Chemical Information Resources

available to chemists at Oxford University

Chemistry & related Electronic Journals

Electronic Journal News:

• Journal of Chemical Education - access restored
• Journal Alerting Services - for Tables of Contents and other alerting services
• Open Access Publishing - EPSRC requires all published EPSRC-funded research articles submitted for publication from September 2011 to be made available on an Open Access basis
• Oxford University e-Journals - the university's A-Z list of e-journals in all subjects
• List of proposals for new electronic journal subscriptions

Chemistry & related Databases

Database News:

• Essential Science Indicators - New subscription: Essential Science Indicators is a database of performance statistics and trends in science, providing citation rankings for scientists, institutions, countries, journals and papers.
• 2010 Journal Citation Reports now available
• SciFinder: limit on number of simultaneous users allowed removed
  

Quick Links:

• Chemical Abstracts: about SciFinder - Register for web version (WebLearn page) - Login to SciFinder web
• Web of Knowledge - about Web of Knowledge - direct link to search service
  
• Reaxys provides web access to Beilstein and Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Database
• Chemical Database Service
• You can now use your Oxford Single Sign On (SSO) account to login to the CDS databases
• ChemSpider - free structure/property database from RSC, includes ChemSpider SyntheticPages
• Off-site access to Oxford University's subscription Databases and Electronic Journals
• Passwords for accessing various chemical databases
• Selected Internet Resources
• EndNote: site licence agreement and how to import references into EndNote from various databases
• Scopus

Library News

Bodleian Libraries (previously known as Oxford University Library Services/OULS)

• SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Online - new version now live. Use SOLO to search Oxford University's online library catalogue (previously known as OLIS)
• Oxford Research Archive (ORA)
• 21st century plans for Bodleian Library
• Book Storage Facility near Swindon
• The Electronic Resources team have set up the Oxford eResources blog as an additional way of communicating with users; items will be posted about new content in electronic resources, changes to the OU eJournals and OxLIP+ systems as well as other items of interest for anyone using the internet. Eg.:
  • Copyright in electronic journals; a quick guide to what you may and may not copy
  • Info on setting Google Scholar to display full text links for Oxford subscriptions
  • Making the most of your Google search: tips on using Google’s Advanced Search
  • RSS feeds

Radcliffe Science Library

• New Chemistry Books at RSL - updated weekly; also new Physics books
• Opening hours
• Proposals for new electronic subscriptions; see full list of current proposals
• Science and Medicine Dispatch - RSL's new newsletter
• Photocopying, Printing and Scanning (PCAS) - service
• Facebook and Twitter pages
• e-book readers available for loan
• RSL Reading Room Layout Plans
• Making the Most of the RSL - introductory and refresher sessions on how best to use RSL resources
• WISER - Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Research
• RSL Research Skills Training Programme
• 350th anniversary of the Royal Society - series of small exhibitions from RSL collections
• Interlibrary loan/Document Supply service can provide copies of single articles from journals not held within Oxford. Secure Electronic Delivery is now the preferred option. Download request form.
• RSL's Sciences portal

Organic Chemistry Library Stock and Status (July 2007)

Updated 2/5/2012. If you have any comments please contact: cheminfo@chem.ox.ac.uk