SubjectsPlus: Biological Chemistry
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Books
Information Strategy 
A basic guide for tracking down relevant, high-quality information needed for papers, lab reports, discussions, and other purposes.
Define...
... a topic by gathering background/overview information; help formulate your question.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Glossaries, etc.
AccessScience 
Off-campus access
The online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and Yearbooks and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and more.
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Call Number: TP9 .K54 2004 v1 to v10
Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Off-campus access
Provides full text of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations from 175+ Oxford reference titles, many of which are in-depth, scholarly entries.
Identify
... specific sources of information about the defined topic--to answer your question
Databases
Academic Search Premier Off-campus access
1-popular/primary
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (Annual)
Call Number: Burling 1st Floor, Reference Area--ask at the circulation desk for help locating.
An index of the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States, reflecting the history of 20th century America.
ACS Journals Search Off-campus access
2-primary The full text of articles from 30+ journals published by the American Chemical Society is available from the very first issues of the journals to the present.
Entrez: the Life Sciences Search Engine
3-primary Allows many NCBI databases to be searched simultaneously--including PubMed/MEDLINE.
MEDLINE Off-campus access
1953-current; FirstSearch interface. One of the premier sources for bibliographic coverage of medicine, medical research, health care, molecular biology, physiological psychology, and more.
NCBI PubMed (MEDLINE)
The NCBI interface to MEDLINE.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Off-campus access
A multidisciplinary database providing coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from nearly 6,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
Grinnell College Libraries
Books, media, Web sites, databases, art work, and more
Chemical Abstracts
4-primary Access via SciFinder Scholar (look for the SciFinder Scholar icon on the desktop of computers running Windows in the Kistle Science Library, the Chemistry Discussion Room, and other locations. SciFinder Scholar searches Chemical Abstracts, CASREACT, REGISTRY, and MEDLINE; SciFinder Scholar is available 24 hours per day)
BIOSIS Previews
Contact the Science Librarian for use of this database.
WebCSD Off-campus access
The world repository of small molecule crystal structures; this database records the bibliographic, chemical, and crystallographic information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds.
WorldCat Off-campus access
Before 1000 B.C. to the present. The OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Contains millions of records.
Science Citation Index
5-primary Contact Kevin Engel for access to the Science Citation Index. A unique database that allows you to discover who has cited (referred to) a particular article or book since it was originally published.
Reference Sources
Where to find Registry Numbers and physical property data for chemical substances?
Where to find synthesis/preparation information for chemical substances?
Where to find spectra data for chemical substances?
AP images (Associated Press) Off-campus access
Provides 24/7 access to over 4.9 million primary source photos from 1825 to the present. Additionally, provides audio, video, graphics and interactives. Constantly updated, AP Images is an important resource for virtually every discipline. This database may be used for educational purposes only. Images may not be posted on the Web or otherwise made available electronically to anyone outside the Grinnell College community. These images may not be republished or distributed in newspapers, newsletters, magazines, brochures, catalogs, yearbooks, calendars, posters, or similar materials.
Other Sources
ChemIDplus
National Library of Medicine; an online chemical identification resource; an excellent tool for obtaining comprehensive and reliable ... information about chemical substances from over 70 chemical databases.
MSDS Index
Vermont Safety Information Resources, Inc.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
For easy-to-understand, authoritative information about human diseases and disorders.
Sequence Retrieval System
For searching across multiple databases in Biochemistry including SWISS PROT and BLAST; allows searching of proteins by molecular weight and other characteristics.
BLAST
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool--a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether the query is protein or DNA--from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/blast_overview.html)
SWISS PROT
Full-text search option; for finding the molecular weight of and much other data about proteins.
TOXNET
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas; National Library of Medicine.
Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.
United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
(A guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications)
Ground Water & Drinking Water
United States Environmental Protection Agency
List of Drinking Water Contaminants & MCLs
Ground Water & Drinking Water Topics
Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater
Call Number: Science Library QD142 .A5
USGS Water Resources Data of the United States
Locate
... the publications identified above at Grinnell or elsewhere--get your information
Grinnell College Libraries
Books, media, Web sites, databases, art work, and more
Journal Finder
Journals, magazines, and newspapers available through the Grinnell College Libraries.
Other Library Catalogs
Iowa State University Library Catalog
University of Iowa Libraries Catalog
Evaluate
...the validity, objectivity, and usefulness of the information
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