Research
Subject Guide: Chemistry & Biochemistry
The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.
Databases
Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.
- BIOSIS an important resource for searching biochemistry topics
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers food science and chemical engineering topics.
- General Science Abstracts includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine includes books, journal articles, proceedings and dissertations
- PubMed provides access to sequence information
- SciFinder Scholar, the Chemical Abstracts Database, is available on computers in Chemistry and the library reference room.
- Web of Science Citation Indexes an important resource for a broad range of topics
Reference Books
Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.
- Access Science an online science encyclopedia
- Dictionary of Organic Compounds / Chemistry Library QD246 .D46 1996
- Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering / Chemistry Library TA402 .E53 1986
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics / Multiple Locations QD65 .H3 2002-2003
- International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology / Chemistry Library TP9 .E685 1992
- Knovel Critical Tables
- Lange's Handbook of Chemistry / Chemistry Library QD65 .L362
- Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition)
Web Resources
Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:
- Internet and Departmental Resources from the Denison University Chemistry Department
- Aldrich
- American Chemical Society
- Google Scholar
- National Science Foundation: Division of Chemistry
- Organic Syntheses: A Publication of Reliable Methods for the Preparation of Oganic Compounds
- The Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
- Scirus a search engine for scientific information
- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds, SDBS
- Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
- WebElements periodic table online
- The WWW Virtual Library: Chemistry
Online Journals
Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:
- Nature
- Science
- ACS Backfiles
- Annual Review of Biochemistry
- Journal of Biological Chemistry all articles prior to 2003 are open access
- Journal of Chemical Education
- PubMed Central digital archive of many life science journals. See the full list for years covered and restrictions.
- Scientific American Archive
- To determine whether we have a journal available online, please search the CONSORT catalog or use the Electronic Journal Finder.