Chemistry
Starting point contains definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information
than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Use the catalogue
to search for more dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
You can search the Library Catalogue to find books, DVDs, journals and other materials
If you know the exact title in the New catalogue
- At the search screen select a Title search
- Type in the exact title. You can use double quotes around phrases, for example, “room with a view”
- Link to online material or take note of the collection, call number and status to find items in the Library
If you are searching for a topic in the New catalogue
- Type in keywords from your topic to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
For example,
+soil +pollute +contaminate
- Use + before a word to indicate that the word must be included
- Another way of doing this is to combine keywords with AND (the AND must be in upper case)
- If a keyword search gives you too many results, you could add another keyword with +
For example, +soil +pollute +contaminate +chemistry
Truncation is generally not needed as entering any version of a word will retrieve many variations.
More information
- For more information select the catalogue Help button
Databases and journal articles for Chemistry
Use databases to search for journal articles, book chapters, conference papers or
research reports
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Databases |
Notes |
Help |
| Academic Search Premier | A multidisciplinary database which includes coverage of nearly every area of academic study including the medical sciences, and which also offers full text for many journals | Help is available from any search screen within the database |
| PubChem | Free resource from the National Library of Medicine, USA. Contains three linked databases: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool, and links to related resources in PubMed/NCBI | Help is available from any screen within the database |
| ScienceDirect | ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and technology literature. It gives access to full text and bibliographic information | Help is available from any search screen within the database |
| SciFinder Scholar | Comprehensive coverage of all branches of Chemistry literature, as well as chemical structures and chemical reactions. Includes bibliographic information on journals, books, conferences, patents, and dissertations. There are also some links to full text | Help is available from any search screen within the database |
| SCOPUS | Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. A multidisciplinary database, it includes international coverage of chemistry. Also provides cited reference searching | Help is available from any screen within the database |
| Web of Science | Multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 prestigious, high impact research journals. Also provides cited reference searching | Help is available from any search screen within the database |
Complete list of Chemistry databases. Also check the multidisciplinary databases as they cover a wide range of academic topics. You can select other subjects from the database subject list
Full text not available?
When the full text is not available, search for the journal title in the Library
catalogue to discover if print or online copies are available
Database search tips
- Define your topic and identify the main concepts involved
For example mass spectrometry AND chromatography
- Make a list of keywords for each concept
For example
mass spectrometry, mass spectroscopy
chromatography, liquid chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, HPLC
- Think about how you can combine these keywords in your search using OR, AND or
NOT
Keywords on the same concept combine with an OR
Combine different concepts with an AND
For example
mass spectro*
and
chromatography OR liquid chromatography OR high performance liquid chromatography OR HPLC
- Appropriate truncation symbols can be used in databases to find variations of
a word, for example spectro* finds spectrometry, spectrometer, spectroscopy and so on
For help with searching databases see Connecting and Combining Search Terms or Truncation/Wildcards/Phrase searching: Basic or Online training or Ask the Library
It is important to critically evaluate all information you find particularly
information found on the web.
This is a starting list of internet sites. You may want to do your own searches
using
search engines
- IP Australia a government site that deals with intellectual property such as patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeders’ rights
For further information about any of these resources please contact the
Ask the Library service or ask at the library desk
Coordinated by: Health Sciences Academic Library Services Team