Study Guides: Chemistry: Home

Welcome

This guide will help Chemistry students find the information they need for their studies. This guide will cover:

how to plan your search
finding books, articles and reports
APA 7th referencing

Key resources for Chemistry

Reference Materials

Access Science Access Science is an electronic encyclopedia that you can use as a general reference for science and technology topics.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics This book provides reference information of chemistry and physics.
Gardner's Commercially Important Chemicals: Synonyms, Trade Names, and Properties This book Contains 4,174 chemical entries and information such as structure, molecular formula, and chemical name.
Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Patty's Industrial Hygiene presents valuable information on the recognition and evaluation of chemical agents, physical agents, and biohazards in the workplace, as well as engineering control of exposure and personal protection.

Databases

UTS online chemical inventory database (OCID) The UTS online chemical inventory database (OCID) holds chemical manifest information.
UTS Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Anyone at UTS can search for Safety Data Sheets of chemical compounds without logging in. Note that this webapp is only available within UTS.
Merck Index: An encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs & Biologicals The Merck Index is an searchable database of chemicals, drugs and biologicals with over 10,000 monograph on single substances or groups of related compounds published online by the Royal Society of Chemistry.[
SciFinderⁿ chemical engineering, industrial chemistry, materials science, biochemistry, pharmacology and medicine. The database also includes patents, conference papers, pre-prints and reviews
BioCyc Microbial Genomes and Metabolic Pathways Web Portal BioCyc is a collection of 14728 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for exploring them [Karp17].
ProQuest Science & Technology Provides journal articles, conference papers, theses, books, and reports.
Scopus A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers.
Web of Science A citation database including journal articles from 11000 high impact factor journals, and conference papers
PubMed The National Library of Medicine's free search service, providing access to millions of citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE and other related databases.

You can also view the Library's complete collection of Chemistry Databases by clicking the link below:

Chemistry Databases A link to UTS Library's collection of chemistry databases.

Resource types

There are a range of information types that will be useful to you. Your job is to decide what your information needs are and to find the right information to fill that need.

The table below summarises some of the types of information that will help you, and the following pages in this guide go into further detail on ways to find this information.

Books

Useful for providing an overview of a topic or issue. Contains background information and context and is very useful as a starting point for research, especially if you are new to the topic.

Journal Articles

Contains the latest research on very specific topics and often contains in-depth analysis. Journal articles are published more quickly than books so can be used to find more up to date information.

Policies & Reports

This includes government policies, guidelines, industry reports and statistics. They often contain an overview of an issue as it applies to a specific industry, region, state, country or worldwide.

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