Goal: To give an overview of the availability of electronic resources in Chemistry made available by Lehigh's library services.

Before proceeding, you might to glance over this webpage, which gives an overview of Lehigh University library resources in the sciences.
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SciFinder Scholar 2001
Science Citation Index
Other Science Databases
Electronic Journals
Infodome
Obtaining Copies of Papers
Contact Information For Further Assistance
 
 

SciFinder Scholar 2001

What it is: an easy to use search interface for chemical literature and chemical information that you can download to your computer.

This discussion is about SciFinder Scholar 2001, a search interface which supersedes SciFinder Scholar 2000. If you have the latter on your machine, deinstall it and install SciFinder Scholar 2001.

See here for details about the new features that come with SciFinder Scholar 2001.
 

Installing SciFinder Scholar

Go here for directions on downloading the new SciFinder Scholar 2001 software.
 

Content and Coverage of SciFinder Scholar

Search Techniques (online demo)

Capabilities (not necessarily exhaustive):

• Author searching
• Research topic searching
• Refining the search
• Search history
• Substance identifier searching
• Linking to additional information
• Chemport
• Statistical ranking feature and its applications
• Cited references
• Citing references
• Browse by table of contents
• Company name searching
• Structure searching
• Reaction searching

If you want to learn more about SciFinder Scholar, see:

• CAS webpage about SciFinder Scholar
• Link to in-depth review of the features of SciFinder Scholar 2001, in PDF format, at this webpage.

Allows you to start with a document and find references that cite it. This way you can build up a bibliography of related works.
 

Access

CD: CDs are loaded on a computer behind the help desk in the lobby of Fairchild-Martindale. Years represented are 1991-present.

Paper: The paper version of Science Citation Index is also available for years: 1961-1995 See REFERENCE FM-1-INDEX
 

Online tutorials

• "Cited Reference Searching: An Introduction"
• "Sample Cited Reference Search: Science Citation Index on Compact Disc"

• Multi-year searching capabilities
• "Dirty data"--see "Cited Reference Variations"

Click here to get an idea as to what journals are covered in Science Citation Index.

Note the various subject areas of coverage for chemistry.
 

For more information. . .

• Help information is available at the CD station
• For help using the paper volumes, see inside covers of SCI volumes for help documentation.

SciFinder Scholar and Science Citation Index are only two of the databases that Lehigh's libraries make available. See here for an alphabetical and subject breakdown of databases. Some databases on this list worth considering for chemistry research:

• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts

• Chemical Abstracts Student Edition

• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

• INSPEC--see Lehigh's help documentation for searching INSPEC. Includes coverage of Physical Chemistry topics. Examples are: chemical kinetics, reaction mechanisms, polymer reactions, photochemistry, electrochemistry, radiation chemistry, chemical thermodynamics, surface chemistry.  See INSPEC Classification 1999 ,  025.06 I59c 1999 in FM Reference area,  for details of coverage.

If you have used bibliographic databases to find references and abstracts for papers that look interesting, how do you actually locate the paper(s) that are of interest to you?

(1.) First, check ASA to see if Lehigh has the journal, either in paper or electronic format. Go here for information about ASA.
(Also, check to see if there is a full text linkage from the bibliographic database you search.)

(2.) If not, you may want to see if one of the regional libraries has the journal.

(3.) You may order the article through interlibrary loan. An additional way to find papers: browse the tables of contents of recent issues or archived (bound) copies in the library, or look for relevant electronic journals browsable here by title or linked on ASA.
 

At any point in your research, email Brian Simboli if you have any questions. You may also call me at x5003 or drop by my office at Room 633 in Fairchild-Martindale Library. On Tuesday afternoons I am usually in the consulting office behind the help desk on the first floor of the library.