Chemical Information Sources/SIRCh/The Publication Process

SIRCh: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry

Preprints

• Chemweb.com's Chemistry Preprint Server
• Chemical Physics Preprint Database at Brown University
• E-PRINT Network (DOE)
• arXiv.org e-Print archive
• PhilSci Archive

Selected Free Science E-Journals

• CAS Open Access Journal List
• The Alchemist
• ChemBioNews.Com
• Chemistry World (RSC)
• Frontiers in Bioscience
• Internet Journal of Science – Biological Chemistry
• Journal of Research of NIST
• Molecules; Journal of Synthetic Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry
• Network Science (NetSci)
• Organic Chemistry Highlights
• Platinum Metals Review
  • Archive, 1957-
• PLoS Public Library of Science, an organization that publishes free bioscience journals
• Science News Online
• SCIENCEbase.com (David Bradley)
• Scientific Computing; Information Technology for Science
• Scientific Computing World

Journal Collections of Publishers and Libraries

• Chemistry E-Journals at Indiana University
• Bibliotheque National's Gallica site of old journals (French)
• Old German Journals
• American Chemical Society Journals
• Royal Society of Chemistry Journals

Other Lists or Databases of Journals Data

• CASSI CAS Source Index (use to confirm publication titles and abbreviations, as well as CODEN, ISBN, or ISSN codes. The CASSI database contains a listing of publications indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) since 1907.)
• CAS DDS Holdings Database (serials currently received at Chemical Abstracts Service and nonserials whose publication date is within the past ten years)
• CAplus Core Journal Coverage List
• CAS Open Access Journal List
• JOURNAL LIST FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training
• Online-Only Chemistry Journals Formerly Monitored by CAS
• ABC Chemistry Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry
• DOAJ; Directory of Open Access Journals
• Royal Society of Chemistry LIC Periodicals Database Search
• Master Journal List (Thomson Reuters; formerly, ISI, publisher of Science Citation Index)
• Journal Titles for CA Student Edition
• Journals Referenced in the NCBI Database (NLM Catalog)
• Journal Search (Thomson Reuters)

Journal Abbreviations

• CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool (abbreviated journal titles, CODENs, and ISSNs can be searched here; Chemical Abstracts Service)
• Beyond CASSI (abbreviated journal titles from early chemical literature and other historical reference sources)
• Science and Engineering Journal Abbreviations (lists journal titles and their Chemical Abstracts abbreviations; University of British Columbia)
• Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI); print version ceased publication, 2010.
• Journal Title Abbreviations from ISI (Caltech Library Services)
• All that JAS: Journal Abbreviations (registry of Web journal abbreviation sources that list or provide access to the full journal title)

Journals: Miscellaneous

• Coverage of English-Translation Journals in Chemical Abstracts
• CAS Policy for Electronic Documents
• Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research (Editors of the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society)
• ACS Articles on Request Policy
• Open Access Directory (OAD)
• Chemistry Journal Trends (Brian Simboli, Lehigh University)