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Contains resources to support research in chemistry, chemical engineering, business and regulatory resources, and tools for managing information.
ChemBioDraw
Need to draw chemical structures? Or biological pathways?
Install ChemBioDraw!
ACS Style Guide
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ACS Style GuideA good resource how to communicate scientific information. Also includes examples how to cite in ACS style.
Finding articles & research papers
Try these first:
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SciFinderhttp://libraries.mit.edu/get/scifinder (use/bookm ark this URL)
Comprehensive chemistry resource
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ScopusGeneral science, technology, medicine
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Web of ScienceGeneral science
Other places to look:
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INSPECPhysics, including physical chemistry
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PubMedMedicine, healthcare, life sciences
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ReaxysChemistry, including reactions & properties
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Science of SynthesisChemical synthesis
Finding chemical & materials properties: handbooks & databases
Selected Chemistry Journals
For all online journals go to Vera
Check out Journal Citations Reports for ISI Impact factors, rankings, and half-lives for journals
Tools and support: Citation Management, Off campus access, Scholarly Publishing
| Manage your Information - Contains links to research guides for citation management and writing tools, managing personal digital content, and managing data. | Endnote - Widely used application designed to help you to organize citations and create a bibliography. MIT does not offer a site license for EndNote. There is a free web version for MIT users through Web of Science. |
| Mendeley - Free resource to manage citations and PDFs using a desktop client that syncs with web-based account that supports small group collaboration. The Libraries support Mendeley Institutional Edition which gives MIT users additional web server storage and other features. | Zotero - A free, open-source program that works with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. For many databases and websites, it can tell when a list of books or articles is displayed, so citation information can be saved with just a few clicks: |
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LibX 2.0 for MITLibX is a browser add-on you can download for Firefox and Google Chrome. LibX will give you easier access to MIT resources from anywhere
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Connect from on and off-campusConnect to licensed resources from on and off campus.
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OverleafAccess Overleaf Pro+ accounts through MIT Libraries.
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Scholarly PublishingResources to support questions about MIT's Open Access policy, copyright issues, publisher policies, and compliance with federal OA mandates.
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