Graduate Chemistry Research Guide
Background Information
Review
Articles
Review articles provide an extensive survey
of the literature on a topic and are a valuable way of obtaining background
information. Many chemistry journals publish review articles on selected
topics.
Some databases, such as SciFinder Scholar,
allow you to limit your search to locate only review articles. This is
the most efficient way to locate review articles on a topic.
Some journals publish mostly review articles.
These include:
Chemical Reviews
D. H. Hill QD1 .C41
Full-text
articles (v. 96, 1996-present) available online
Chemical Society Reviews
QD1 .C439
Full-text
articles (issue 1, 1998- ) available online
Books
Both general background and in-depth information
may be found in books and textbooks. Many chemistry books cover a specific
compound or family of compounds in either a single volume or a series.
Locate books on your subject by searching
the library
catalog. Some search tips are provided below. Use the pull-down
menu to select the type of search you wish to perform.
If you know the title or author of a specific
book, you can search by Title or by Author.
To locate books on a specific subject, try searching
by Keyword or Subject Heading. A Keyword search looks for a word or words
in the title, subject terms, and other parts of the catalog record. Subject
searches use very specific, predefined subject terms. One method for searching
is to begin with a Keyword search, and then look at your results. If you
find a good book, look at the Subject Heading terms and click on a specific
term to focus your search.
For more information, select "Examples/Help"
in the gray box on the catalog search page.
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Encyclopedias
and Dictionaries
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
D. H. Hill Reference TP9 .E685 1992
Encyclopedia of Analytical
Chemistry
D. H. Hill Reference QD71.5 .E52 2000
Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry
D. H. Hill Reference QD39.3.E46 E53 1998
Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry
D. H. Hill Reference QD148 .E53 1994
Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology
D. H. Hill Reference Q123 . E497 1992
Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
D. H. Hill Reference QD95 .E55 2000
Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary,
13th ed.
D. H. Hill Reference Desk QD5 .C5 1997
Industrial Inorganic Chemicals and Products
: an Ullmann's Encyclopedia
D. H. Hill Reference TP9 .I53 1998
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry
D. H. Hill Reference QD4 .M33 1997
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science &
Technology.
D. H. Hill Reference Q121 .M3 1997
Van Nostrand Reinhold Encyclopedia of
Chemistry, 4th ed.
D. H. Hill Reference Desk QD5 .V37 1984
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