Chemistry

For more information about Chemistry resources contact Svetlana Korolev or schedule a Research Consultation

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To find books and journals in the UWM libraries collection search Catalog (Guide).

Contents: Databases | Selected Web Sites

Library Databases (For Finding Articles) UWM only

ACS Publications [American Chemical Society]
Dates vary; indexing and full text for American Chemical Society journals.
Analytical WebBase (Analytical Abstracts)
1980-present; a companion web database to a journal Analytical Abstracts. Covers over 100 international journals including the full content of Analytical Abstracts from 1980 to date, plus equipment manufacturers' application notes, standards and books. Guide
Chemistry Central FREE ACCESS
Dates vary; peer-reviewed open access research articles in chemistry published by, or in cooperation with, BioMed Central.
Clinical Pharmacology - see Health Source: Consumer Edition
DiscoveryGate
1771-present; offers two comprehensive chemical databases Crossfire Beilstein (organic) and Crossfire Gmelin (inorganic/organometallic), and MDL Compound Index on the Internet. The MDL Crossfire commander is also available via the Start button in the Program menu in the library building. UW-Madison Search Help | Crossfire Commander 7.0 Quick User Guide
Knovel Scientific and Engineering Online References
Dates vary; a collection of over 600 handbooks, dictionaries and proceedings in technical disciplines. Full text is searchable by keywords and numeric property values. Contains interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Data from tables can be manipulated and further imported in an Excel spreadsheet. Field Guide | Guide
Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
1974-present; Indexes literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Guide
MDL CrossFire Commander - see DiscoveryGate
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Journals
Dates vary; the historic resource contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. The articles are accessible via issue contents and by specific searches of the bibliographic information. A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) link is used as an access route to the full text of articles.
Science Direct
Dates vary; Indexes over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals and hundreds of book series from Elsevier in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences and humanities. For more information about recent changes to Science Direct access, see Science Direct Web Editions Discontinued.
SciFinder Scholar [Chemical Abstracts]
1907-present; A research tool for accessing information in Chemical Abstracts databases. Covers all areas of chemistry and related scientific disciplines. Indexes of more than 9,000 journals, including cover-to-cover of 1,500 key chemical journals (1994-), patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and dissertations. | Help | Guides
     [Only UW-Milwaukee students, faculty and staff are eligible to use and download a SciFinder client. Contact Library Automation to obtain the program. The client can only be used from a UWM computer or while dialed into the UWM modem pool.]
This title is available on computers in the library, via the Start menu. Click on the Windows Start Button button in the lower left corner of your screen, and choose your database from the Programs menu.
Web of Knowledge - Tutorial
1987-present; includes three databases within the Web of Science platform: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Also includes ISIHighlyCited.com, which lists the most influential scientific authors, and EndNote Web, an online bibliographic citation manager. Guide

Selected Chemistry Web Sites FREE ACCESS