Electronic Databases
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- Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal atricles in all subject categories.
- ACS Publications Full text of 26 American Chemical Society publications are available through an agreement with the University of Wisconsin System. Web editions include full text from January 1996 to the current issue.
- Applied Science Full Text
Indexes and abstracts for 760 science and technology journals, from as far back as 1983.
- General Science Full Text Indexes and abstracts and full text articles from popular and professional science publications.
- GEOREF This database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy, engineering geology and geophysics.
- IEEE Xplore IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.
- IoP (Institute of Physics) Electronic Journals Over 30 journals published by the Institute of Physics. Includes full-text articles and is searchable and browsable. (Select Standard Service for access.)
- Journal of Chemical Education Electronic version of the monthly print edition. September 1996 vol. 73:9 to the present are available.
- Knovel Scientific & Engineering Online References Online collection of Scientific and engineering reference books. Keyword searchable or by titles. Best used with Internet Explorer.
- MEDLINE Provides complete coverage to the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Nature
Online version of the International Weekly Journal of science. Contains full text of archived content as well. Also provides access to Nature's other journal titles.
- Pollution Abstracts Indexing to journal articles on all aspects of pollution and waste management.
- Readers' Guide Full Text
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area Index Tables)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Archives Full text access to over 238,000 original articles published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (and its forerunner Societies) from 1841 to 1996.
- Science Online Magazine
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
- Web of Science Citation DatabasesProvides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Together they index over 8,000 scholarly journals and can be searched by author, topic or citation.
- General Electronic Databases
Comprehensive Sites on Chemistry
Related Sites at UW-Platteville/Karrmann Library
Chemistry at UW-Platteville
- The Chemistry Office is located in 201 Ottensman. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1651.
- Regina Pauly is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Chemistry & Physics program. Contact Regina at (608) 342-1099 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in chemistry. His e-mail address is paulyr@uwplatt.edu.