Research Guides: CHEM Senior Thesis & Research Project Guide (SC): Finding Books

Finding Data, Definitions & Background Information:

ChemSpider: Building Community for Chemists
"ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information." [from website]
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
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Dictionary of Chemistry
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This latest edition of Oxford's student dictionary boasts over 4,700 entries, including nearly 350 new entries, and has broadened its coverage in biochemistry, chemoinformatics, forensic chemistry, metallurgy, and geology.

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This resource provides information on the chemical structures and biological activities of small organic molecules. Includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. Provides a search engine, compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features.

Tripod Library Catalog
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- Use Tripod to find resources available from the TriCo Libraries.
- Search for books, e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more
WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.