Chemistry Databases
(see also
Sciences)
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- American
Chemical Society Journals (ACS)
 
- Lets you
search the full text of all titles published by the American Chemical Society from 1879 to the
current ACS Web Editions - nearly three million pages. Articles are in PDF format
with the same high level of readability as the original document.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- Chemistry:
Foundations and Applications (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers chemistry, its laws, processes, applications, and subdisciplines.
Reviews the history of the field from the Bronze Age and alchemy up to modern research
and practical applications. Includes biographies of scientists past and present and
examines the role chemistry plays in various aspects of everyday life. Provides
information about chemistry's many branches such as inorganic, industrial,
atmospheric, and computational chemistry, and biotechnology.
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- Guide
to Gems (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Guide
to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Also of Interest:
- Industrial
and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Covers significant findings and practical applications in agricultural,
food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Includes
fermentation, microbial degradation, food microbiology, microbial toxins,
plant diseases, post-harvest decay, plant protection, forestry,
soil microorganisms, mineral microbiology, protection of materials,
hydrocarbons, microbial resistance, and antimicrobial agents.
Covers 1982 to the present.
- Macmillan
Dictionary of Toxicology (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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