GREEN CHEMISTRY

INFORMATION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

The University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries has a number of resources available to assist you with your graduate research. 

Your most important resource will be:

• SciFinder Scholar: Access to the complete Chemical Abstracts database from 1907-, covering over 9600 chemical journals, plus patents, dissertations and books. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for early Sunday morning. SciFinder Scholar is already set up in the Chemistry research labs on campus as well as being available on any Library PC via installed software. It is also available from your home PC via a PPP (dialup) account. It cannot be used with our Proxyserver. Download instructions for the necessary software here.  Be sure and download SciFinder Scholar2006.  For a tutorial, click here.

Other helpful sources include:

• ScienceDirect This service offers FULL CONTENT of 900 Elsevier Press journals, from 1995-   Offers Alert service--register once and then login with your own individual account. You many also set up a "Favorite Journals" list in the My Profile area.
• American Chemical Society Journals FULL CONTENT for all 28 titles from the ACS, with a complete backfile to volume 1, number 1 of each title.  Offers Alert Service.  
• Compendex This service covers the engineering field, with practical applications.  Offers citations and abstracts, with links to full-text.
• Annual Reviews FULL CONTENT to all of these titles, 1996- which contain excellent review articles.
• Ingenta.com Offers free alerts service, both subject and table of contents, covering 25,000 titles.
• Wiley-Interscience journals  Offers access to 350 Wiley journals from 1997-  Offers free alert service.
• Knovel   Offers access and searching for nearly 700 handbooks in all engineering and science fields.  You may search for specific properties or chemicals and also search for chapters or sections of text within the handbooks.  Also has interactive graphing capabilities for properties of many chemicals.

Patent information

• US Patent Office All US patents since 1790!  Full text provided, which includes citations, references, abstract and the text of the patent. References to other patents are linked.  Images for all patents available, in TIFF format which must be printed one page at a time.
• Asitri: This site will reformat and print any US Patent as a PDF file.  You only need the patent number.
• Free Patents Online: Free website, offering PDF versions of all patents from number 4000000-.
• European Patent Office. Patent applications in original language from EP and WO may be found here. JP applications with English title and abstract are available. Images from PCT, EP and JP are available.  Some PDF's available.
• World  Intellectual Property Organization, PCT  WO patents with citations, abstracts and references supplied. WO applications since 1997- also included.

The computer catalog should be checked for books on your subject.  If we do not own the book you want, check the Virtual Catalog, which provides access to collections from many schools in this area.  If you find the book you want, you can order it and it will be sent to the Library of your choice.  You may have it for 30 days--this service is quite rapid, as it is all automated.  If you cannot find the book you want in the Virtual Catalog, check our WorldCat.  This database is a comprehensive listing of all books and journals located anywhere in the world.  It covers approximately 45 MILLION items. If you locate your item there, and it is available in any US library, you may fill out an Interlibrary Loan request and we will do our best to supply the book.

If you have a citation to a journal article, first check the UML E-journal list to see if it is available in any of our databases.  We have access to over 26,000 electronic journals.  Most e-collections begin in the mid-90's but a few major ones go back much further.  If the journal is in the UML e-journal list, but the year you want is not covered, or it is not listed at all, check our computer catalog as we have many older journals in our collection.  If we do not own the journal in any format, you may request an Interlibrary Loan.  Fill out the form and submit it.  If you have another request, after submission, use the BACK button on your browser, and you will not have to fill in your identifying information again.  Almost all journal articles are delivered electronically; we notify you of arrival via automated e-mail.  Interlibrary Loan takes 2-3 weeks, so plan ahead.

 UML's Dissertations Database will give you a list of all UML theses and dissertations in chemistry. ProQuest's Dissertations Abstracts will allow you to search all dissertations since 1870. For recent dissertations, you may access the first 24 pages of any dissertation.  Copies of all UML theses 1998- are free on ProQuest's site.

For general information on library services for all graduate students, check here.

Page created and maintained by Marion Muskiewicz, Science Librarian, UMASS Lowell
9/22/05