Electronic resources for Chemistry and Materials Science

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Electronic resources for Chemistry and Materials
Science

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Session overview

• E-resources for research in Chemistry and
  Materials
• Electronic resources on Oxlip
• How to find databases, e-journals, e-books
• Key databases and how to search them
• Chance to practise
• Chemistry and Materials Science Guides to
  resources
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl/e-resources/ - RSL
  web site
• Chemistry Information Departmental web site

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Electronic resources at Oxford

• Access all electronic resources from
• Oxford Libraries Information Platform Oxlip
• http//oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
• The meta search engine provides access to
  electronic databases,
• e-journals, e-books, standards online, conference
  proceeding
• Direct access from University network (no
  password)
• Remote access Use your Oxford SSO Login
• Some resources may require personal registration
  (e.g. SciFinder)

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Chemistry research

• E-databases
• Electronic equivalent of
• abstracts and indexes
• Published research
• International coverage
• Subject specific coverage
• Include thousands of
• scientific journals
• Mainly peer reviewed journals
• Provide abstracts

• for Chemistry
• SciFinder on the Web (includes Chemical
  Abstracts)
• Crossfire Beilstein Gmelin
• (organic and inorganic chemistry)
• Web of Science with
• Conference Proceedings

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SciFinder on the Web New portal!

• SciFinder on the Web
• Covers all areas of
• chemistry, biochemistry,
• materials from 1907.
• Indexes over 100000
• journals, patents, books
• proceedings, reports, etc.
• Provides references,
• substances and reactions
• Personal registration required!
• Go to Oxlip
• Click on the SciFinder link
• Login using Oxford SSO
• Follow the link to registration page

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Crossfire Beilstein Gmelin

• Crossfire databases
• Beilstein Organic Chemistry database
• Gmelin Inorganic Chemistry database
• Search for substances
• reactions, structure, and
• methods of preparation.

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Materials Science research

• CSA Materials Research database with
• METADEX
• Covers over 3,000 periodicals, conference
  proceedings,
• technical reports, trade journals, patents...
• Comprises 15 materials specific databases
• Provides references and abstracts
• Links to available full-text articles and OLIS
• Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)

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Electronic journals

• Oxford University e-journals
• http//ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
• More than 40 000 e-journals
• Links into publishers web sites for full-text
  articles
• Links from electronic databases to full-text
  article
• (e.g. SciFinder)

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Union Catalogue of Oxford Libraries

• Accessing Oxfords print collections
• SOLO Search Oxford Libraries Online
• http//solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ (Resource discovery
  portal)
• Search for print material in libraries, e-books
• and Oxford Research Archive (ORA)
• OLIS - Union Catalogue of Oxford Libraries
• http//www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/
• (request a book from the RSL stack or check your
• borrowing record)

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• Contacts
• Dr Karl Harrison
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Oxford
• karl.harrison_at_chem.ox.ac.uk
• Ljilja Ristic, MSc Chem PGDiplLIS MCLIP
• Physical Sciences Librarian Subject Consultant
• Radcliffe Science Library
• ljilja.ristic_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk