Contains a wide variety of content from journal articles to information on chemical structures, properties, and reactions
SciFinder-n is the new interface for the most comprehensive index to the chemical literature and related sciences, including chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, & nanotechnology. Search 52 million article, patent, and conference references, the CAS Registry of 161 million chemical substances (many include property data) & CASREACT database of 126 million chemical reactions and preparations. Search by topic, reaction, or chemical substance (Registry number, structure, substructure).
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Chemical Substances (CAS REGISTRY)
References (CAplus)
Reactions (CASREACT)
Chemical Suppliers (CHEMCATS)
Regulated Chemicals (CHEMLIST)
Markush (MARPAT; Substances in patents)
*use the Structure Drawing Editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions
*Created by CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society)
*Serves as an electronic version of Chemical Abstracts providing references from more than 9500 journals
*Contain patents from over 50 patent-issuing organizations
*Contains the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information
List of electronic resources sorted by title with the option to search for a specific database
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Includes 100 eBooks in the American Chemical Society (ACS) Education Collection. Only the titles in this collection will be available for access at APSU. Click ACS eBook Title List to see a complete list of available titles.
You may access the titles in this collection by searching for a specific title in the Austin Library Catalog or by searching the ACS eBook portal at the link above (please note that APSU does not have access to all the eBook titles in the Symposium Series-only the specific titles in the Education collection). View the ACS eBook Title List to see a complete list of available titles for APSU.
With feedback from subscribers and the ACS Committee on Chemical Education, a special collection of 100 titles was selected that will help science educators plan their curriculum, setup experiments, construct engaging demonstrations, evaluate performance, and ensure their efforts serve diverse genders, abilities/disabilities, and cultures.
A new, online version of the ACS Style Guide for reference formatting that also addresses best practices for scholarly communication in the science, technology, and math disciplines
The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication is always up-to-date: digital-first, and updated and expanded biannually.
Given the rapidly changing publishing landscape, the new version of the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication will be a digital-first resource, with regular and timely updates. New topics will be added to (1) expand scientific communication beyond the scientific journal, including patents, communicating science to the public, and communicating science to decision-makers; (2) expand data conventions beyond chemistry; and (3) broaden our reach beyond ethics in scientific publications to ethics in scientific research.
Now in a digital-first format, the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides students, researchers, educators, and librarians with the instruction and advice they need to master the art of scholarly communication. It contains:
*New content to help authors navigate modern challenges in publishing
*A library of real-world examples to help users create engaging tables, charts, and references
*A multidisciplinary author and editor team to ensure the needs of the student, the library, the education, the investigator, and even the corporate reader are supported
*Always up-to-date with digital format
*Video best practices for authoring scholarly communication, brought to life through annotated published examples
With over 1.3 million digital downloads of the current edition, the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication is recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to best practices for scientists across the STM disciplines.
*covers biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pre-clinical and experimental medicine, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary science
*indexes over 4,200 journals from 100 countries and includes over 11.3 million records
*covers items published from 1926-present
Database of scholarly journals with publication information, submission experience data, and peer review indicators. Also included is Predatory Reports, the only searchable database of predatory journals with detailed summaries of deceptive behaviors.
Cabells Journalytics, our searchable database of information and insightful metrics for verified, reputable journals, covers 18 academic disciplines and provides intelligence on more than 11,000 international scholarly publications.
Cabells Predatory Reports, the only searchable database of predatory journals with detailed summaries of deceptive behaviors, currently lists more than 13,000 deceitful publications. Through continued partnerships with major academic publishers, journal editors, scholarly societies, accreditation agencies, and other independent databases,
Cabells provides accurate, up-to-date information about academic journals to more than 750 universities worldwide.
Index to journal abbreviations and titles used in chemistry and related sciences
The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource for locating the bibliographic details for journals. Search by title, abbreviation, CODEN, ISBN, or ISSN.
The CASSI database contains a listing of publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications. The database will be updated quarterly and was last updated in October 2018.
Beyond CASSI is a supplement to the CASSI Search Tool to help decipher shortened journal title abbreviations from early chemical literature and other historical references that may not be listed in the CASSI Search Tool.
Health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis
The database aggregates open content from ProQuest with content made freely availableby members of the International Association of STM Publishers. Notable publishers contributing to the Coronavirus Research Database include Public Library of Science, BioMed Central, MDPI AG, Springer Nature Publisher Group, Taylor & Francis and The BMJ. Preprint servers include arXiv.org and BioRxiv.
Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses in full-text from universities in 88 countries
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
Subject coverage
• Business and Economics
• Medical Sciences
• Science
• Technology
• Agriculture
• Social Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
World's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information
PubChem allows researchers to search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more. The system is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a component of the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the United States National Institutes of Health.
PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules. Examples include chemical compounds including drugs, nucleotides including siRNAs and miRNAs, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides and chemically-modified macromolecules.
Get background information on your topic.
Use this database for quick definitions and overviews of different terms. It is a cross between an encyclopedia and a dictionary. You will see snippets from related ScienceDirect books (but APSU does not own access to the full-text chapters for most of these titles).
These pages provide concept definitions and subject overviews for researchers who want to expand their knowledge about scholarly and technical terms.
Each synopsis provides a series of short, authoritative, excerpts from highly relevant book chapters written by subject matter experts in the field.
These topic summaries are derived from Elsevier encyclopedias, reference works and books.
Contains a wide variety of content from journal articles to information on chemical structures, properties, and reactions
SciFinder-n is the new interface for the most comprehensive index to the chemical literature and related sciences, including chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, & nanotechnology. Search 52 million article, patent, and conference references, the CAS Registry of 161 million chemical substances (many include property data) & CASREACT database of 126 million chemical reactions and preparations. Search by topic, reaction, or chemical substance (Registry number, structure, substructure).
What's in Scifinder?
Chemical Substances (CAS REGISTRY)
References (CAplus)
Reactions (CASREACT)
Chemical Suppliers (CHEMCATS)
Regulated Chemicals (CHEMLIST)
Markush (MARPAT; Substances in patents)
*use the Structure Drawing Editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions
*Created by CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society)
*Serves as an electronic version of Chemical Abstracts providing references from more than 9500 journals
*Contain patents from over 50 patent-issuing organizations
*Contains the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information
Peer-reviewed journals from science related fields, philosophy, and business
The Springer eJournal collection includes around 2000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, engineering, medicine, business, philosophy, and the social sciences.
Collection of Electronic Books on various subjects
*The ABC-CLIO eBook Collection is comprised of all the electronic titles from the publisher ABC-CLIO for which Austin Peay State University has purchased access.
*The "Search" option in the upper-left enables you to search through the text in all the listed volumes.
*You can also can click on any individual title to browse the contents or conduct a search.
Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 66,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, history, business, counseling, dance, ethnic studies, gay and lesbian studies, film, opera, religion, theatre, and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Publishers include A&E, Bullfrog Films, HISTORY®, Sony Pictures Classics, BroadwayHD™, 60 Minutes, PBS, BBC, Milestone Films and many more.
*Complete details for Academic Video Online: Premium including a full bibliography can be found at www.alexanderstreet.com/avon . A guide is available at http://proquest.libguides.com/AVON
High School and college level research on all topics with multimedia
Gale In Context: College is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
In-depth reports on current issues and news topics
CQ Researcheris an award winning publication that’s been around for more than 90 years. It provides in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research
*contains articles reviewing the history, statistics, and pro/con viewpoints of current-interest topics
*covers a wide variety of topics and the Issue Tracker feature allows you to track the progress of an issue through several decades
Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses in full-text from universities in 88 countries
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
Subject coverage
• Business and Economics
• Medical Sciences
• Science
• Technology
• Agriculture
• Social Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
Electronic Book Collection containing over 134,000 titles as of October 2016. All titles can be viewed online and most downloaded to PC, iOS, or Android.
*Formerly known as ebrary, eBook Central (Academic Complete) is a collection of around 134,000 electronic books provided by Felix G. Woodward Library. The content for this collection covers a wide variety of subject areas and all the titles within this collection can be searched simultaneously. Access is provided to these titles through the link above as well as through the Austin Library Catalog.
Most eBook Central titles include unlimited access and can be downloaded by chapter in PDF format or in full through Adobe Digital Editions or apps for iOS and Android. See http://libguides.apsu.edu/ebrary for more info.
Around 300 titles may have limited access and only allow 1 user to open the the book at a time (download option not available). Follow the guidelines at the bottom of this text for these titles*.
*There is no time limit for reading a limited ebrary book. However, if another user wants to use the book and places it in their queue, it will be passed on to the next user in the queue after 15 minutes of inactivity. (Being active means turning pages, doing full-text searches, making notes, etc).
*This growing subscription package (EBSCO Academic collection) contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. More than 161,000 titles are included in this package, and additional titles are added to the package each month. Also included in this collection are thousands of previously purchased NetLibrary eBooks from the SoliNet shared collections. NetLibrary was purchased by EBSCO in 2010.
*Books in the Academic Collection have unlimited access and many can be downloaded for offline viewing. See http://libguides.apsu.edu/ebsco_ebooks
Records for over 350,000 doctoral theses from UK institutions (many full text)
A cooperative project of the British Library, higher education institutions in Britain, and the Center for Research Libraries, EThOS serves as a gateway to theses written in the UK. The database contains more than 350,000 records, some dating back to the 17th century, and a growing number of theses have been digitized for immediate delivery via the web.
*Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of electronic reference content in a database format.
*The sources that Gale Virtual Reference Library offers in eBook format include multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources.
*A list of titles accessible to APSU is available within the resource
One-stop source for magazine and journal articles covering general interest topics along with reference, newspaper, and audio content. With millions of articles available, Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
*General OneFile lists citations and summaries of most articles and entire text of many articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. All subjects are covered.
*Periodicals included are:
social science journals
humanities journals
science and technology journals
national news periodicals
general interest magazines
The New York Times
Find journal articles, books, and theses on any subject
Use this link to access Google Scholar and links to "Search for Full Text at APSU Library" will be available in the search results.
Features of Google Scholar:
*Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place
*Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications
*Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
*Keep up with recent developments in any area of research
*Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile
Multiple Subjects including history, literature, biology, political science, communication, business, and African-American studies
*Contains the full text of articles from scholarly journals
*Articles published from early 1900s to 2 or 3 years ago.
Austin Peay State University currently participates in the following JSTOR Collection(s):
Biological Sciences Collection
Life Sciences Collection
Arts & Sciences I Collection
Arts & Sciences II Collection
Arts & Sciences III Collection
Arts & Sciences IV Collection
Arts & Sciences V Collection
Arts & Sciences VI Collection
Arts & Sciences VII Collection
Arts & Sciences VIII Collection
Arts & Sciences IX Collection
Arts & Sciences X Collection
Arts & Sciences XI Collection
Arts & Sciences XII Collection
Arts & Sciences XIII Collection
Arts & Sciences XIV Collection
Arts & Sciences XV Collection
Austin Peay State University also subscribes to the following individual journal(s):
19th-Century Music
The American Biology Teacher
The American Mathematical Monthly
The College Mathematics Journal
Ethnomusicology
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Mathematics Magazine
The Mathematics Teacher
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Social Problems
Teaching Children Mathematics
*Provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources
*Retrospective coverage as far back as 1982, full-text since 1994
*Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
*Website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. It lists over 30,000 free books on the Web.
*OATD is an index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.
*The full text of all papers lives on the original hosting site, usually the repository of the university that granted the degree.
*Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.
*Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art, or liberal arts courses.
*Gale InfoTrac PowerPack collection that provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course.
*The date range for this database is 1980 to present.
Infotrac Journals on Current events,
Sports, Science and Health.
Chosen by public library search results, titles are
compiled by what users are searching for
most. Six hundred of the more than 1,000 titles
are recommended in Bowker’s Magazines for
Libraries.
*Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Research designed for Junior High and middle school students in grades 6-8
Gale’s Research In Context is a cross-disciplinary resource targeted to Middle Schoolers and supportive to the other ends of the K-12 spectrum spanning literature, science, social studies, and U.S. and world history. Students in grades 6 to 8 will benefit from an interface that delivers the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users combined with the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.
Electronic access to over 900 peer-reviewed, full-text journals on a variety of topics, with content dating back to 1999.
*High-quality, interdisciplinary content – almost two thirds of the content in the SAGE Premier package is ranked in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)
*15 journals received their first Impact Factor with the 2011 report and 7 journals increased their Impact Factors.
*SAGE is market leader (by number of ranked titles) in 6 key disciplines including Criminology & Penology; Education, Special; Social Issues; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology and Urban Studies.
Peer-reviewed journals from science related fields, philosophy, and business
The Springer eJournal collection includes around 2000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, engineering, medicine, business, philosophy, and the social sciences.
*WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries near your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many kinds of digital content.
*This edition of WorldCat, provided through OCLC FirstSearch, enables users to search multiple terms in specific fields (title, author, subject, etc.) and limit by characteristics such as format, date, or audience level.
A free version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/
Search multiple library databases, the APSU library catalog, and the WorldCat.org index for journal articles, books, ebooks, government documents, manuscripts, maps, audiovisual materials, and music scores.
WorldCat Discovery is a search system that helps researchers find resources available at APSU Library and in libraries worldwide through a single search. It offers search results similar to what can be found in Google Scholar, but it has more advanced searching features and customized options for APSU library holdings. Features of the service include:
*Single entry point for searching many library databases at once, including the APSU Library catalog (Austin)
*Searches also include results from the WorldCat central index of over 3 billion journal articles and 40 million eBooks (along with many other types of content).
*Results can be limited to only contain materials with print and electronic full-text available from APSU library
*Ability to limit searches by date, source type, subject, and content provider
*Option to limit search results for peer reviewed articles
*The WorldCat provider (OCLC) works with more than 370 publishers and content partners from around the world, including ProQuest, EBSCO, Gale, and Elsevier.
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SciFinder is the most comprehensive source for searching chemical literature including Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) and Medline references. Its powerful search engine enables searching by research topic, author, company, substance name, reaction, chemical structure, and more.
