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SciFinderⁿ
- 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: https://login.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=22CACA07X86F35055X223F8A761E25479081
Access: Students, faculty, and staff or AHEC users affiliated with UNC-CH with an AHEC Digital Library account may access from on- or off-campus, but must ALWAYS authenticate, EVEN when on-campus.

Coverage: 1967-present

Instructions on combining reference sets in SciFinder

PubMed
Database 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.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1957-present

Introduction to MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)

Guide to PubMed

Scopus
A 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.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Google Scholar
Enables 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.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Indexes 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

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1861 to present

Data Sources

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.
Dryad
This open-access repository for scientific and medical data allows searching of data sets and links data to original publications.
Figshare
Figshare 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.
GigaDB
GigaDB is a repository primarily, but not exclusively, that hosts data and tools associated with articles in GigaScience;
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Sharing Repositories
A 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.

Protein Database
Database 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.

Access: No restrictions.

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.

Resources on Funding and Grant Writing

UNC Funding Information Portal
The 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.

Complete Book of Grant Writing by Nancy Smith; E. Works
ISBN: 9781402267314
Publication Date: 2012-08-01
This 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 Otto O. Yang
ISBN: 9781461415817
Publication Date: 2012-06-12
This 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 Beverly A. Browning
ISBN: 9781118856505
Publication Date: 2014-03-05
Your comprehensive guide to finding and winning grant monies

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Writing and Citing

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
This 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).

Write Like a Chemist by Marin S. Robinson; Fredricka L. Stoller; Molly Constanza-Robinson; James K. Jones
ISBN: 9780195367423
Write 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.