consists of two classic handbooks, both of which began publication in the late 1700s 

Beilstein: Covers organic chemistry; includes properties data, structure searching, and reaction searching

Gmelin: Covers inorganic and organometallic chemistry; includes properties data and structure searching

NIST Chemistry Webbook
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/

SDBS: Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
http://riodb01.ibase.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng

SciFinder Scholar (see description under “Accessing Journal Articles”)
Spectral data is listed at the “Experimental Data” link in the chemical substance records; spectral data not available for all substances

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Finding Properties Data

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/ERESOURCES/PSU00968
One of several handbooks included at this site

CrossFire Commander (“Beilstein”) (See description under “Searching for Reactions”)

Knovel http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/ERESOURCES/PSU00544
Collection of scientific and engineering handbooks

SciFinder Scholar (see description under “Accessing Journal Articles”)

Thermodex http://www.lib.utexas.edu/thermodex/
Index to several hundred handbooks of chemical and thermodynamic properties data; call numbers are for the University of Texas Chemistry Library, but we have a high percentage of the titles included in the database

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Writing Resources

ACS Style Guide (links to CAT record)
http://cat.libraries.psu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0841239991{020}

Quick Guide to Citing Using the ACS Style Guide, 3rd Ed.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/etc/medialib/psulpublicmedialibrary/pams/documents.Par.64266.File.tmp/Quick%20Guide%20ACS.pdf

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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/ERESOURCES/PSU01472
Highly respected, scholarly encyclopedia of chemistry and chemical technology

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (a.k.a., “the Gold Book” ) http://goldbook.iupac.org/

Access Science http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/ERESOURCES/PSU00808
Includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology as well as a scientific dictionary

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Other Resources

The CAT (PSU Libraries catalog) http://www.cat.libraries.psu.edu
Catalog of the books, journals, databases, and other resources in the Penn State Libraries collections

PAMS Library website http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/pams.html
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