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CHMC47: Bio-Organic Chemistry

This guide will help students enrolled in CHMC47 Bio-Organic Chemistry to complete assignments, specifically the Literature Searching Assignment and installing relevant chemistry software.

Search or browsing within a Journal

1. To search or browse within a specific journal, you need to know the journal name.

What if you just have an acronym?

Try typing in the abbreviation in the catalogue
Sometimes journal abbreviations are so common (like JACS) that you can simply use the acronym in the search box

This only works for common abbreviations. If the abbreviation is uncommon, try looking it up in one of these sources:

CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Source Index)
Useful for finding full journal titles from abbreviations (or abbreviations for titles), especially older titles.

If none of these methods work try Google Scholar or ask your librarian (contact information on the left)

2. Type the acronym (or full journal title) into the Catalogue or e-Journals search boxes on the library homepage:

3. View the results. Select the link for the current issues of the journal.

4. Now you can either browse through the contents of the journal or use the webpage's search function to search within the journal.