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How to Find Chemistry Books & Other Materials

Library Search, WorldCat & Other catalogs

•	Call numbers and locations of books and journals
•		Chemistry call numbers begin with QD.
•		QD books are located in the Science Library, 4th floor Bar.
•		Bound journals are shelved by call number in the Science Library Drum
•		QD1-272 are on the 4th Floor
•		QD273-999 are on the 5th Floor
•		Current journal issues are shelved by title in the Current Periodicals Room on the 2nd floor of the Science Library

Dissertations and Theses Fulltext *
(Dissertations in arts, humanities, social sciences and science)
Search for information and suppliers
Where to get started, compound names, physical properties, spectra, and suppliers

Electronic Books

ACS Style Guide *
The ACS Style Guide is an established and definitive source within and beyond the chemistry community, educating researchers on how to effectively communicate scientific information.

Electronic book holdings for UC Irvine libraries are searchable in Library Search.

Springer E-Book *
The UC Libraries have purchased nearly every Springer ebook published in English and German from 2005 to 2009.
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The nearly 20,000 books fall into the following broad subject areas: architecture and design; behavioral science; biomedical and life sciences; business and economics; chemistry & materials science; computer science; earth & environmental sciences; engineering; humanities, social sciences and law; mathematics & statistics; medicine; physics & astronomy; professional and applied computing and technology.
Knovel *
Engineering and Technical handbooks
Royal Society of Chemistry E-Books *
Access to all RSC monographs 1986 to current year.
CRCNetBase *
Full-text search across science-technology-engineering databases of texts from CRC Press.
Wiley Online Library Ebook Collection (2011 frontlist only) *
(New titles cataloged monthly) Wiley Online Library Ebook Collection which includes 950 books with a 2011 publication date. The collection will serve a wide range of research needs in the life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Viewing e-books on an iPad
This video demonstrates how various types of e-books (from an academic library) display on an iPad via a browser (Safari). The books are all from subscription databases. By Valerie Forrestal and Julie Arnett, Stevens Institute of Technology, June 2010. (12:07)

CRCNetBase Electronic Books

CRCNetBase *

The top websites and resources for chemistry and chemical information.
* UC Irvine access only

ENGnetBASE *
Consists of a compilation of essential engineering information, including data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations, and charts. It covers the disciplines of general engineering, structural engineering, mobile communications, remediation engineering, optomechanical engineering, measurement, instrumentation and sensors, communications, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, technology management, digital signal processing, environmental engineering, and civil engineering.
ENVIROnetBASE *
This multi-disciplinary collection of award-winning resources provides background information that allows environmentalists and engineers access to each other's fields as well as the advances research and analysis both require. It also includes new developments in GIS.
CHEMnetBASE *
Comprising Chapman & Hall/CRC's premier chemistry references, this comprehensive and highly interactive resource allows you to search and extract essential data and tables. Physical property data from Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD) and The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
MATHnetBASE *
From the classical to the cutting-edge, from theory to applications, this online library of premier mathematics resources from Chapman & Hall/CRC has the answers.
FOODnetBASE *
This library premiers references from every aspect of the food industry, including food safety, regulations, quality assurance, packaging, biotechnology, and product development.
STATSnetBASE *
An unparalleled repository of world-class references, this online library meets the needs of statisticians and researchers employing statistical science across a wide range of disciplines. From Frequentist to Bayesian, biostatistics to finance, this fully searchable collection is the perfect tool for any size analysis on all sorts of data.
ASTDR *
ATSDR'S Toxicological Profiles (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - U.S. Public Health Service) translates over 40,000 pages of data into a comprehensive, current, easy-to-use format on the mitigation of health effects, data gaps, and all available health data.
INFORMATIONSCIENCEnetBASE *
Established experts meet the increasing challenges of information security, with a wealth of material exploring system analysis and server set-up, as well as cryptography, cyber-crime, and other modern risks.
Neuropsychology *
Groundbreaking studies, classic texts, and illustrative atlases make this site a premier neuroscience reference. It offers the latest on Parkinson's and Alzheimer's as well as circadian studies, cytokines research, and computational neuroscience.

Help

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