SubjectsPlus: Chemistry
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Academic OneFile A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.
American Chemical Society Archives
Searches full text of all ACS journals from 1879 on.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Scientific and scholarly journals which have been peer-reviewed and are free.
General Science Abstracts, 1984+
In print 1978/79-1984 Storage Q 158.5 G45
Indexes and abstracts about 160 popular scientific journals.
Google Scholar
Scholarly journal articles on all subjects, some are full text; many have links to cited references.
Information Bridge
Provides open source access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy Research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.
SciCentral
SciCentral is a science research news current awareness website. It has todays research news on biosciences, health sciences, physics, chemistry, earth & space, and engineering.
SciFinder Scholar - Chemical Abstracts, 1907-
SciFinder Scholar provides access to several Chemical Abstracts Service databases, including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCAT. Users may search more than 19 million citations to the chemistry literature by topic, author, CAS Registry Numbers, patent number, and CAS abstract number. More than 22 million chemical substances may be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Numbers, and formula. Users can also do substructure searching.
SciFinder Scholar is not to be used for commercial purposes.
Note: This database is available to the public only on computers no. 31, 32, 33 in the Reference area of the library. Additional copies of this software are in Magruder Hall-Computer Lab and the Chemistry Study Area.
Scirus
Indexes journal articles, but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science : Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the mid-20th Century. Call Number: Reference Q 141 B5285 2000
Biographical information for 2,500 women scientists from antiquity to mid-20th century ( all are dead). Give several paragraphs of information for each woman and bibliographic references.
Biographies of Famous Chemists
Weblinks to biographies of 330 famous chemists.
Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
Biographical information for over 1000 scientists. Can search by name, gender, minority status, historical period, nationality, and prize winners
Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
This dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the lives, labours and achievements of the men and women who have shaped the world of science.
ISIHighlyCited.com
Lists the most cited researchers in 21 subject categories. Includes biographical information and a listing of publications. You can search by name, category, country, and institutional affiliation.
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.Call Number: Reference Q 141 N45 2008
Chem.com Product Catalogs
Database to chemical supply catalogs on the web. Searchable by chemical name, CAS number, molecular formula or catalog number. Has a large list of company catalogs.
Chemical Calculations-University of Cambridge
Forms which calculate many basic chemical calculations for you. Movable molecules of substances like DNA.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.Call Number: Reference QD 65 H3 Ed.89 2008/09
Many tables of information. Includes conversion factors, laboratory safety, geology, astronomy and pure mathematics.
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measure
NIST Data Gateway
Searchable National Institute of Standards gateway web site which provides links to chemical and property information available from NIST. This gateway includes links to selected free online NIST databases as well as to information on NIST databases available for purchase.
PubChem
Provides basic information about chemical substances, particularly drugs. Has a Bioassay Index and a Chemical Structures Search. From the National Library of Medicine.
Sigma-Aldrich Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals
This is the catalog for chemicals sold by the Aldrich Chemical Company. It is very large. Each substance has a picture, chemical name, CAS Registry number, molecular formula, some properties, safety information, and some references.
Web Elements
The periodic table of elements.
Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas. Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.
Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 2007.Call Number: Reference QD 5 .C5 2007
Kirk-Othmer Concise Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.Call Number: Reference TP 9 K54 2007
Presents key information from the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 5th ed. It includes information on the properties, manufacture and uses of chemical and materials; scientific and engineering principles; processes and ane environmental, health and economic concerns.
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.Call Number: Reference TP 9 E685 1992
Articles on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed. Click here for contents.
McGraw Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Based on the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.Call Number: Reference Q 121 M3 2007
A multi-volume basic science encyclopedia.
Merck Index.Call Number: Reference RS 51 M4 2006
Detailed description of 10,500 chemicals, drugs and biological substances. Gives chemical name, CAS registry number, molecular formula, physical properties, references, some structure images, derivative compounds, alternate names, therapeutic uses. There are several special indexes including one for name reactions.
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Hazardous Materials
This tells what to do if someone has been exposed to a hazardous material. It has first aid, personal protection and sanitation, respiration rates. It has a topic index and a site search. From the Centers for Disease Control.
Science.gov
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Science.gov searches over 38 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.
TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network
An index to several federal publications on toxic substances including: Toxic Literature Online; Hazardous Substances Databank; Toxics Release Inventory; Environmental Health eMaps. From the National Library of Medicine.
Chemistry Laboratory-Truman State University
This useful manual describes the chemistry class laboratories for Truman State University. It includes how to set up equipment.
Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style. This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.
Household Products Database
Hazardous chemical data of household products such as pesticides, cosmetics, cleaning materials, etc. Searchable by product brand, ingredients, manufacturer, and health effects. From the National Library of Medicine.
INFOMINE
INFOMINE is a huge collection of scholarly internet sites. It has a special section for physical sciences, engineering, computer science and mathematics. Each website is carefully evaluated, cataloged and checked for status by the Libraries of the University of California.

