Information Services

Books & Media
Search the Library Catalog to find books, video's, government publications and journal titles. The catalog can be searched by author, title, keyword or subject and contains the holdings of Connecticut College as well as Trinity College and Wesleyan University. To search for books and media outside of the local catalog, use WorldCat.

Chemistry resources available in Shain Library include:

CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
REF QD 65 H32

Merck index
REF RS 51 M4 1996

Other resources for locating information on books and media include:
Books in Print
Book Review Digest

Style Manuals
A collection of style manuals and writing guides are kept on the shelf behind the reference desk. Information is also available from the Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources page.

The ACS style guide : a manual for authors and editors
REF DESK QD8.5 A25 1997

Databases & Indexes
A full listing of all scholarly databases is available grouped by subject or listed alphabetically.

ACS Web Editions 
Provides full-text access to approximately 30 journals published by the American Chemical Society.

Applied Science & Technology Index (via WilsonWeb) covers 411 English-language scientific and technical publications on such topics as engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management.

CSA Life Sciences Collection covers resources in life sciences disciplines including cell and molecular biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, entomology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, genetics, immunology, and agriculture. Years of coverage are 1982 to the present. Additional databases that can be accessed include Biology Digest, Medline (10 years), Plant Science, Toxline and a Web Resources database.

Crossfire Beilstein database is the world’s largest compilation of chemical facts. Beilstein indexes 3 primary data domains: substances, reactions, and literature. The Crossfire Commander client provides the power to search and explore these complimentary databases. The Commander client is currently loaded on several workstations in all of the electronic classrooms in Shain Library. The use of this database is restricted to the campus community only.

Medline is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database containing over 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

ScienceDirect covers resources in chemistry, materials science, engineering and technology, environmental science, pharmacology and toxicology, physics, math and computer science, earth sciences, biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, biological sciences, and clinical medicine. Coverage for Elsevier titles runs from Jan. 1995 forward. Academic Press titles (formerly in the Academic Ideal database) run 1993 forward. Subscribed titles are available full-text.

Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, with all cited references captured. Topics covered include: Agriculture, Biochemistry, Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Plant Sciences, and Zoology. Coverage is 1975 forward.

SciFinder Scholar is a client-server application providing access to the CAS databases, including more than 8,000 journals and patent references, and more than 26 million substance records and CAS registry numbers. Access to the substructure module is included.

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Internet Resources

American Chemical Society Journal Archives
Provides access to 120 years of the most cited chemistry research. This new online archive lets you search the full text of all titles published by ACS from 1879 to your current ACS Web Editions subscription.

Chemistry Information on the Internet 
An extensive listing of Chemistry resources on the web including publications, databases and commercial sites. 

ChemDex 
The directory of chemistry on the WWW since 1993.

WWW Virtual Library: Chemistry (Links for Chemists)
Links for Chemists is an index of chemistry resources on the web.

e-Journals
A complete listing of full text electronic journals is located on the Library homepage under the Journal Locator link.

Assistance
For assistance in locating or using these or other sources, please contact the Reference Desk or schedule an appointment for a Personalized Research Session.

Page content by Melodie Hamilton

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