Sax’s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials provides name, hazard rating, molecular formula, line structural formula, descriptions, toxicology data and unique codes for approximately 26,000 substances.
If you’d like assistance using this reference source, contact Paulina Borrego, Chemistry Liaison, at 413-545-7891.
From AOAC International, Official Methods of Analysis provides standards for methods of chemical analysis. You can search by keyword, category (analyte, matrices, approval body, equipment/technique or method number), full-text or combine approaches with an advanced search.
If you have questions or would like assistance using this resource, contact Paulina Borrego, Chemistry Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-7891.
Cambridge Structural Database WebCSD is now available online. It contains crystal structure, chemical, and bibliographic data for about 400,000 organic and metal-organic compounds. You can conduct searches by substructure, reduced cell, similarity and text/numeric properties.
If you have questions or comments, contact Paulina Borrego, Chemistry Liaison Librarian at 413-545-7891.
The UMass Amherst Libraries now subscribes to Reaxys which includes the authoritative Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. This new source from Elsevier provides a web-based search and retrieval system for organic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry data from about 3800 journals and patents from U.S., World and European patent publications. You can query the database by drawing a structure or reaction, typing text, or loading a previously saved structure or reaction.
The Libraries previously had a subscription to the Beilstein database on the Crossfire platform. In addition to Beilstein, Reaxys provides more extensive data from the Gmelin and Patent Chemistry sources. The legacy Crossfire Commander software client can still be used, but this access will be discontinued in August, 2010. Users are encouraged to use Reaxys now to benefit from the increased coverage and functionality.
If you would like assistance using Reaxys, or have questions, contact Paulina Borrego, Chemistry Liaison Librarian at pborrego@library.umass.edu or 413-545-7891.
The National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs provides brief biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Science, written by people who best knew their work. “These biographies provide a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America’s most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States.”
The Reaxys database includes content from the Elsevier sources Beilstein Crossfire, Gmelin Crossfire, and Chemical Patents. It is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions.
Reaxys will be on trial through June 30th. Please contact Paulina Borrego, Chemistry Library Liaison, with questions or comments, 413-545-789.
We now have a subscription to the Web Thermo Tables (WTT) Professional Edition from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. WTT “represents a complete collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data primarily for pure organic compounds.”
For assistance using this resource, conact Paulina Borrego, 545-7891, or Cecilia Mullen, 577-1254.
Bentham Science Publishers is offering trial access to its electronic journals and patent information through BenthamDirect. Access to this trial continues through October 20th, 2008. Provide comments through your subject librarian.
Long available only with the Scholar client, you can now register for an account to search SciFinder via the web. When you register for a web account, you’ll receive your own username and password. This, in conjunction with IP authentication of a computer on the UMass network, will enable you to search SciFinder through your web browser, rather than with the Scholar client.
To register for a SciFinder web account and to connect to the SciFinder web version, visit the Library’s SciFinder page. Should you want to download the SciFinder Scholar client, it’s available from this page too.
The Library has purchased access to SciFinder for 6 simultaneous users. Please, when you finish your work, logoff SciFinder so others can connect to it.
For more information about the database, visit the SciFinder site. If you would like assistance using SciFinder, contact the Chemistry librarian, Paulina Borrego.
The UMass Amherst Libraries have obtained trial access to the Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases, to complement our existing subscription to Beilstein. All three databases are available on the Crossfire platform via the Crossfire Commander Client.
Crossfire Gmelin is a searchable source of structures and properties in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, including 2 million reactions and 2.5 million compounds.
Patent Chemistry Database is a searchable index of chemical reactions, substances and substance related information from organic chemistry and life sciences publications (World, U.S. and European) since 1976, including 4 million reactions and 5 million compounds.
For information on connecting to these trial databases, please contact Paulina Borrego, Chemistry Liaison Librarian. The trial is available until August 20th, 2008.