Graduate Chemistry Research Research Guide
Keeping up with the Literature
More than half a million
chemistry articles are published each year in 100s of chemistry journals.
Keeping current with the chemistry literature presents an enormous challenge.
The resources listed on
this page include tools to help you not only keep current with the literature,
but also assist you in monitoring and managing information.
Alert
Services
Alert services help keep you
up-to-date with the literature by providing regular email "alerts."
Two types of alerts are Table of Contents (TOC) alerts that send you the
TOCs of specific journals as soon as they are published. Topical alerts
allow you to set up searches on specific topics. The alert service performs
the search at regular intervals and sends you the results. If NCSU Libraries
has a subscription to the online version of a journal, the alerts will
provide links to the full-text articles.
Alert services available
at NCSU include:
American Chemical Society
E-mail Alerts
Ingenta
(formerly Carl Uncover) Alerts
ScienceDirect
(Elsevier journals) Alerts
Ideal
(Academic Press and other publishers) Alerts
MyLibrary@NCState
MyLibrary is an information
portal that you can personalize to display and provide links to the information
resources (electronic journals, databases, web sites, etc.) that you find
most useful. When you set up a MyLibrary account, you can select a discipline
and the modify the choices to reflect your preferences. Go
to MyLibrary to set up your account.
Managing
References
NCSU Libraries supports
the use of RefWorks and EndNote software for bibliographic management. With these
tools, you can download search results directly into your own database
of citations. The database can include information such as title, author,
publication information, keywords, and abstracts. This allows you to build
your own collection of references and assemble these references into a
correctly formatted bibliography for papers and articles.
Selected
Resources for Research and Writing
The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors, 2d. ed.,
The American Chemical Society.
D. H. Hill Reference Desk QD8.5 .A25 1997
How to Find Chemical Information: A Guide for Practicing Chemists,
Educators, and Students, 3d ed. by Robert E. Maizell. Wiley-Interscience.
D. H. Hill Library QD8.5 M34 1998
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