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This guide is designed to help you get started on your Chemistry research. Use this guide to find books, journal articles, and additional resources such as handbooks, spectra, and chemical safety information.
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If you need help, please contact Jenna Thomson, Liaison Librarian at 778-782-3269 or jennat@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.
Highlighted resources
Physical & Chemical Properties Finder
Resources to help you find chemical and physical properties.
Reaxys
Drawn from Beilstein and Gmelin, Reaxys provides experimental data, in organic, inorganic and organometalic chemistry.
SciFinder
Standard database to find chemical information.
Web of Science
Science citation index covering scholarly journals in all areas of science.
CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
Standard handbook to find property information, including wavelength.
Common Chemistry
Quick source of chemical names and CAS registry numbers.
IsisCB Explore
A research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014.