Polymer Science & Engineering
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These indexing databases are good for finding research articles about polymer science & engineering.
- CAS SciFinderⁿ This link opens in a new window
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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 or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password. - Web of Science This link opens in a new windowIndex to articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines.Search by cited reference, topic, author, and more. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1900-present; and Science 1900-present.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.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowComprehensive access to engineering journal articles, conference papers, and web sites, 1884-present.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.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowUse to access many UMass online journal subscriptions.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.
You can access Google Scholar with UMLinks buttons from outside the UMass Amherst IP range ("off campus") by two methods:
1. Access Google Scholar through the Library web site by using this link.
2. Go to generic Google Scholar.
a. Click on "Settings."
b. Click on Library links.
c. Type in "University of Massachusetts" or "UMass Amherst" (or a few other variations).
d. Check "University of Massachusetts Amherst - UMass Check for Full Text" and Save.
e. You will be asked to authenticate somewhere along the way to full text. - PubMed This link opens in a new windowNational Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1946-present. PubMed includes all MEDLINE content, plus content from additional journals and books in the life sciences.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.
- 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.
Specialized Library Databases
- ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new windowJournals of the Association for Computing Machinery, its conference proceedings, magazines, technical reports, and more, 1954-present. Includes some works published by affiliated organizations. Covers the fields of computing and information technology.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.
- BioOne This link opens in a new windowBioscience research journals in full text. Covers 179 titles from 136 society and nonprofit publishers, including some open access journals. Coverage varies; earliest is 1994-present.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.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowComprehensive access to engineering journal articles, conference papers, and web sites, 1884-present.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.
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowAll IEEE journals (including Spectrum), standards, transactions, and major conference proceedings since 1988, plus some content since 1952, to present.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. As of May 2022, IEEE no longer supports Internet Explorer, please use another browser for the best experience.
- MathSciNet This link opens in a new windowAn index of the scholarly literature of the mathematical sciences, 1940-present.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.
- Scitation This link opens in a new windowThe leading journals and conference proceedings from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing. Topics include: Acoustics; Astronomy/astrophysics; Atomic/molecular physics; Biological physics; Energy; Geophysics; Materials science; Mathematical physics; Nanotechnology; Nuclear physics; optical physics; Particle physics; Physical chemistry; Plasma physics; Quantum mechanics; Rheology and fluid dynamics; Statistical physics.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.
- SciTech Connect This link opens in a new windowReplaces DOE Information Bridge and Energy Citations. Citations, and some full text, of US DOE research and development reports.1943-present.Content is freely available for use by all.
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new windowOptics and photonics applied research information from eBooks, journals, and conference proceedings, 1989-present.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.
- Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed, expert reports on research and development topics in engineering and computer science; includes access to Complete Collections One, Two, Three, and Four.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.
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