Chemistry
From Subject Guides
Selected Resources for: Chemistry (Display only the highlighted/core resources).
- Subject Description: This Chemistry subject guide covers “the science of the composition, structure, properties and reactions of matter.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Updated: 2007-06-3 (PD) Revised: 2009-05-21 (DL)
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
- "General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995."
- The National Library of Medicine "provides a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. The format of these resources varies: searchable databases & databanks, bibliographic citations, full text (when available), archival collections and images." Medline is a part of this collection and is an index with abstracts of articles from hundreds of medical journals.
- Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
- "ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information."
- "SciFinder Scholar provides college students and faculty with quick and easy access to a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines. Faculty and students can explore the CAS database content created by scientists; references from over 9,500 currently published journals and patent information from more than 50 active patent issuing authorities; important discoveries that span the scientific century back to 1900; the latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they are published with references added daily and some patent information as recent as two days ago; complete coverage of chemistry and the life sciences including biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, medicine, and related disciplines; and the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information." Available from four LAN workstations and lab within the Moore Library, and in Science Hall on campus.
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
- "Academic Search Premier provides full text from nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies."
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Available in Full Text Authentication Required
- JSTOR is a collection of journals from the the fields of arts, sciences, business, education, and social sciences. The archive begins with the first issue of most of these journals and continues to within the past three to five years.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic “provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options”.
- Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition provides indexes, abstracts, and full text from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business FullText. Other full-text articles from additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literataure & Information Science Full Text.
Audio/Visual Resources
DVD Collection
Bhopal: the Second Tragedy
- More than ten years after "the world's biggest chemical disaster," there remain unresolved serious issues of unpaid damages, legal accountability, environmental reform and institutional failure on the part of Union Carbide, the chemical industry, and the U.S. and Indian governments.
- Call Number: HD7269.C452 I522 2004
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Controlling your risks, HIV in the research laboratory
- Call Number: T55 .C75 1994
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Ethics in Biomedical Research
- Call Number: QH332 .E84 2005
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Inside Cancer: Multimedia Guide to Cancer Biology
- Call Number: RC268 .C36 2006
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Safety in the Research Laboratory
- Call Number: T55 .S215 1997
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
VHS Collection
Centrifugation hazards, chemical storage hazards, glassware washing hazards
- Call Number: T55.H3 S38 1995
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Radionuclide hazards, Chemical hazards, Emergency response
- Call Number: T55.3.H3 R34 1995
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
X-ray Diffraction Hazards
- Call Number: T55.3.H3 X63 1997
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
- Find any or all journals available to the Rider Community.
MATILDA, the Rider University ONLINE CATALOG
- Search MATILDA for books, journals, government documents, videos, selected internet resources available to Rider University students at Moore Library on the Lawrenceville Campus and at Talbott Library on the Princeton campus.
General Book Collection
Annual review of physical chemistry
- Call number: QD1 .A732
Controlling chemical exposure : industrial hygiene fact sheets : concise guidance on 16 components of industrial hygiene controls
- Call Number: TP149 .C66 2001
Dance of molecules : how nanotechnology is changing our lives
- Call Number: T174.7 .S27 2006
Development of scientific thinking skills
- Call Number: Q175 .K927 1988
Feedstocks for the future : renewable for the production of chemicals and materials
- Call Number TJ808 .F44 2006
From alchemy to chemistry in picture and story
- Call Number: QD11 .G744 2007
Gecko’s foot : bio-inspiration : engineering new materials from nature
- Call Number: T173.8 .F63 2006
Micro-Assisted Organic Synthesis: One Hundred Reaction Procedurees
- Location: On Order 07-25-07
Models and analogies in science
- Call Number: Q175 .H56
Nanofuture : whats next for nanotechnology
- Call Number: T174.7 .H35 2005
Nanotechnology : environmental implications and solutions
- Call Number: T174.7 .T48 2005
Organic chemistry of sugars
- Call Number: QD321 .O74 2006
Strategic applications of named reactions in organic synthesis : background and detailed mechanisms
- Call Number: QD262 .K87 2005
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
American Men and Women of Science
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .A47
Biographical Dictionary of Scientists
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .B528 2000
Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .C128 2002
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .D5
Dictionaries
American heritage science dictionary
- Call Number: Ref Q123 .A5178 2005
Facts On File Dictionary of Biochemistry
- Call Number: Ref QP512 .F33 2003
Wiley's English-Spanish, Spanish-English chemistry dictionaryAvailable in Full Text
- Call Number: Ref QD5 .K294
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of chemistry
- Call Number: Ref QD4 .R57 2005
Encyclopedia of inorganic chemistry
- Call Number: Ref QD148 .E53 1994
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
- Call Number: Ref Q121 .M3 2007
Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia of Chemistry
- Call Number: Ref QD4 .V36 2005
General Reference Works
Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery
- Call Number: Ref RS403 .B8 2003
Extraordinary chemistry of ordinary things
- Call Number: Ref QD33 .S69 1998
Oxford Reference Online: Science
Textbook of Biochemistry: With Clinical Discovery
- Call Number: Ref QP514.2 .T4 2006
Handbooks and Manuals
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: A Ready-Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data
- Call Number: Ref QD65 .C72 2004
CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts
- Call Number: Ref QD95.5.S72 B78 2006
Handbook of organic chemistry
- Call Number: Ref QD251.2 .D43 1987
Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals
- Call Number: Ref TD196.O73 M32 2006
Lange's handbook of chemistry
- Call Number: Ref QD65 .L36 2005
Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals
- Call Number: Ref RS51 .M4 2001
What is what in the nanoworld : a handbook on nanoscience and nanotechnology
- Call Number: Ref T174.7 .B67 2004
Internet Resources
Full Text Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
- This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Gateways & Megasites
American Chemical Society’s Education Webpage
Cheminfo: Chemcial Information Sources
- Chemical information sources from Indiana University. Contains selected and well reviewed web sites in chemistry as well as instructional materials for chemistry.
- "...a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information." Royal Society of Chemistry recently acquired this online service and it will continue to be freely available.
Defense Technical Information Center online research portal
- From the Knowledgespeak Newsletter (October 2008): "DTIC is part of the US’ Department of Defense (DOD). The interface, known as MultiSearch, offers four defence search channels from a single drop-down menu, allowing users to access a collection of scientific and defence-related resources in one simultaneous search. The search employs the latest version of Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator, which is seen to provide ‘smart’ clustering, encyclopedia sidebars from Wikipedia, and EurekAlert! science news."
Internet Public Library: Chemical Sciences
- Annotated web links to chemistry resources such as abbreviations of chemical compounds, acid/base tutorial, eMolecules, MSDS and other toxicology sites
NIST Scientific and Technical Databases
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides standard reference data and a gateway to “(currently over 80) of the NIST scientific and technical databases” involving many disciplines.
- "...the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences." Includes a link to "Visual Elements" that includes Tom Lehrer's song, "The Elements."
- Annotated Web links to relevant K-16 science and math subjects arranged as directories and portals, searchable sites, search engines, and interactive Web sites. By Rider University's Associate Professor-Librarian Robert J. Lackie.
- “Science Accelerator…via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available by OSTI as a free public service.” This tool searches across collections including the Information Bridge, Energy Citations Database, Science Conference Proceedings, DOEpatents, E-Print Network, Energy files, DOE R&D Project Summaries, and DOE R&D Accomplishments.
- “Gateway for US Government science and technology information organized by subject.”
ScienceResearch.com: your one-stop source for scientific research
- “Deep Web Technologies is proud to present ScienceResearch.com-a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals, public science databases & pertinent science information quickly and easily.
WorldWideScience.org: the global science gateway
- "...connect[s] you to national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org." This site is created and maintained by the "Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), an element of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy."
- "...the directory and search engine of chemistry related resources on the Internet. Our search engine allows you to search the contents of more than 250 website. It searches only the sites we specify, bypassing a lot of the junk. We are only looking for the sites with the best information, resources, design and navigation. Only a small percentage of the thousands of chemistry web sites meet those criteria." A team of editors examines and determines what will be included. This website is receiving financial support from two companies, Aurora Fine Chemicals and Exclusive Chemistry Ltd, and is a free resource.
Teaching Resources
Welcome to Virtual Worlds Almanac
- "This is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide to virtual worlds. So far we have 156 entries on virtual worlds written and edited by people from around the globe. Check out the Help page to see how you can edit any page right now or the Projectsemantic-enabled and uses various properties and templates that make editing easy and uniform. Please see our Introduction to learn how this wiki is different than most." This wiki is produced by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and covers a number of disciplines at various grade levels, including undergraduate and graduate levels. page for more information about us and getting involved.
Websites
- From the company's website: "American Elements is the world leader in materials science know-how." This website provides information on each chemical element in the periodic table including safety and technical data, properties, etc. of each element.
Arizona State University’s Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Listing of other NMR sites on the Internet:
- “This package is organized into 13 chapters. These thirteen chapters may be accessed by clicking on the chapter title in the table of contents with the mouse.”
Distillations: Extracts from the Past, Present, and Future of Chemistry
- "...a weekly podcast on the past, present, and future of chemistry, with interviews, features, commentaries, reviews, and—of course!—the Element of the Week. Recent episodes have included topics like the chemistry of warfare, the intersection of science and art, and the growth of the nanotechnology industry."
How to Interpret MSDS Information Sheets
- “This webpage provides a little guidance on the interpretation of MSDS data sheets. These sheets may at first seem complicated and difficult to understand, but they are reliable source of data you need to handle chemicals safely.”
Journal of Chemical Education Online
- Print journal available in Moore Library Periodicals and website has additional resources.
- “In an ongoing effort to achieve a safe laboratory environment, the following laboratory safety document is presented.”
- “Where to find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet”
- “Each week, Science's NetWatch scours the Internet, reader email, and other sources for interesting science Web sites. Here you can look up reviews of the hundreds of sites we've highlighted since April 1998.” Links are not checked for activity.
- "...provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program."
- "The NIST Chemical Kinetics Database includes essentially all reported kinetics results for thermal gas-phase chemical reactions. The database is designed to be searched for kinetics data based on the specific reactants involved, for reactions resulting in specified products, for all the reactions of a particular species, or for various combinations of these. In addition, the bibliography can be searched by author name or combination of names. The database contains in excess of 38,000 separate reaction records for over 11,700 distinct reactant pairs. These data have been abstracted from over 12,000 papers with literature coverage through early 2000."
Online Safety Library: Material Safety Data Sheets
- Oklahoma State University’s Environmental Health and Safety website
- "Since 1921, Organic Syntheses has provided the chemistry community with annual collections of detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Some procedures describe practical methods for the preparation of specific compounds of interest, while other procedures illustrate important synthetic methods with general utility. Each procedure is written in considerably more detail as compared to typical experimental procedures in other journals, and each reaction and all characterization data has been carefully "checked" for reproducibility in the laboratory of a member of the Board of Editors."
Right to Know Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets
- New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services’ website listing more than 1700 Fact Sheets on “pure substances and contain information on health hazards, exposure limits, personal protective equipment, proper handling, first aid, and emergency procedures for fires and spills.”
- " This freely accessible Web site gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades...the people behind the accomplishments in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. These individuals are the most highly cited within each category for the period 1981-1999, and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers--truly an extraordinary accomplishment." One can search for a specific researcher, institution, country, or by category.
Scientific Commons: a Community for Scientific Information
- "The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge....Currently ScientificCommons.org has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names out of this data (January 2007)...ScientificCommons.org is a project of the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) and hosted and developed at the Institute for Media and Communications Management."
Career Information Resources
Online Translation Tools
Rider Faculty Publications
Chemistry & Physics Department
NIH Public Access Policy for submission of journal articles in PubMedCentral
- "The Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently made several updates to the NIH Public Access web page to clarify the submission process. The site explains four methods to ensure that a manuscript is submitted to PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH public access policy. These methods vary based on the version of the paper submitted and the actions undertaken by the author and publisher."
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Foundations
- "dedicated to preserving and promoting the progress of science. Located in Philadelphia, CHF maintains world-class collections, including instruments and apparatus, rare books, fine art, and the personal papers of prominent scientists, all related to the chemical and molecular sciences."
Official Agency & Organization Websites
Resources of Scholarly Societies: Chemistry
- Includes links to the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemists, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and more. International in scope.
- "...the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences." Includes a link to "Visual Elements" that includes Tom Lehrer's song, "The Elements."
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
- NoodleBib 6 Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. Starter and Advanced versions.The user's guide is also available for download. © Copyright 1999-2006 NoodleTools, Inc.
Style Manuals
ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors
- Call Number: QD8.5 .A25 2006
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editor, and Publishers
- Call Number: T11 .S386 2006
The Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Style of Documentation in Science and Mathematics
Writing Guides
Art of scientific writing : from student reports to professional publications in chemistry and related fields
- Call Number: QD9.15 .E23 2004
- Location: Moore Library- Stacks
Beginner’s guide to scientific method
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Doing science : design, analysis, and communication of scientific research
- Call Number: Q180.A1 V35 2001
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
- Call Number: T11 .D33 1988
Rider University Libraries: Avoiding Plagiarism
Scientific papers and presentations
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals:
- Provides guidance, general background, and rationale for preparing manuscripts for any biomedical, including the format of manuscripts submitted, retraction of research findings, order of authorship, and conflict of interest issues, among others.
Library Information
Moore Library
- Moore Library is a comprehensive general library with heavy emphasis on business, education, language and literature, communication and science. A collection of video and DVD formats and the Riderana/University Archives provide special support.
- Located on Rider's Lawrenceville campus, the building is named for Franklin F. Moore.
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