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Research Collections:
Chemistry Collection
Collection
Overview
The chemistry collection has been developed to support the
instructional and research endeavors of the Chemistry
Department at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral level.
Materials collected cover the major areas of chemistry: analytical
chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry,
and physical and theoretical chemistry. These works may be
descriptive treatments of a particular element or class of chemicals,
studies of reactions by type, or physical and theoretical studies
of chemical properties or phenomena. The extremely active research
focus of the Department, as evidenced by an extensive list of faculty
publications, and the nature of contemporary chemical research require
the provision of print and electronic resources that allow the chemist
to be alerted to the most current international research on a weekly
or even daily basis.
Delivery
of information in electronic format is a given in chemistry.
The major chemistry and interdisciplinary science indexes and abstracts
are crucial to constantly alert researchers to the newest journal
articles, patents, and technical reports. Electronic journals
are the next area of major collection growth. Increasingly, faculty
are requesting that long standing major chemistry journals and new
chemistry journal subscriptions be available in both formats.
Chemistry faculty and students prefer to access as much material
as possible in electronic format via their computer desktop.
Most undergraduate students in the program also conduct independent
research within a research group. As a result of this
activity, most undergraduate students read publications that are
at the same level of complexity as those read by graduate students
and faculty.
Marilyn
A. Grant
Chemistry Bibliographer
1-617-552-4452
E-Mail: grant@bc.edu
Selected Resources
In
the O'Neill Library:
On
the Web (Restricted to the BC Community):
Research
Guides
More information about available resources can be found in the following
resource guide: Research
Guide: Chemistry.
Interdisciplinary
Elements of Subject Area
Some materials that are collected to support chemistry are classified
with other science disciplines such as physics (e.g, spectroscopy,
radiation, electrochemical properties), biology (e.g., many areas
of biochemistry), geology (e.g., geochemistry, environmental chemistry),
and history of science (history of chemistry).
Formats
and Types of Materials
Formats collected include print, electronic, microform, and audiovisual.
Types of materials include monographs, serials, and reference works
including major indexes, abstracts, catalogs, bibliographies, yearbooks,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, research guides, and directories.
Languages
Materials published in English are emphasized. Some journals
are received in German and French. Materials may be collected in
other languages, but English is the language of choice. Chemists
will have important research papers in Chinese, Japanese, Russian,
East European languages or other languages translated.
Geographic
Areas (Subject Approach)
The major emphases are on Europe, ssssNorth America and Japan.
Time
Periods (Subject Approach)
Materials in the history of chemistry cover the periods from the
ancient Greeks to the present day. Beilstein and Gmelin index
material from the 18th and 19th centuries and Chemical Abstracts
covers the literature from 1907 to date.
Date
of Publication
The chemistry collection emphasizes current imprints, with very
limited selection of retrospective material.
Subject
Areas Collected by Library of Congress Classification Number
BCAT,
the online catalog, can be searched by LC classification number
to get a better idea of what specific titles the chemistry collection
contains. For example, the command c=QD241 will produce
the beginning of a list of works on organic chemistry. This
list can be browsed by pressing the F8 key or typing f
and pressing the Enter/Return key.
| Call
Number |
Description |
| QD71-QD142 |
Analytical
chemistry; qualitative and quantitative chemistry |
| QD146-QD197 |
Inorganic
chemistry |
| QD241-QD441 |
Organic
chemistry |
| QD450-QD801 |
Physical
and theoretical chemistry |
| QD901-QD999 |
Crystallography |
| RS403 |
Medicinal
chemistry |
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