Research Tools
Appointments
To make an appointment to search ChemAbstracts, find an available time on the calendar. You will get an email with a confirmation link. You will need to confirm from that email.
Appointments begin Sunday, February 26, 2-9.
Style Guides
Databases at Augsburg
- ACS PublicationsThis is the best place to begin your chemistry research. Everything is full text.
- Science DirectA useful place to begin you seraching.....but t his database is similar to ACS, it searches only the journals of only one publisher, Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific journals.
- Google ScholarSearches a vast amount of scholarly material! However, it only accesses full text materials if Augsburg has a subscription to that journal. Use Interlibrary Loan for the titles to which Augsburg does not subscribe.
- General ScienceExcellent resources in the areas of environmental sciences, biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy. It is a good starting point for research in the sciences.
No full text? Click "Find It" by the article to get it elsewhere, or to order it (learn more).
SciFinder Tutorials
Listed in this box are several tutorials on to use SciFinder. It would be a good idea to view several of the tutorials before you begin your searching. These tutorials may contain some specifics that apply only to the institution that created the tutorial!
1) Substance Searching on SciFInder. This 15 minute tutorial from SciFinder is a must if you have never used SciFinder!
https://www.cas.org/etrain/scifinder/introsub.html
2)SciFinder Topic Searching (journal articles) from the Marsdon Science Libary at the University of Flordia. This tutorial is very short and would be usefull as a refresher.
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/msl/services/tutorials/scifinder/scifinder_tutorial.html
3) If you are a textbase learner, try this tutorial for the University of Illinois.
http://www.library.illinois.edu/chx/tutorials/GuideToSciFinder.pdf
Books
When you search the catalog for Chemistry resources, try using combinations of terms like these:
- polymers and syntheses
- sulfur compounds
- chemical structures and bonding
- thermal properties and material
If your first search brings up too many irrelevant items, try using the Refine by Tag suggestions in the box on the right of the search results screen. If you don't find what you're looking for, try the Related Searches
at the bottom.
We also have large number of useful Chemistry reference books. Take a look at these suggested sources:
U.S. & International Patents
- Patents @ Organic Chemistry Resources WorldwideA list of the major sources of patent information on the Web. Check out this guide to Chemical Patent Searching.
Web Resources
- ChemspiderA great and free source of chemical information that allows searching by systematic name, synonym, trade name, registry number, SMILES or InChI. Searching by structure is also available.
- PubChemFree database of chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.
- Organic Chemistry PortalA great site for organic chemistry information, including abstracts of recent articles and a searchable database of organic reactions.
- Organic Chemistry Resources WorldwideAnother good site for organic chemistry. Provides links to websites on a number of topics, such as reaction components and synthesis strategies. Look here for patents as well.
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