Chemistry
Library Subscription Services
The following sources may be accessed through computers on campus or by current PVCC faculty, staff and students from off campus.
Journal Articles and Books
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics contains a wealth of data used by chemists, physicists and engineers.
EBSCO provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books.
Chemistry Journals 30 full-text journals of the American Chemical Society.
CSA Illumina Cambridge Scientific Abstracts provides access to 35 scientific databases.
High Wire Press has 11 scientific journals with full text available online. In addition, High Wire Press has free links to many other full-text journals. Search by category.
Access Science has more than 7,000 articles covering a wide range of science topics, as well as a science dictionary and biographies of scientists. Search by keyword or topic.
Today's Science draws on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad to present the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.
Journal of Chemical Education is useful for identifying articles. The full text is only available from computers on campus.
Annual Reviews provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in science and social science through critical authoritative reviews. Search by broad subjects (called "suites") or by more narrow series, including microbiology, public health, psychology, and sociology.
Local Web Sites of Interest
UVA Science and Engineering Library
UVA Department of Chemistry
Internet Resources
Chemistry.org is the Web site of the American Chemical Society.
Chemical Abstracts Service
ChemIDplus Search is a dictionary of chemicals.
Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
Periodic Table
Another Periodic Table with graphics
