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ACS Web Editions, from the American Chemical Society, covers all areas of chemistry. Itoffers thirty of ACS' publicationsfor online searching and readingfull-text online. All journals are full-text with all supplementary materials and they are updated daily. All journals are in English.
For the most up-to-date search help, click "Search Tips" at the top of the ACSsearch page for help, or, consult a librarian.
On the search page there are two sections, Citation Find and Search Journals. Use Citation Find for locating a specific article that you knowwhich specific journal and volume it is in. Use Search Journals to look for articles on a particular topic or by a particular author in one or more ACS journals.
How do I start?Keyword Search:
The easiest way to get started is by using a keyword search. You can just type in terms relevant to your search topic in the boxes. For example, for articles on parenting behavior in fish, you might type in fish, parent, and behavior in the three boxes, and select "anywhere in article" in the pull-down box.
Tip: You can use an asterisk (*) at any point in a word to get all endings of that word. For ex: parent* will find parent, parents, parenting, etc.
How do I type the terms in?
When you are doing a keyword search you can use the following tools:
Boolean Operators:
Use these between your search terms:
AND - This limits your results to articles thatcontain BOTH of your search terms.
ex. fish AND behavior (This is the default)OR - This expands yourresults toinclude articles that contain EITHER of your search terms.
ex. babiesOR infants (use this for similar terms)NOT - Thislimits yourresults toarticles that contain yourfirst term BUT NOT your second.
ex. fish NOT shark*
Advanced search options
You can select a specific journal to search in the Journals by Name area, or a subject collection of journals to search in the Journals by Subject area.
The Timeframe area specifies the dates of the collection to be searched. Select ASAP for a current-awareness search that retrieves the articles from the As-Soon-As-Publishablecollection that have not yet appeared in journals. Select All for a comprehensive search that includes ASAP articles and all previously published articles.
You can also limit your search by selecting specific years of publication, e.g., 1999. in the Date Range area.
What now?
Search:
Click search and the computer will bring back a list of citations. Looking through these citations, you can use information such as the title and abstract to decide which articles are best for you to use in your research.
What do I do if I get too many results?
Limiting results:
Click "Modify Search" at the top of the page.
Below the three entry boxes there are Advanced Search Options.
- Limit the publication years to search
- Limit which journals to search.
- Add more keywords using AND
What do I do if I get too few results?
Increasing Results:
Click "Modify Search" at the top of the page.
- Take out one keyword
- Use OR instead of AND
- Use different keywords
To print:Click the "Display printer-friendly results" at the top of the results page. You can then use the print function of your browser.To e-mail, or save to a floppy disk:Copy and paste the citations you are interested in into a Word document or e-mail.
How do I get my article?
Full Text in the database:
All articles in ACS are available full-text. You do NOT need to click the "purchase" button, CSULB has already paid for your access to these articles.
Chose the HTML orPDF (Adobe Acrobat)version. You may copy and paste the HTML version, or, to email a .pdf file, you must save it in a file and then attach this file to an email addressed to yourself. To do this,save the file inPDF format by clickingon the save icon (a disk) in the tool bar for Adobe Acrobat (not the Windows toolbar). Save the file to your Workspace. Call up your email (e.g., http://webmail.csulb.edu), address the mail, and attach the file you have saved.
Journals available throughACS Web Editions
To access these journals, go to the ACS journals list .
The list of ACS Webjournals includes:
Accounts of Chemical Research
Analytical Chemistry
iochemistry
Bioconjugate Chemistry
Biomacromolecules
Biotechnology Progress
Chemical Research in Toxicology
Chemical Reviews
Chemistry of Materials
Crystal Growth & Design
Energy &Fuels
Environmental Science & Technology
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Inorganic Chemistry
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Journal of Natural Products
Journal of Organic Chemistry
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Journal of Proteome Research
Langmuir
Macromolecules
Modern Drug Discovery
Nano Letters
Organic Letters
Organic Process Research & Development
Organometallics
Today's Chemistry at Work
Other Information about ACS Web Editions
Chemical information can also be found readily by using the following databases: General Science Abstracts, ASTA (Applied Science and Technology Abstracts), Academic Search Elite, PubMed or Medline, ScienceDirect, and/or Wiley Interscience. For additional chemical information, consult a librarian who may be able to recommend additional sources of information.
Visit the reference desk on the first floor of the library,
Try 24/7 chat with a librarian, or
Set up an appointment with Cathy Outten, the Chemistry librarian.
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Cathy Outten, Chemistry Librarian
University Library, California State University, Long Beach
Last Updated 4/21/08