Chemistry

This is UCLan's Chemistry library page.

For more help and guidance please contact your Faculty Librarian: Bob Frost

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Books

Use the Library Search to search for the exact location and availability of books in the library.

If you are unable to locate an item we should be able to obtain this for you via either the reservation or Inter-library Loan process. 

Forensic eBooks which may be useful for Archaeology or Anthropology subjects:

Multi-Subject eBook Collections

Journals and Articles

Electronic subscription: use the Journal Finder link to search by journal title then follow the blue resource link, taking you to the full-text articles. 

If the Library does not hold a particular journal (in print or electronic format) you can request a copy of the article you require from the Inter-library Loans service.

Search for Chemistry journals/articles here:

Search for multi-disciplinary journals/articles here:

  • ScienceDirect - over 2000 scientific, technical and medical related titles.
  • Academic Search Complete -   A full-text database of over 6000 journals in most subject areas.
  • SpringerLink - 1200 science, technology and medicine peer-reviewed journals. Full-text access is available from 1997-present.
  • Nature online archive - over 6600 digitised issues of Nature from the very first issue, on 4th November 1869, through to 1996.
  • JSTOR - historical archive is a full text collection of journals. We subscribe to the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, and Ecology & Botany collections.
  • Wiley Online Library – full-text access to 757 journal titles in the subject areas of science, technology and medicine.
  • Taylor & Francis Collection - over 1750 journal titles, including Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, Physics and Chemistry Liquids, Journal of Coordination Chemistry.
  • Biomedical/Life Science Collection of Annual Reviews- provides review research literature written by leading scholars who are dedicated to helping scientists and researchers navigate the vast amount of research and data that is available to them.

If you find a resource which the Library doesn't subscribe to you can request a copy of the article via the Inter Library Loan service.

Multi-Disciplinary Abstract and Indexing databases:

  • Web of Knowledge - is summary and reference with some full text and covers most subject areas - over 8,000 journals
  • Scopus - one of the largest abstracting and indexing databases of research literature and quality web sources. Covers scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature including, arts and humanities - over 14,000 titles 

Additional Resources

  • ChemSpider - a structure searchable database that includes patent information, literature references, property data and spectra
  • Images - the e-images page has links to image archives and search engines.
  • Index to Theses - is an index with abstracts of theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • Nexis - is full text and has articles from many sources including local, regional and national newspapers 
  • Zetoc  - provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of current journals and conference proceedings

All our electronic databases are listed on the E-databases A-Z

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Bob Frost

Faculty Librarian for Science and Technology

rsfrost@uclan.ac.uk
01772 892261

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