Chemistry & Biochemistry: Home

• SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)
  SciFinder (1907 to present) is a comprehensive source for chemical information, covering scientific journals, patents, conference proceedings, and technical reports. SciFinder requires each user to create their own account for access.
• Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
  Web of Science  (1988 to present) is a multidisciplinary index that covers the sciences, social sciences, and arts &  humanities.Coverage includes scholarly journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, and more. Web of Science includes the following citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900 to present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 to present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present), Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes (1990 to present; >110,000 conferences). 
• Reaxys (CSUF does not subscribe)
• PubChem (contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules)
• PubMed (NLM)
  PubMed (1948 to present) is a comprehensive index to biomedical and life sciences journals.
• ScienceDirect
  Provides access to scholarly and peer reviewed journals in all areas of science.
• EBSCOhost
  General database that covers a wide range of research resources, including core subjects such as applied science, art, education, humanities, law, social science, business, and technology.
• Journal Citation Reports
  Citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals in science, technology, and social sciences. You can find the most frequently cited journals in a field, highest impact journals in a field, largest journals in a field.
• Google Scholar
  Scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports and more.

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ChemSketch is a free software, similar to ChemDraw, containing functions such as making chemical movies (above).

Other free drawing software includes:

• ChemDraw Free Trial 
  (for two weeks)
• Symyx Draw
• MarvinSketch
• BKchem

Free molecular graphics and visualization programs:

• RasMol (biological macromolecule structures)
• Discovery Studio Visulaizer 3.0 (proteins and modeling data)
• Protein Data Bank (PDB)
• Molecular Graphics Software Links

American Chemical Sociey (ACS)
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC)

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Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS Online)
Over one million Materials Safety Data Sheets. A Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is a summary of information on a given chemical identifying material, health, and physical hazards, exposure limits, and precautions.

Start with the LIBRARY CATALOG

A call number is an identification number (consisting of characters and numbers), used to identify and locate materials within a library. Library of Congress Classification - Sciences

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