Polymer Science & Engineering
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Welcome to the Polymer Science & Engineering Library Guide.
You can use this guide as a starting point in your research. The tabs on the left have more information about the following topics:
Finding books, theses, handbooks & encyclopedias
If you need help with your research, please contact your librarian, Anne Graham.
Resources Specific to Chemistry
- CAS SciFinderⁿ This link opens in a new windowFIRST-TIME USERS: Click more... below to create an account to use SciFinder
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases of chemistry and related scientific fields. Mid 1800's - present. Includes step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and more.To use SciFinder, you must create an account using your UMass Amherst email address. Click here to create the account.
After initial account creation, available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password. - Reaxys This link opens in a new windowOrganic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry data. Find structures, properties, synthesis possibilities, reactions and bioactivity data. Searchable by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Reaxys also searches NIH PubChem and eMolecules.Must create an account with a UMass Amherst email address to first use the database. After initial account creation, available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- Cambridge Structural Database WebCSD This link opens in a new windowContains crystal structure information, chemical, and bibliographic data for about 500,000 organic, metal-organic, and organometallic molecules.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics This link opens in a new windowOnline version of the 100th edition of this indispensable reference for chemical and physical data.
Covers topics including: Basic Constants; Nomenclature; Thermochemistry, Electrochemistry, and Solution Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy; Properties of Solids; Geophysics, Astronomy, and Acoustics; Health and Safety Information; Mathematical Tables; and more.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password. - Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC This link opens in a new windowStandards for analytical chemists.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
- The IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology Also known as the "Gold Book" this is a collection of nearly 7,000 terms. with authoritative definitions, spanning the whole range of chemistry.
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