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AccessScience (McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science Online) - about - This encyclopedia includes over 7100 articles in 81 major areas of science and technology.

Coverage: 9th edition (2002) onwards
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=153

Analytical Abstracts - THIS RESOURCE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 12/31/2009 - about - Covers the current worldwide analytical literature. Serach by keyword including analyte and/or technique.

Coverage: 1980 to present
Alternate Title: Analytical WebBase - THIS RESOURCE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 12/31/2009
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3975364

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Beilstein CrossFire plus Reactions - about - Access to the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry; all modern chemical knowledge since 1771.

Coverage: 1776-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=33

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Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) - about - Records bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for small molecule crystal structures of organic molecules and metal-organic compounds. Also includes structure visualisation and data analysis software.

To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1399945

CASSI (Science Journal Title Verification) IN LIBRARY USE ONLY - ACCESS TO THIS RESOURCE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 12/31/2009 - about - Abbreviations of over 130,000 journal and other serial titles in the chemical, biological, engineering, and physical science fields are linked to their full titles.

Coverage: 1907-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=46

CCINFOweb - about - Information on a broad range of environmental and occupational health and safety topics.

Coverage: NA
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=48

Chicago Manual of Style Online - about - The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.

To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2384486

Conference Papers Index - about - Provides citations to papers and poster sessions at major scientific meetins around the world.

Coverage: 1982 -
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=60

COS - about - Source for funding opportunities or to locate experts on arts, humanities, and scientific topics.

Coverage: 1994-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=58

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - about - physical constants for over 12,000 of the most common chemical substances and many facts about the physical sciences, including conversion factors, health and safety information.

Coverage: 81st ed., 2000/2001 - 84th ed., 2003/2004
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=62

Crossfire (Beilstein and Gmelin) - about - Access to the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry; all modern chemical knowledge since 1771.

Coverage: 1776 -
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=65

CSH Protocols - about - Contains new and classic research techniques covering cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.

Alternate Title: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2982067

Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - about - An online encyclopedia that corresponds to the 5-volume print edition published by Marcel Dekker in 2004.

Coverage: 2004
Alternate Title: Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854920

DGRWeb - about - This free resourch is a comprehensive directory of chemical research and researchers at universities in the United States and Canada.

Coverage: 1997-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=68

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - about - Over 3,000 articles in the life sciences broadly defined with a glossary containing over 7,000 terms.

Alternate Title: ELS
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854916

Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis - about - Procedures for making organic compounds that serve as reagents or reactants in organic chemistry.

Coverage: 1945-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38602

Faculty of 1000 -- Biology - about - Literature awareness tool that highlights and reviews the most interesting biology papers on the basis of their scientific merit not journal in which they appear.

Coverage: mostly 1998 to date
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=500441

Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry - about - Index of the literature of inorganic chemistry from 1771 to the present, covering inorganic and organometallic compounds.

Coverage: 1776-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=99

IUCAT - about - The Indiana University online catalog.

Coverage: Varies
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38591

JCE Web Software - about - Web-ready instructional chemistry software programs.

To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4899622

Journal Citation Reports. Science Edition (JCR) - about - Citation analysis for journals in the sciences

Coverage: 1998-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=138

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - about - Provides in-depth articles with extensive bibliographies about applied chemistry, industrial products, chemical substances either as single substance or group, materials science, and chemical fundamentals.

Coverage: parts of 4th and 5th editions
Alternate Title: Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1954629

Natural Products Updates - about - covers new natural products, known compounds from new sources, isolation studies, structural determinations, new properties and activities, biosynthesis and biological activities

Coverage: 2000-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=162

netLibrary - about - A collection of over 6,000 full text books in a variety of subject areas, fully searchable by author, title, and keyword.

Coverage: varies
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=163

Nineteenth Century Masterfile - about - Indexes to British and American periodicals in the nineteenth century and to British and American official publications, including Hansard and Cobbett's debates

Coverage: Nineteenth Century
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38596

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - about - Comprehensive source for information on doctoral dissertations from universities in the United States and Canada. It also indexes a small number of master's theses.

Coverage: Citations only from 1861- present; from 1980 to present, 350-word abstracts are included on dissertations; from 1988 to present, 150-word abstracts are included on Master's theses; full text is available from 1997 to the present.
Alternate Title: Dissertations and Theses
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=73

PubMed - about - Biomedical citations and abstracts (MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE) from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Additional citations, approximately 1% of the database, are from other sources.

Coverage: 1950-
Alternate Title: Medline
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1577183

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies - about - Russian language monographs, articles, etc. covering economics, demography, philosophy, sociology, history, archeology, ethnography, law, political science, linguistics, literary criticism, religion, and international relations.

Coverage: 1980-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=181

Science Citation Index - about - The most important scientific journal literature is covered, with abstracts for the most recent articles; includes citation searching.

Coverage: 1955-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=183

Science of Synthesis - ACCESS TO THIS RESOURCE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 12/31/2009 - about - Provides a critical digest of the synthetic methodology for the field of organic and organometallic chemistry.

Coverage: 1909-
Alternate Title: Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4433163

Science Signaling - about - A knowledge environment devoted to the study of how cells control their own and each others' behaviors through chemical signals.

Coverage: 1997-
Alternate Title: STKE
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2731499

Science's Next Wave - about - A career development magazine, updated weekly on the Web, that has been published since 1995 by the research journal Science.

Coverage: current
Alternate Title: Next Wave
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59586

ScienceDirect - about - Electronic access to journals published by Elsevier Science and Academic Press.

Coverage: varies; includes current subscriptions and some backfiles
Alternate Title: Elsevier ScienceDirect
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59577

SciFinder Scholar - about - Covers the primary literature of all areas of chemistry, medicine, and other areas, including material in journals, dissertations, technical reports, patents, and conference proceedings.

Coverage: 1907-
Alternate Title: Chemical Abstracts
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=184

Smithsonian Physical Tables - about - Comprising 901 tables of common physical and chemical data, the tables are full-text searchable. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

Coverage: 9th revised edition, 1969
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=500445

SPRESI Chemical Structural and Reaction Database - about - Organic and organometallic compounds and data, containing 3 million chemical reactions from 1975.

Coverage: 1974-[one year ago]
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=191

Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances - about - Heats of formation (except for carbon compounds containing more than two carbons), including heats of transition, fusion, and vaporization

To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=500446

TOXLINE - about - Bibliographic citations and abstracts from all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.

Coverage: 1994-2000
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=197

Web of Knowledge - about - An interface that allows cross-searching of Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, Medline, Zoological Record, and JCR. Not all fields from individual databases are included.

Coverage: 1955-
To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=203

Web of Science - about - Web of Science contains three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (1955-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)

To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3677492

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