Research Guides: Chemistry: Recommended

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Engineering reference sheets

Some engineering material can be difficult to locate. These reference sheets give general information about the resource as well as instructions on how to retrieve the material from the Virginia Tech library collection.

Overview of Chemistry at Virginia Tech

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides guidance on formatting references, plus gives details about the entire scientific publishing process and scientific writing style.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
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Searchable and browsable ebook version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Interactive tables allow live sorting, filtering, and exporting of the data.

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JoVE Science Education
JoVE Science Education provides streaming videos on science fundamentals in biology, psychology, chemistry, environmental sciences, and clinical skills.
Knovel Library
Knovel provides a large collection of ebooks on engineering and related subjects. Each chapter is presented as a separate PDF. The entire collection is full-text searchable, and many results include interactive tables. Includes tables of properties for over 13,000 chemical compounds. Knovel is also searchable through the Engineering Village interface.

Our subscription includes:
Adhesives, Coatings, Sealants & Inks
Aerospace & Radar Technology
ASM International Alloy Information
ASM International Handbooks Online
Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology
Ceramics & Ceramic Engineering
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
Composites
Computer Hardware Engineering
Earth Sciences
Electrical & Power Engineering
Electronics & Semiconductors
Engineering Management & Leadership
Environment & Environmental Engineering
Fire Protection Engineering & Emergency Response
Food Science
General Engineering & Project Administration
Industrial Engineering & Operations Management
Manufacturing Engineering
Marine Engineering & Naval Architecture
Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
Metals & Metallurgy
Mining Engineering & Extractive Metallurgy
Nanotechnology
Nondestructive Testing & Evaluation
Oil & Gas Engineering
Optics & Photonics
Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics & Toiletries
Plastics & Rubber
Process Design, Control & Automation
Regulatory Information
Safety & Industrial Hygiene
Software Engineering
Sustainable Energy & Development
Textiles
Transportation Engineering
Welding Engineering & Materials Joining

Recommended Online Resources

SciFinder
SciFinder Scholar indexes citations and abstracts from Chemical Abstract Services databases and MEDLINE including journal articles, patents, books, conference papers, dissertations, and reports. You can search text-based fields or draw chemical structures. You can perform cited reference searches. 1907-present. Registration is required. Contact Edward Lener, lener@vt.edu, for details.
Reaxys
Reaxys indexes citations, abstracts, full text, and cited reference for journal articles and patents in inorganic, organometallic, and organic chemistry. Search the usual text fields, or draw chemical structures to find matching citations. 1771-present.
KnowItAll AnyWare from Wiley
KnowItAll Anywhere features a browser-based spectral search and retrieval system that includes over 2 million chemical spectra including NMR, IR, Raman, UV-Vis, and mass spectra. An optional desktop version provides advanced search features and additional tools.
Scopus
Scopus indexes citations of journal articles, conference papers, and books in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You can perform cited reference searches. You can compare authors, institutions, and journals using various metrics. 1800s-present
Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics
The three Web of Science databases index citations from journal articles and conference proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. You can perform cited reference searches, analyze trends and patterns, and create visual representations of citation relationships. 1900-present
Analytical Abstracts from Royal Society of Chemistry
Analytical Abstracts indexes citations and abstracts of journal articles in chemistry. You can search for specific analytes, matrices or techniques. 1980-present.
ChemIDplus Advanced
Searches the NLM ChemIDplus database of over 370,000 chemicals and displays numerous properties. Search capabilities include chemical structure, toxicity, and physical property data.
ChemRxiv
ChemRxiv provides pre-prints of chemistry articles before they are published in peer-reviewed journals. 2017-present.
Derwent Innovations Index from Web of Science
Derwent Innovations Index indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text patents from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. You can view concise abstracts written by subject experts, then link to full-text primary records of patents from a range of full patent sources. 1963-present

Derwent Innovations Index facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. Derwent Innovations Index covers over 14.3 million basic inventions from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. You can view concise abstracts written by subject experts, then link to full-text primary patent records from a range of full patent sources.

This resource merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. You can use additional descriptive information and coding to quickly grasp a patent's significance and its relationship to other patents. Reduce duplication of R&D; track competitors' activities; detect and avoid patent infringement; identify potential gaps in the marketplace and possible licensing opportunities.
IUPAC Standards Online from deGruyter
IUPAC Standards Online is a compilation of the internationally-binding standards and recommendations for chemistry and related fields created by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). These provide authoritative information on chemical nomenclature, symbols, terminology, units, weights, measures, and similar scientific conventions.
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
JoVE is a platform for online journals that provide peer-reviewed videos and articles on scientific experiments. We currently subscribe to the behavior, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, immunology and infection, medicine, and neuroscience sections.
Polymers: A Property Database
Scientific and commercial information on polymers. Search by monomer, applications, properties (mechanical, electrical, calorimetric, solubility, or surface), or manufacturing process.

Polymers- A Property Database contains almost 1000 polymers and 1500 monomers all cross referenced.

There are two sections of the database that can be searched independently, 'Polymers' and 'Monomers'. Monomers can be searched by structure and/or properties. You may use the monomers you have identified to cross-reference to polymer entries, or you may use the extensive property search capabilities on the polymers data directly.

The polymers section of the database can be searched using 92 possible properties combined in any way you choose. These are grouped into the following sections:

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