Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: Reference

Coverage: Began in 2000?

Description: Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1983-

Description: Indexes international English-language periodicals in applied sciences and technology, including engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-realted disciplines.

Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1980-

Description: Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.

Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.

Type: Reference

Coverage: Database V5.17(1999:Apr.)-

Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Chemistry Physics Library Reference Desk.

Description: Contains published crystallographic data on organic, organometallic, and metal complex structures.

* Protein Data Bank

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1907/1996

Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download

* See also SciFinder Scholar which retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service.

Description: Lists publication abbreviations used in Chemical Abstracts, as well as many abbreviations used in article/book bibliographies; also provides complete bibliographic details for any publication cited in CA or the CAS databases.

Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

Type: Reference

Description: Allows searching of the CS database by chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight.

Type: Reference

Coverage: 80th ed.(1999/2000)

Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download

Description: Contains frequently used data in chemistry and physics (basic constants, units, and conversion factors; symbols, terminology, and nomenclature; physical constants of organic compounds; properties of the elements and inorganic compounds; information on molecular structure; etc.)

Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download

Description: Chemical information system comprising Beilstein Database, Gmelin Database, AutoNom, CrossFire search and retrieval server software, and Beilstein Commander client. Allows search and display of chemical information by substances (structures and properties), reactions, or bibliographic citations. Beilstein database contains literature of organic chemistry from 1779 to date; Gmelin database contains that of inorganic and organometallic chemistry from 1817 to date. AutoNom (Automatic Nomenclature) generates IUPAC systematic nomenclature directly from structure diagrams of organic compounds. Beilstein and Gmelin databases are updated 4 times a year.

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Type: Reference

Description: Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), and the Britannica book of the year.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1984-

Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.

Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1969-

Description: Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: Offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Many tables have been "knovelized" to be interactive. The full text of the original print version is available in PDF format (full- text searchable), including original index. All entries in index hyperlinked to their page numbers.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: kCT is a brand new reference featuring tables of properties for commonly used chemical compounds in the physical properties tables. kCT has expanded the original 6,000 chemical compounds in the physical properties tables of International Critical Table. Using multiple sources, kCT contains the most up-to-date chemical properties information available online.

Type: Reference

Coverage: version 12:3(1999)

Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download

Description: Database of more than 10,000 monographs (covering human and veterinary drugs, biologicals, natural products, agricultural compounds, commercial and laboratory chemicals and environmentally significant compounds) from the 12th ed. of the Merck index.

Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.

Type: eBooks & eTexts

Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.

Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.

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Type: Reference, eBooks & eTexts, Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: Provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.

Type: Reference

* Password may be required, located in holdings record. Ask at reference desk.

Description: Provides information on the syntheses, structures, properties, and applications of more than 200 important polymeric materials.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/SciFinder Scholar. If you do not find this on your start menu, Windows and Macintosh users may download the software from http://www.nd.edu/~chemlib/databases/scifinder.htm

Description: Provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. On knovel, the Smithsonian physical tables are now easy to navigate and are full-text searchable. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Description: This reference is a revision of the table of values for the heats of formation in the thermochemistry section in International Critical Tables. It includes 5,840 values of heats of formation and 350 values of heats of transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1975-

Description: "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.

Users: Licensed for 8 simultaneous users; please be sure to 'logout' so others may 'login.'

Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Graduate School and the Provost's Office for their generous support in helping the University Libraries make this acquisition possible.

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