This is a selection of useful library resources for students taking CHEM 431W.
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
SciFinder Scholar (see description under "Accessing Journal Titles")
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
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
ACS Style Guide (links to CAT record)
The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information
Quick Guide to Citing Using the ACS Style Guide, 3rd Ed.
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
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
