Experimental Chemistry II, CH 461 & 461H
Chemistry, Oregon State University
On Line Sources for Searching Scientific Literature, updated 11/11/2008

1. Scirus science based search engine: http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
    
2. Journal of Chemical Education is located at:  http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/
    
3. OSU Oasis and Orbis on-line catalogs
    
4. OSU Research guide for Chemistry  Includes directions for using SciFinder Scholar.  This is the Chemical Abstracts electronic service.  SciFinder is installed on the PC's in GBAD 311.  You will want to search a "research topic" area for the most thorough search of ACS journals.  See additional notes
    
5. Search ISI Web of Science for many areas.  For example, try searching "selenium and ground and water"  Access this search engine through the Valley Library web page. 
    
6. A  Yale University web page  that makes searching the web for common physical properties of chemicals easy. 
    
7. OSU Research Gateway and a list of all the full text electronic journals that OSU faculty staff and students can access.

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