Library

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Key Resources

Reference Materials :

• Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
• CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [print]
• Hawley's condensed chemical dictionary [print]
• IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
• McGrawHill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology [print]
• MSDS Search : Materials Safety Data Sheets
• NIST Chemistry Web Book
• ThermoDex: Index of Selected Thermodynamic and Physical Property Resources

Books:

• Use the Library catalogue to search for books on a specific topic. For help with using the Library catalogue, use the Library Skills Online tutorials.

Journals:

The library subscribes to many journals in print and in electronic format. Search the Library catalogue by the title of individual journals for details. Use the databases to find individual articles in journals.

Some useful journal collections for chemistry are:

• ACS Journals
  Full text of 28 American Chemical Society journals
• Free full text journals in chemistry
• Highwire Press
  Online host for 60 scholarly societies and publishers
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• ScienceDirect
  Full text access to titles to which La Trobe has a print subscription
• Wiley Interscience
  Full text access to all Wiley journals, over 300 titles

Associations and Organizations :

• American Chemical Society
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• RACI : Royal Australian Chemical Institute
• Royal Society of Chemistry

Conferences :

• All Conferences
• Chemistry-Conferences.com
• Chemsoc Conferences and Events

Gateways :

• Chemdex
• ChemFinder
• ChemIndustry.com
• Links for Chemists (WWW Virtual Library)
• SCIRUS

Technical Reports & Preprints:

• Chemistry preprint server
• DOE Information Bridge
• GrayLIT network
• OAIster
  E-print search engine; searches more than 490 separate repositories at once
• PubChem
• Virtual Technical Reports Centre