Librarian
ACS (American Chemical Society) Style
This is the standard citation style for chemistry.
- ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication Freely accessible ACS Style Guide offered by the American Chemical Society
- ACS Style Quick Guide Offers sample citations. Chapter 4.3.3 from the ACS Guide.
- Whitworth ACS Reference Guide The Whitworth department of chemistry has chosen to adopt the American Chemical Society (ACS) conventions for citation of sources. However, for your convenience, a short description of the citation style is explained here.
Articles & Databases
- American Chemical Society Publications This link opens in a new window(1879-current) Full text dating back to the inaugural volume of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowEBSCO - (1926-current) Abstracts of international journal literature in life science and biomedical research.
- Physical Sciences & Mathematics Commons This link opens in a new window(Free) Physical Sciences & Mathematics Commons is an Open Access repository of science and math literature from universities all over the world. Search by keyword, browse by discipline, or view by institution.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window(Free) PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. This is a free database provided as a courtesy by the Whitworth Library, which cannot guarantee access or content.
- Science Database This link opens in a new windowProQuest - (1986-current) Covers astronomy, aerospace, biology, chemistry, computers, earth science, engineering, mathematics, and physics.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new windowIn addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface. See 'more' for registration info.
Scholarly Communication
ACS Guide to Scholary Commuication by
The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides students, researchers, educators, and librarians with the instruction and advice they need to master the art of scholarly communication. The new Guide covers all instructions from previous editions of The ACS Style Guide - completely updated and modernized - as well as a wealth of brand new chapters covering everything from preprints, Open Access, machine-readable data, and much more.
Call Number: eBookPub. date: 2020
Write like a chemist : a guide and resource by
Write Like a Chemist is a unique guide to chemistry-specific writing. Written with National Science Foundation support and extensively piloted in chemistry courses nationwide, it offers a structured approach to writing that targets four important chemistry genres: the journal article, conference abstract, scientific poster, and research proposal.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780199719457Pub. date: 2008
Searching for a Compound
There are many ways you can describe a compound in order to search for it within a database. Consider your options and what types of descriptions the particular database will accept. If you get zero results, try another way before moving on to another resource.
Chemical name/synonyms
Common/trivial name
Molecular formula
Empirical formula
Structure
CAS Registry Number
For example, consider ethanol:
ethanol
ethyl alcohol
ethyl hydroxide
C2H6O
H3C-CH2-OH
CAS# 64-17-15
