Summary for Chemistry Honours and Postgraduate students
Before you start research in chemistry, make sure you know at least about the following library materials and services. See each link for more detail.
- Help
Chemistry librarian
- Databases for finding journal articles
SciFinder Scholar (Chemical abstracts) - the main chemical literature source; has structure searching.
Web of science - to find articles that have cited given articles and to set up email alerts.
Journal citation reports - to find impact factors for journals.
Dissertation abstracts and Index to theses - to find North American and British theses; note that SciFinder also includes theses.
Libraries Australia (Kinetica) - to find other Libraries holding a book or journal.
Library catalogue - to find all print and electronic books and journals in or accessible through the Library.
- EndNote software to store and manage your references
You can import references from databases and automatically format the citations and bibliography in your own article in an output style of your choice.
- Electronic journals
You can search the Library catalogue to find individual journals
or browse a list of chemistry journals.
- New books received in the Library.
- Patents
- Data sources - print and electronic
Note the classic comprehensive works which the chemical literature will refer to:
Beilstein, Houben-Weyl, Dictionary of organic compounds for organic chemistry.
Gmelin for inorganic and organometallic chemistry.
- Document delivery - Interlibrary loan, Intercampus loan
If books and journals are not available through the Barr Smith Library, we can get them for you from other Libraries.
- Borrowing from Flinders or Uni of SA
You can use your student or staff card to borrow directly from Flinders and the University of South Australia.
- Australasian digital theses program
You should deposit your own Masters or PhD thesis electronically.
- Image and Copy Centre
The ICC will print copies of your thesis.
- Frequently asked questions for Science postgraduates
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