Chemistry

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Books | Reference books | Articles | Web sites

Finding Books:

To find books or multimedia items, search the ACC book catalog (ACC Library web page > Finding Books > Catalog). The catalog lists reference books (located on the main floor), circulating books (on the library's upper level; may be borrowed for four week) as well as videos, DVDs and music CDs (may be borrowed by faculty; others may listen or watch material in libary). Here are some subject headings to consider using:

Reference Books:

Reference books, on the main floor, can help you select a research topic. They also offer quick background information and overviews on subjects.

Most chemistry books are in the QD call number area.

Also see the ACC Library's many useful circulating books, which you can borrow for four weeks. Among them are:
- The Environmental Science of Drinking Water (TD 345 .S77 2005)
- The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology (QR 48 .H36 2003)
- Chemical Compostiion of Everyday Products (QD 75.22 .T64 2005)
- Kitchen Chemistry (QD 43 .L57 2005)

Gale Virtual Reference Library:

You can search thousands of full-text chapters from more than 250 reference books published by Gale Cengage Learning. The ACC Library owns many of these books in printed format also. The Document Title search will search for your term in the chapter titles, giving you full-text chapters from the reference books. The content is the exactly the same as the original printed books. This is a subscription database, available from off-campus to ACC students, faculty and staff. Find this database with these links: ACC Library Web page > Finding Books > Reference > Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Finding Articles:

Journal articles offer current and specific information and research. Search for journal articles by subject through any of the ACC Library's dozens of article databases. Many but not all offer full-text links to articles. (If it's not full-text, ask a reference librarian about finding an article though another database, print sources or interlibary loan.)

Article databases are subscription-only products. ACC students and faculty may search these from home by following screen directions. (To get your ACC student username and password, see Lookup Account and Password on the Student Portal page.) For a full list of the library's more than 300 journal subscriptions, see the Periodicals at ACC list.

From the ACC Library Web page, go to Finding Articles. Then, choose either:

• General Databases to find articles on a current, popular or multidisciplinary topic and need a mix of newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals; or
• Subject Databases to find specialized articles on one subject only, such as business, science, literature, nursing, etc.

Among the General Databases are:
● EBSCO's Academic Search Premier: Over 8000 journals; about half are full-text.
● JSTOR: full-text; 117 journals covering the arts, sciences and social sciences.
● New York Times: Current (1980-present) and historical editions (1851-2003).
● New York State Newspapers: includes New York Times full-text.
● Opposing Viewpoints, CQ Researcher, more.

Subject Databases:
Under "Sciences" databases, consider searching these: ScienceDirect, Science Reference Center and General Science Collection.

The ACC Library receives many chemistry journals, such as Chemical Week, Chemical & Engineering News, Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Chemical Education, as well as many other science journals.

Web sites:

Here are some recommended Web sites. Of the billions of Web sites in the world, these are more appropriate for college-level research.

ACC Prof. Peter Tarana’s Chemistry Page : http://www.sunyacc.edu/wwwroot2/chemweb/index.html. Click on “Related Website Links” for many valuable sites.

American Chemical Society: http://chemistry.org World’s largest scientific organization. Links to Chemistry in the News, job listings, journal articles, experiment ideas, many quality sites.

ChemInfo: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/ From Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.

National Science Digital Library http://nsdl.org/ The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), created by the National Science Foundation, provides "exemplary online resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and research. NSDL provides an organized point of access to collections and services from resource contributors representing the best of public and private institutions including universities, museums,commercial publishers, government agencies, and professional societies."

Scorecard: http://www.scorecard.org By Environmental Defense Fund; pollution rankings, more.

Links for Chemists: http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html From University of Liverpool. 

Los Alamos National Laboratory: http://www.lanl.gov/ Links to chemistry pages, much more. 

Chemguide: Helping You to Understand Chemistry: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/ College-level chemistry site: bonding, organic, inorganic chemistry, instrumental analysis, more.

Household Products Database: http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/products.htm From National Library of Medicine, with data on safety of household chemicals and everyday products.

What’s That Stuff?: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html Feature from American Chemical Society’s journal, Chemical and Engineering News. Explains chemistry of everyday products: lipstick, ink, cement, hair coloring, snack foods, self-tanners, teeth whiteners, more.

Critter Chemistry: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/critter/critterchemistry.html Feature from American Chemical Society’s journal, Chemical and Engineering News. Explains chemistry of animals: saliva, bee chemistry, adhesive gecko toes, frog
development, much more.

The Why Files: http://www.whyfiles.org Answers the question “why?” about many science topics. From University of
Wisconsin.

Safety in the Chemistry Laboratory: http://chemlabs.uoregon.edu/Safety/default.html From University of Oregon: lab safety tips, fire extinguishers, more.

Vermont Safety Information Resources, Inc. http://www2.hazard.com/msds/index.php Searchable list of Material Safety Data Sheets.

Iowa State University: Department of Chemistry http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/ Select from alphabetical list undergraduate laboratory chemicals of MSDS.

General Chemistry Online: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101 From Frostberg University in Maryland.

Elements of Life: http://www.elements-of-life.org/eol_index_flash.html Slick presentation on various elements and their uses, from European Chemical Industry Council.

NIST Chemistry WebBook: http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry Chemical data on thousands of compounds. From National Institute of Standards & Technology.

The ChemCollective: http://ir.chem.cmu.edu - Interactive activities for chemistry courses, from Carnegie Mellon University: Virtual Lab Problems, Scenarios, Tutorials and Simulations.

MyChemistryTutor: http://www.mychemistrytutor.com/ For high school and college students, to help with homework.

MERLOT's Chemistry page http://chemistry.merlot.org/ Collection of top-notch chemistry Web sites, from non-profit educational group, MERLOT.

Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/ Online journal with scholarly scientific and medical articles from "nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource."

University at Albany Libraries’ Chemistry page: http://library.albany.edu/subject/chem.htm Comprehensive, updated list of Web sites on chemistry: dictionaries, safety, chemical data, style manual, more.

Librarians Internet Index: http://lii.org/ Click on Science > Chemistry for many well-reviewed sites, selected by Library of California.

For more information:

Consult a reference librarian at any point in your research. You may also want to see other online ACC Library research guides.

Other research guides that may be useful to you are: Environmental Science, Biology, Botany, and Adirondack Mountains.

Updated Sept. 2008/JM