Chemical Information Sources/SIRCh/Keeping Up and Looking Back

SIRCh: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry

Keeping Up and Looking Back: Current Awareness, Reviews, Document Delivery (Articles, Theses, Patents, Standards, Technical Reports, etc.)

Current Awareness

• Current Awareness User Guide
• RSC Journals Email Alerting Service
• Current Contents Connect
• EurekAlert, a comprehensive news server for up-to-date research in science, medicine, and technology

Reviews

• Annual Reviews
• Reviews in Computational Chemistry Home Page
• Bibliographic List of Review Chapters Relating to Electrochemistry (Zoltan Nagy)
• Finding Review Articles
• Reviews in Synthesis or Reaction Chemistry

Document Delivery Services

Journal Articles or Multi-Type Suppliers

• FIZ AutoDoc
• INIST Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
• British Library Document Supply Service
• National Science Library National Research Centre Canada

Dissertations and Theses

• UMI Dissertation Publishing (ProQuest)
• Dissertation Express (ProQuest)

Patents

• US Patent and Trademark Office
• WIPO GOLD (World Intellectual Property Organization)
• esp@cenet (Europe's network of patent databases)
• DEPATISnet (for German patents)
• freepatentsonline
• Micropatent
• Delphion

Standards and Specifications

• Document Center
• NSSN (search engine for standards)
• ASTM International
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• IHS Standards Store
• TECHSTREET

Technical Reports

• National Technical Reports Library
• DOE Information Bridge

Russian Language Material

• US-Russia Marketing Group (has a translations service)
• Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (GPNTB)
• The National Library of Finland (NB: especially good for Russian-language materials published prior to 1917)

Copyright Agreements

• Copyright.com (Copyright Clearance Center)