Library: CHEM301: Writing & Citing

Dr. McCann's Assignment

Reaxys This link opens in a new window
The Reaxys database provides detailed information on the reactions and properties, including bioactivities, of millions of chemical substances, including organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemicals. The database is searchable by chemical structures, reactions, specific properties, and literature references. Data are obtained from journal articles and chemical patents. Reaxys includes comprehensive and up-to-date journal and patent coverage from 16,000 journals and 105 patent offices, totaling some 100 million documents and 35 million patents.
ACS Publications This link opens in a new window
This database is a key starting point for research in Chemistry. It includes full text of the 92 research journals published by the American Chemical Society.

Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) Browser
Use MeSH Browser to explore NIH medical subject headings.

MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window
This database, produced by the National Library of Medicine, provides indexing for the world's comprehensive life sciences and biomedical literature. It includes abstracts for 33+ million articles in 5,600+ journals currently published worldwide and provides direct links to 14+ million full-text articles.
Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.
Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Biological Abstracts is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest single comprehensive database. It includes records for some 40 million items, with 25+ million immediately available in full-text. It covers all subject areas and includes newspapers and other news sources, general and specialized magazines, and scholarly journals. It is an excellent starting place for most undergraduate research.
Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.
Contents indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.

Google Scholar
This database, freely available from Google, is one of the most important scholarly databases, especially in the natural and social sciences. It brings the power of Google to the search for academic/scholarly publications, including journal articles, books, theses and dissertations, and other research documents. Google creates this database from "academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites" -- website. It has incredibly powerful citation searching features, which enable you to easily locate sources that cite a particular document (using the "Cited by" feature) and to find similar documents which often share related citations (using the "Related Articles" feature).

When using Google Scholar off campus, be sure to set your Scholar Preferences to use the Shippensburg University proxy to access library full-text through the "Full-Text@My Library" linking feature.

Synthesis Matrix
Use the synthesis matrix to keep track of what each of your sources has to say about each of your main ideas/topics. Then you can compare/contrast information as you write.

ACS Style Quick Guide (Shippensburg University Library)
Examples of ACS style citations, created by Shippensburg University librarians.

The ACS Style Guide by Lorrin R. Garson (Editor); Anne M. Coghill (Editor)
Call Number: QD8.5.A25 2006
ISBN: 9780841239999
Publication Date: 2006
Shippensburg provides online access through the ACS Publications database (see link above) and has a copy of the paper copy on the Style Manuals shelf.