Chem 732 - Advances in Macromolecular Structure and Function
ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized. Find out more
Funding Resources
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UNC Funding Information PortalThe Funding Information Portal is a collection of databases and other resources selected to help UNC graduate students, faculty, and staff identify and apply for funding opportunities.
Resources on Grant Writing
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Complete Book of Grant Writing by ISBN: 9781402267314Publication Date: 2012-08-01This book is a must-have reference if you're seeking funding through grants-government grants, foundation grants, specialty grants, and more. -
Guide to Effective Grant Writing by ISBN: 9781461415817Publication Date: 2012-06-12This book covers all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this volume offers clear advice backed up with excellent examples. -
Grant Writing for Dummies by ISBN: 9781118856505Publication Date: 2014-03-05Your comprehensive guide to finding and winning grant monies
Writing and Citing
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ACS Guide to Scholarly CommunicationThis online style guide resource provides students, researchers, educators and librarians with the instruction and advice they need to master the art of scholarly communication (publications, presentations, data conventions and communicating with the public).
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Write Like a Chemist by ISBN: 9780195367423Write Like a Chemist is a guide to chemistry-specific writing. It offers a structured approach to writing that targets four important chemistry genres: the journal article, conference abstract, scientific poster, and research proposal.
Outlines:
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How to write an outline (video)
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Why and how to create an outline (Purdue OWL)
Abstracts:
- UNC Writing Center - Abstracts - Excellent guide to composing abstracts. Also available as a PDF
Researching in the Sciences (videos)
Author's Guide for submitting an article to the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (online)
Find Articles
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SciFinder
- Information from the Chemical Abstracts Service databases
- Tool for chemists, contains information on chemical reactions, substances and references
- Information on organic and inorganic substances and sequences
- Broad range of scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science
Note: Users must first register with their UNC email accounts before accessing this resource. Register: http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=22CACA07X86F35055X223F8A761E25479081
Instructions on combining reference sets in SciFinder
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PubMedDatabase of biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine covering journal articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, biology and public health from 1950 to the present; multiple mobile apps available, provides access to MEDLINE, etc. Includes links to full text of UNC-CH's electronic journal subscriptions.
Guide to MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
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ScopusA large citation and abstracting database providing comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed journal and conference literature, with links to full-text where available through the library; includes scientific, technical, medical, social science and arts and humanities disciplines and indexes over 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including over 340 book series. Like Web of Science, Scopus allows researchers to perform citation searches to see how many times a work has been cited, by whom, and to rank searches by times cited, for the period 1996 -present, as well as its curated index of over 375 scientific web pages and over 24 million patents.
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Web of Science (ISI)Opens to search the Core Collection which includes Science; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Conference Proceedings; Book; and Emerging Sources Citation Indexes; Current Chemical Reactions; Index Chemicus. Provides access to BIOSIS, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI Korean Citations Index, Russian Citation Index, SciELO, and Zoological Record. An All Databases search option is available.
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Google ScholarEnables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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BIOSIS Citation Index
- Citation and abstract database with access to many of the articles through the library
- Covers the area of life sciences research from 1926 to present
- Includes journals, books, reports, meetings, and patents
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F1000PrimeGet recommendation and reviews of the most interesting new articles in biology and medicine from over 5000 leading faculty and researchers around the world. Create an id to customize your recommendations to your interests. Mobile app available.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalIndexes US dissertations from 1861 with full text available from 1997; masters theses covered selectively including some full text. Citations for dissertations from 1980 include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 have 150-word abstracts. Selectively covers dissertations from Great Britain and other European universities for recent years.
In addition to this database, the full text of the majority of UNC theses and dissertations from 2006, and all beginning in 2008, are freely available electronically from the UNC Library: Dissertations | Theses -
Derwent Innovations IndexInternational database covering patents from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. Links to cited and citing patents, citing articles, and full patent records. Patent coverage from 1963 to the present and citations from 1973 to the present.
Videos
Quick Guide
Data Sources
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Data Citation IndexA data discovery tool available through the Web of Knowledge. It indexes more than two million datasets and studies across disciplines from many leading data repositories and each record includes author and institution information as well as keywords and related citations.
Videos
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Re3Data (now merged w/ Databib)Searchable catalog of over 400 research data repositories for a broad array of disciplines. Sample repositories include UniGene, which collects transcript sequences from genes, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which provides substance abuse and mental health data.
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DryadThis open-access repository for scientific and medical data allows searching of data sets and links data to original publications.
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FigshareFigshare is a web service that makes data "citable, searchable, and shareable." Research data in a variety of formats is freely available through the figshare search tool and is protected under a Creative Commons copyright license.
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GigaDBGigaDB is a repository primarily, but not exclusively, that hosts data and tools associated with articles in GigaScience;
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Sharing RepositoriesA searchable list of NIH-supported data repositories and resources that aggregate information about biomedical data. Each entry has a link to information about submitting data to and accessing data from the repository, along with a link to the website for the repository itself.
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Protein DatabaseDatabase of protein sequences from several sources, including translations from annotated coding regions in GenBank, RefSeq and TPA, as well as records from SwissProt, PIR, PRF, and PDB.
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Scientific Data (Nature)Scientific Data is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets.
Carolina Digital Repository (CDR)
The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) provides long-term access and safekeeping for scholarly works, datasets, research materials, records, and audiovisual materials produced by the UNC-Chapel Hill community. The CDR currently supports:
- Relationships with other repositories. UNC has built a relationship with BioMed Central to automatically ingest content authored by UNC researchers who only have to deposit their works once.
- Embargo. The CDR supports the attachment of an embargo with any future date to a work. Visitors can see that the document exists but cannot download it until the embargo has passed.
- Preservation. The CDR creates multiple copies of an object and monitors them over time to ensure long-term health.
- Indexing/discovery. The CDR promotes discovery of works both within the software and via external indexing sites such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
If you are interested in depositing materials in the CDR, email richarlm@email.unc.edu and the repository staff will contact you with further detail.
Therese Triumph
orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4574Kenan Science Library
Information Resources PowerPoint
Mendeley Reference Manager
Mendeley is a free reference management system that allows you to collect, manage, cite, create groups, and share research. You can add documents to your research library, make annotations to PDFs and later, using the included add-on, cite the references while writing. Online storage allows you to automatically back up and synchronize your library across desktop, web and mobile versions. Mendeley works with Microsoft Word and insert citations into research papers and create bibliographies from the citations.
More Information:
Adding References
Download and add the Web Importer bookmarklet. 
- Save the bookmarklet following the instructions per your web browser
- Find an article in one of the databases
- Click the Mendeley bookmarklet
- Review the metadata details and "save"
Here are a few more ways to add references to Mendeley.
Syncing with Mendeley Online
Saving your Mendeley Library online allows you to access your citations from anywhere.
- Go to the Mendeley website and sign in to your account
- Open up your Mendeley Desktop
- Choose "Sync Files" in your Desktop toolbar
- Your desktop and your online libraries are now synced, remember to continue to sync the libraries every time you make changes. Syncing is not automatic.
Organize your Mendeley Library
Use tags and folders to keep your library organized. Papers can have multiple tags and be in multiple folders.
To find your papers later:
- Use the filter menu (on the left) to sort by tags, authors or publications.
- Use the search box (top right) to search metadata and tags - in one folder, or in all documents.
- For some files, use the search box to search the full text of an article.
Organize your document files
Mendeley can automatically rename your PDFs and organize them into folders. Enable this feature in the Desktop settings, or rename individual files.
Cite in MS Word
To install the Mendeley Plugin you need to first close Word and then on Mendeley Desktop go to Tools > Install MS Word Plugin.
Mendeley will appear in MS Word References tab.
For instructions and screenshots, see the Mendeley Library Guide.
Journal Abbreviations for specific citation styles can be found under the "View - Citation Style" menu of your Mendeley desktop toolbar.
More Help
Search FAQ's on Mendeley's support site.
Visit Mendeley's Help Guides
For a more in-depth look at Mendeley's features, check out our Mendeley Library Guide.
Mendeley Citation Editor Instructions
- Last Updated: Oct 26, 2021 1:22 PM
- URL: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/CHEM732
