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ARTICLES
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sclinksJournal Locator - Help
Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals.
All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
Includes sites that provide journal abbreviations for several scientific disciplines.
Science Conference Proceedings (U. S. Dept. of Energy)
Indexes conference proceedings on energy and related areas.
Scholarly Articles
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications - Full Text
Indexes all ACS journals, with links to full text for most.
Annual Reviews: Physical Sciences
Selected Full-text and Index
Beilstein - Full Text - Smith Libraries Only
Available only in Young Library, and only to Smith users; ask at the service desk for username and password. Covers structures, properties and references in organic chemistry.
BioDigest - 1989 to present
Abstracts written in a non-technical style from over 370 life-science sources in botany, medicine, health, zoology, and environmental science.
Biological Abstracts - 1926 to present
Indexes articles in the life sciences and biomedical fields: biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, zoology, agriculture, etc.
Engineering Village 2 - 1970 to present
Extensive indexing and abstracts of 5,000+ journals, conference papers, patents, and technical reports worldwide.
Expanded Academic Index [GALE] - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text
Full text scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers. Covers the arts and humanities, the social sciences, science and technology, across all academic disciplines.
General Science Abstracts [EBSCO] - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles from 160+ U.S. and British journals and magazines on anthropology, astronomy, pollution, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine, health, and more.
PubMed (Medline) - From 1950s to present - Help
Lists over 14 million biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Check out Medline Tutorial.
Science Direct - Full Text
Indexes 2500 journals and 6000 books in science, technology and the social sciences from Elsevier Science.
SciFinder Scholar - 1907 to present - Help
Comprehensive chemical literature database. Requires registration. Must use @smith.edu to register. See Help link above for more info.
Web of Science - 1900 to present
Indexes and abstracts science & technical journals (1900 to present) and social science journals (2003 to present) published around the world with cited reference searching.
ArticleFirst - 1990 to present
Tables of contents of 12,000+ journals in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
Chemical Physics Preprint Database
Brown University
Google Scholar - Help
Links to scholarly books, articles and more. Results are incomplete and vary greatly by subject. Always use resource by subject or other library databases for a complete search of scholarly topics.
Health Reference Center [GALE] - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text
Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and related topics.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine - 1975 to present
Lists journal articles, proceedings, books, reviews & dissertations related to the development and influence of science.
Ingenta - 1997 to date
Free searching and browsing of over 25 million articles, chapters, reports, etc. publications in all fields.
Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals - Full Text
Contains the full-text of most IOP journals.
PapersFirst - 1993 to present
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide on a wide variety of subjects .
Proceedings - 1993 to present
Lists papers from every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library.
Science Conference Proceedings (U. S. Dept. of Energy)
Indexes conference proceedings on energy and related areas.
Scitopia
Search engine for the publications of 21 science and technology societies.
Popular Articles
ArticleFirst - 1990 to present
Tables of contents of 12,000+ journals in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
Scientific American Archive Online - 1993 to present - Full Text
Authoritative articles (color PDF's) and book reviews for a general audience on aeronautics & space, biology, chemistry, the environment, medicine, and more.
BOOKS AND MEDIA
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Moodle/E-Reserves
Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more.
Library Catalogs
Five College Library Catalog - Help
Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst.
WorldCat - all dates
Extensive catalog (OCLC) of books, serials, media, web resources, and more worldwide.
LIBWEB
Libweb currently lists over 2400 pages from libraries in over 70 countries.
Book Purchases and Reviews
Books in Print - 1979 to present
Information on all books (scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint, etc.) on all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. With out-of-print titles from 1979 to the present.
NEWS
LexisNexis Academic - Coverage varies by title - Full Text
Covers a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes federal and state laws and cases.
Current News
EurekAlert!
Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this site provides the latest news about science and technology.
Futurity
News about the latest discoveries in science and engineering from several major research universities.
Science Watch
Tracks trends in scientific research.
BBC News: Science/Nature
Nature
New Scientist
Scicentral: Chemistry
ScienceDaily
REFERENCE TOOLS
CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics - Full Text
Electronic version of the 89th edition (2008-2009). Trial ends November 15, 2009.
Biographical Sources
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography [Gale] - Full Text
Full text articles on scientists, from classical antiquity to modern times.
Encyclopedias
AccessScience - Full Text
Over 8500 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology; from McGraw-Hill.
Britannica Online - Full Text
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Index to full-text. See print volumes for full-text.
Patents and Standards
[STANDARDS] National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Style Manuals
Citation Guides & Style Manuals
INTERNET META-SITES
Chemistry Resources on the Internet
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - 1994 to present
"A virtual library, INFOMINE is a...collection of [22,000] annotated and indexed links" to substantive databases, electronic journals, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, textbooks and conference proceedings created by UC Riverside Libraries
Internet Scout Project - 1994 to present
Provides a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. Also includes access to past selections, with over 16,000 critical annotations of Internet sites and mailing lists.
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
Science.gov
A gateway to key Federal Government agencies that provide scientific and technical information.
Women-Related Web Sites in Science/Technology
WorldWideScience.org
A federated search engine of national and international scientific databases maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy.
WWW Chemistry Guide
Worldwide guide to chemistry resources.
WWW Virtual Library: Chemistry
Yahoo: Chemistry
INTERNET RESOURCES
ACS Directory of Graduate Research (DGR Web)
Chemindustry.com
Provides chemical catalogs, services, equipment, and other resources.
Cheminfo: Chemical Information Sources
CS Chemfinder
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Full Text
Includes nearly 800 "free, full text, and quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."
Library of Congress Science Tracers Bullets Online
Bibliographic guides.
MSDS Search
Access to over 350,000 material safety data sheets.
National Academy of Sciences - Full Text
Over 2,000 full text books on Science, Engineering, and Health.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Provides chemical and physical property data for over 11,000 chemical species.
NIST Data Gateway - Full Text
Provides access to over 80 scientific and technical databases that contain reference data and properties on a wide of substances.
OpenDoar (The Directory of Open Access Repositories)
Dirrectory and access to over 1,200 open access publication repositories.
SciTopics (Elsevier) - Full Text
Provides research briefs on an array of scientific and engineering topics written by experts.
Searching the Chemical Literature (Yale University)
ISIHighlyCited.com
Provides biographical information and the major publications of over 250 researchers whose papers are among the most highly cited in the sciences.
NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
Indexes key U.S. government report literature.
Scirus
Search engine for ScienceDirect and science resources on the Web.
WebElements: The Periodic Table on the WWW
ORGANIZATIONS
Academic Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments in the United States
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Chemical Society
House Committee on Science
Materials Research Society (MRS)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Science Foundation
Royal Society of Chemistry
Scholarly Societies Project
RELATED SMITH WEB SITES
Chemistry Department
Clark Science Center
History of Science and Technology Program
Program in Biochemistry
Young Science Library
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
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Older Biochemistry Class Guides
Archived class guides may not be up-to-date. Please ask a Librarian for assistance if you encounter broken links.
Older Chemistry Class Guides
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