CHEM 520L: Polymer Chemistry Lab

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About the Science Libraries

The Kenan Science Library is on the ground floor of Venable Hall. See our library page for locations and hours.

Safety and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

UNC Chemical Safety Information
Chemical Safety works to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control personnel exposures to chemical hazards.

MSDS Sources to Start With

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) contain information on chemicals and their properties along with health, physical, and environmental hazards. As they are provided by manufacturers, there is no centralized location so you may have to look in multiple places. Begin with the sources listed:

MSDS Search (National MSDS Repository)
MSDS plus CHEMINFO
A comprehensive collection of over 200,000 Material Safety Data Sheets for chemicals and commercial products.
Vermont SIRI MSDS Collection

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.

The Chemical Literature

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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
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
REAXYS
- A search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data, and chemical reactions in organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry
- Site interface allows search for chemicals by keyword and provides in depth detail for results
- Reaxys integrates content from three major data sources: Beilstein, Gmelin, and the Chemical Patent Database
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.
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.
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.
Web of Science Training Materials

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1955 -