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Applied Science and Technology is a great place for basic research for undergraduates. Covers the big sci/tech journals and some society publications like Science, Nature, PNAS, ASME, ASCE.
Limited full text, but a good place for non-science students to find sci/tech information.
Like Applied Science and Technology, this database covers the big sci/tech journals and some society publications like Science, Nature, PNAS, ASME, ASCE. A good place for non-science students to find sci/tech information.
(Any location)
The National Library of Medicine's database of about 12 million journal article citations, abstracts, and often full text, from 1951 to the present. Covers those areas of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemistry, and bioengineering needed by health professionals and others engaged in basic research and clinical care, public health, health policy development, or related educational activities.
NTIS contains abstracts of scientific and technical reports of the research performed by Federal Agencies and their contractors. Most of the agencies, including DOD, DOE, NIH, DOT deposit reports with NTIS.
SciFinder Scholar -- in SciFinder folder
(Desktop of MSEL flat screen workstations)
SciFinder is the world's largest and most current source of chemical information. It contains all types of inorganic and organic substances alloys, biosequences, coordination compounds, minerals, mixtures, polymers, and salts.
It contains journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences from 1947 to the present.
A database covering scientific, technical and medical literature. Includes over 14,000 publications, including approximately 750 conference proceedings, from 4000 publishers.
Also known as Science Citation Index. This database provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 high impact research journals. Uses a unique search method which allows users to navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research.
Databases for Searching Chemical Properties
Beilstein -- in SciFinder folder
(Eisenhower Library only)
Beilstein is a database of organic compound properties, structures, reactions, and references to the journal literature of organic chemistry. The Crossfire Commander interface allows flexible and powerful searching by substance, property and/or reaction. Substance searching includes exact structure, substructure, CAS number, molecular formula, name, and many more choices.
Includes a wealth of chemical information from several chemistry reference works. Available via the Web, CHEMnetBASE includes information from the Combined Chemical Dictionary; The (CRC) Handbook of Chemistry & Physics; Polymers: A Property Database; and Properties of Organic Compounds.
A great source for basic physical and chemical property data. Includes an extensive section on mathematical tables; information on sources of critical data; rules for chemical nomenclature; and recommendations on symbols, units and terminology.
Gmelin -- in SciFinder folder
(Eisenhower Library only)
Gmelin is a database of inorganic and organometallic compound properties, structures, reactions, and references to the journal literature of inorganic chemistry. The Crossfire Commander interface allows flexible and powerful searching by substance, property and/or reaction. Substance searching includes exact structure, substructure, CAS number, molecular formula, name, and many more choices.
HSDB provides the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals. It includes information on human health effects, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, emergency medical treatment, animal toxicity studies, metabolism/pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, chemical/physical properties, safety and handling, occupational exposure standards, manufacturing information, and related areas.
An extensive source of physical properties and related data, presented with the experimental conditions and methods of measurement and evaluation. It covers atomic and molecular physics; properties of matter in its aggregated states; astronomy, astrophysics and geophysics; general scientific methods, tools and data; elementary particles, nuclei, and atoms; molecules and radicals; condensed matter; physical chemistry; biophysics; and technology.
Contains over 29,000 of the most commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures. An easy-to-use tool for identifying unknown compounds or for locating additional data and references for a known compound.
A group of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related information, produced by the National Library of Medicine.
Indexes
Indexes are the print equivalent of databases. You would use the print index when the years you are doing research on fall prior to the database's scope of coverage.
You might also use a print index if the topic you are interested in is farily narrow or somewhat esoteric and is not covered by one of the major indexes in the field.
The indexes below are only a partial list of the indexes available to researchers at JHU. Please see your departmental librarian if you have questions or need suggestions for other indexes.
Chemical Abstracts Sci Ref QD1.A51 (print 1907-1966)
Contains abstracts from journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences. These early volumes are covered in SciFinder Scholar, but the indexing in the electronic version is limited.
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data Sci Ref Q199.J68
Covers critically evaluated physcial and chemical property data; reviews of measurments and techniques.
One of the most extensive sources of physical properties and related data. The series originated in 1883 and was in German. The new series, which is in English, is approximately 210 volumes. Data are presented along with the experimental conditions and methods of measurement and evaluation. It covers atomic and molecular physics; properties of matter in its aggregated states; astronomy, astrophysics and geophysics; general scientific methods, tools and data; elementary particles, nuclei, and atoms; molecules and radicals; condensed matter; physical chemistry; biophysics; and technology.
Biological Abstracts Sci Ref QH301.B62
This is the print equivelent of BIOSIS. Dates covered begin with Volume 1, 1926.
Genetics Abstracts Sci Ref QH431.G432
Covers genetics and other related topics
Derwent Biotechnology Abstracts TA164.D4
Covers biotechnology, genetic manipulation through bioengineering, fermentation to downstream processing, industrial uses of micro-organisms, enzymes and cell culture, plant micropropagation, industrial waste and related fields, bioinformatics, high through put screening, genomics, and proteomics.
