Open Access Journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Axe Library is now providing access to open access journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry with access up to about 2 years ago for most titles. The journals are all indexed by databases such as Compendex, SciFinder, and Academic Search Premier. To access the full text of the journals, go to the library’s website at http://axe.pittstate.edu/ and click on the “Journals” tab in the center of the page. You may search by journal title, words in the title, ISSN, or subject. Additionally, if you are in a database, such as SciFinder, click on a link that says “Full Text” or “Article Linker” or “360 Link.” This will allow you to easily find out if the Library has the needed journal article in print or electronic access to it. Here is a list of the available titles:

Analyst
Chemical communications
Chemical Society Reviews
Contemporary Organic Synthesis
CrystEngComm
Dalton Transactions
Education in Chemistry
Energy & environmental science
Faraday discussions
Green Chemistry
Highlights in chemical biology
Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
Journal of Chemical Research, Synopses
Journal of Environmental Monitoring
Journal of Materials Chemistry
Lab on a Chip
Mendeleev Communications
Molecular bioSystems
Natural Product Reports
New Journal of Chemistry
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
Pesticide outlook
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
Russian Chemical Reviews
Soft Matter

If you have any questions about journals or databases, please do not hesitate to call 620-235-4884 or 620-235-4894.

A New Journal in ACS Publications Database

A new journal, titled ACS Nano, is now available in the ACS Publications database. An email from the American Chemical Society notes that:

"ACS Nano is a new international forum for the communication of comprehensive article on nanoscience and nanotechnology research at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics, and engineering."

In addition to research articles, ACS Nano also contains reviews and other types of articles of importance in this area. The first issue of ACS Nano features articles by Drs. David Allara, Hongjie Dai, and Prashant Kamat, along with a conversation with Nobel Laureate Heinrich Rohrer and a special editorial by Editor-in-Chief Paul Weiss. To access ACS Nano, go to the Axe Library homepage and click on the "Serials Solutions" link. The journal content is also accessible in Article Linker if you searching in a different database.

-BP

Chemical Information: SIS

Chemical Information : SIS (Specialized Information Services) is a division of the National Library of Medicine and contains links to many free resources on chemistry, including ChemIDplus, TOXLINE, HSDB, DART, GENETOX, IRIS, ITER, LactMed, TOXMAP, and many others.

ChemIDplus alone contains more than 379,000 chemical records with 257,000 having the chemical structures displayed in the record. ChemIDplus is searchable by name, synonym, Chemical Abstracts Registry Service Number (CASRN), molecular formula, NLM and Superlist classification codes, NLM and government identifier locator code, and structure. ChemIDplus is easily searchable with any special plug-ins for simplified searching and increased access. Search results return results pointing to databases on toxicology, cancer research, genetics, hazardous materials handling, links to journal article citations, Internet resources with biomedical data, and pointers to federal and state regulatory agency lists that contains information about the search compound.

Other databases in Chemical Information : SIS include HSDB, or Household Substances Data Bank, which contain comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals, and TOXLINE, which contains References from toxicology literature.

Another database within in Chemical Information: SIS is LactMed, a peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

Further information about the Chemical Information: SIS website is available at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemical.html. For Axe Library sources and more websites in chemistry, please visit Axe Library’s Research Guide in Chemistry. Please do not hesitate to contact the Reference Desk at Axe Library (ext. 4894) if you have any questions about this or other resources.

-BP