University of Texas Libraries
Finding Articles
- Finding Articles 101
- A basic tutorial for students.
- SciFinder - Chemical Abstracts
- Search the full Chemical Abstracts database back to 1907.
- Chemical Abstracts -- Student Edition
- Search about 300 key journals (1967-present) on the Web. More information
- Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
- Search for papers that cite earlier papers. 1975-present. Tips and more info
- PubMed
- Index to world biomedical literature, 1950-present.
- Google Scholar
- Google's scholarly literature search engine should not be relied upon for comprehensive research, especially when more reliable and authoritative index tools are available. Off-campus UT-Austin users should use this proxied link to have access to licensed full text.
- Journal of Chemical Education Index
- Keyword and author index to JCE, with links to full text, back to 1924. Search for Title words for best coverage.
- Gray Literature
- Tools and tips for locating conference papers, meeting abstracts, preprints, and technical reports.
- Historical Chemical Literature
- Tools and tips for locating articles before Chemical Abstracts began in 1907.
- TOCs and RSS Feeds
- You can register for email alerts of new tables of contents directly with many electronic journals. Go to the journal's home page and follow instructions provided by the publisher.
Some publishers also provide RSS feeds for new journal content. Among them:
- You can set up customized "Keep Me Posted" alerts in SciFinder, Web of Science, PubMed, and many other index systems. These will run searches periodically and email you the new results.
- The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes three searchable current-awareness databases that cover selected journals and offer graphical abstracts:
Journal Alerting Services
