Chem 129: Research in Chemistry

Subscription Databases

Chemical Abstracts Student Edition covers 260+ journals and 300,000+ dissertations from the full edition of CA.
- Search tip: Best search method for chemicals is by CAS Registry number, including the hyphens. To locate CAS Registry numbers, try these links: ChemFinder.com, Sigma Aldrich Catalog, or these books: Merck Index (Reference 615.103 M555m), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (Reference 540.202 C111c).
- Find expert search tips on the expert search page, by clicking on the question mark to the right of the "Indexed In:" line.
- For help entering punctuation in searches, use Google to search: "chemical abstracts student edition punctuation." The information is near the bottom of the page, so scroll down.
ISI Science Citation Index covers more than 6300 major journals in 164 scientific disciplines from 1989 to the present, including ~700 chemistry journals. About 70% have author-generated abstracts.
- Search tip: Use SAME to search for terms in the same sentence in any order.

Annual Reviews Online. Although all Annual Review titles are searchable, note that for chemistry, Drew only has access to full text for Biochemistry from 1997 to the present and Physical Chemistry from 1996 to the present.
- Search Tip: We have these in print, too. Biochemistry from 1932 to current (Stacks 612.015 A615a); Physical Chemistry from 1950 to current (Stacks 541.3015 A615a).
Science Direct indexes and abstracts more than 2800 journals from the Elsevier (a large publisher of scientific journals) Science Collection. Full text is available for more than 1000 journals, including ~90 chemistry journals.
- Search tip: Use ! for truncation instead of * .
Wiley Interscience indexes and abstracts their large collection of scholarly scientific journals. Drew has full text access to 22 of the chemistry journals. Three of these have been in a recent list of top ten journals for chemistry: Angewandt Chemie International Edition, Chemistry: A European Journal, and Electrophoresis.
New York Times Historical--Search for page images for issues from 1851 to 2003.

Biological Abstracts indexes and abstracts articles in the life sciences from 1965 to the present. ~500 of the indexed journals have *chemi* in the title.
- Searching is very similar to ISI Science Citation index above.
- Search tip: Scroll down the General Search page to find a box for searching by CAS Registry number.
JSTOR has limited chemistry coverage, but its offerings are important from a historical perspective.
- Access to Science from 1880 to 2000, Scientific Monthly from 1915 to 1957, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States (aka PNAS) from 1915 to 2000.
Lexis-Nexis Academic is a large database that spans many subject areas, including News and Business.
- The New York Times from 1980 is searchable in this database, (including the Tuesday Science Times--a good source for science related news) and articles from it are available there in full text.
- This database offers full text access to some trade journals, including Chemical Week.
General Science Abstracts includes 289 journals from Europe and the US in all branches of the sciences. Of these 135 are scholarly (not necessarily about chemistry) and of those 35 are full text.
- However, it provides indexing (back to 1984 for most) and abstracts for some of the top chemistry journals: Nature, Science, PNAS, JACS, and Analytical Chemistry.

Google Scholar has the reputation of being strong in the sciences. It indexes content from scholarly publishers and organizations, university presses, open access journals, digital hosts (such as Ingenta and High Wire Press), BioMedCentral, and PubMed, preprint/reprint services, and government agencies.
- Set preferences to show Drew Full Text Availability, if desired.
- Search tips: Use + before a word to include it (+aluminum), - before a word to exclude it (not) (-chromatography), enclose phrases in quotation marks "lead paint", and use author:jones and intitle:aluminum to find works by Jones and a citation with aluminum in the title, respectively.

Contact Cathy Ryan at x3483 or cgryan@drew.edu.

Last updated 02/05/2006 by Cathy Ryan