Welcome! This site is a guide to chemistry information sources available through the Texas A&M Libraries. Please contact the Subject Specialist Librarian for individual or group instruction, library purchase recommendations, and suggestions for these subject guide pages.

Writing Resources

• ACS Style Guide (Ch. 14 - References)
• ACS Style Guide (Print)
  Reference Desk QD8.5 .A25 2006
• Citing Sources
• University Writing Center
  

Core Reference Databases

• ASM Materials Information Online
  
• CINDAS TPMD
  
• Discovery Gate (Beilstein, Gmelin, more)
• Installation PCs
• Installation Macs
  
• CRC ChemNetBase
  
• CRC EngNetBase (~900 handbooks)
  
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD for WWW)
  
• Knovel  (handbooks, interactive data interface)
  
• Organic Reactions
  
• Organic Syntheses
  
• Science of Synthesis (Houben-Weyl)
  
• More Reference Texts:
• Referex in Ei Village
  
• Science Direct
• SpringerLink Books
  
• Wiley Interscience
  
• Annotated List of Chemistry Reference Sources
  

E-Book Databases

Most, but not all, e-books have records in LibCat (title, author, subjects); to search the full text of e-books use the e-book databases.

• eBrary (multidisciplinary)
  
• EngNetBase (~900 CRC handbooks)
• Knovel (~800 engineering handbooks; interactive data interface)
• netLibrary (multidisciplinary)
• Referex (reference titles & texts)
  
• Safari (computing applications & languages)
• Science Direct (reference titles & texts)
• Springer Online (multidisciplinary)
  
• Synthesis Digital Library (engineering, computer science)
  
• Wiley (reference titles)

Office Hours

Please feel free to contact me at any time via email, phone or in-person. In addition to Evans Library Room 111E, I can also be found in Chemistry Building Room 117 on the  the following days/times:

Thursday 10:00 am - Noon
Friday 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Find Articles

Search article indexes/databases; use the Find Text@TAMU link (or the ChemPort link in SciFinder) for text retrieval options.

• Academic Search (multidisciplinary)
  

• CSA (biological, environmental, materials research, toxicology)
  
• SciFinder (chemistry)
  
• Scopus (multidisciplinary science)
  
• Web of Science (multidisciplinary science)
  
• Annotated List of Chemistry Article & Report Databases
  

Journal Quick Links

About Journals

• Journal abbreviations
  
• UBC | CAplus Core Journals | ISI Journals
  
• CASSI (print, Evans reference)
  
• Ulrich's Directory (publishing information)
• Journal Citation Reports (journal rankings)
  

LibCat journal searches for...

Analytical chemistry
Atmospheric chemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry
Biological chemistry
Bioorganic chemistry
Catalysis
Chemical education
Chemistry of interfaces
Chemistry of materials
Chemistry of polymers
Inorganic chemistry
Inorganic synthesis
Nuclear chemistry
Organic chemistry
Organic synthesis
Pharmaceutical chemistry
Physical chemistry
Spectroscopy
Supramolecular chemistry
Theoretical chemistry

Top 20 Journal Lists by JCR Impact Factor

Analytical Chemistry
Inorganic/Nuclear Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry