Guides: Course Guide ~ CHEM 125 / Principles of Chemistry: Large Format Poster Resources

Creating Large Format Posters

Web of Science
Index of articles from over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to multidisciplinary searches, Web of Science provides tools to track citations to individual articles from their date of publication to the present. Now includes Book Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Coverage: 1900-present.
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Videos

ToxInfo
ToxInfo is a free resource for searching databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and environmental health.

PubMed
National Library of Medicine index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Coverage: 1950-present.
SciFinder-n
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Provides access to chemical information available from CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service). Includes references to published literature, organic and inorganic substances, reactions, properties, patents and access to MEDLINE. Coverage: 1907-present.
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Training Materials
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
Includes AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. Coverage: 1960-present.

GreenFile
Index of scholarly journals, government publications and general interest magazines on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and other aspects of human impact to the environment. Coverage: 1974-present.

Academic Search Premier
Index of nearly 8,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in all areas of study. Includes the full text for more than 4,600 titles. Coverage varies by publication.
Nexis Uni
More than 11,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Search Tips

Hamilton Library Catalog
The library catalog is a one-stop search tool for books, articles, videos, digital media, and more.

In order to evaluate sources, try the ACCORD method.

Briefly, ACCORD means:

For more detail, take a look at this guide on evaluating resources

Ask questions.

Think of questions about your topic, and search in databases.
After reading articles, think about what interests you. Ask new questions, and look for more information.

Find the starting point.

Hamilton Library Catalog - A simple, one-stop search tool for books and e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more. All Searches
Academic Search Premier - Indexes journals across disciplines. General Searches
Subject Guides - See We Suggest sections for discipline-specific databases. Advanced Searches
How Do I Find... - News sources, images, statistics, primary sources, and more. Targeted Searches

Keep searches simple.

Refine your search.

Repeat your search after reading some of the information gathered in the previous step
Mine the bibliographies of articles on your topic for additional sources

Get help.

With your project group, book an appointment during the week of October 1-5.

In the appointment content, please indicate your last names and your topic.

Please bring the articles you have located to the appointment.

Email Glynis Asu, Science Research Librarian: gasu@hamilton.edu