Subject Guides: Chemistry: eBooks and eResources

Streaming Video

Latest Thinking
Latest Thinking is an open-access video journal that provides summaries of research findings from several branches of academics, including biology, physics, chemistry, life sciences, physical sciences, and more.
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The goal of Latest Thinking is to increase the impact of the author’s research and promote transparency of the scientific process.
Each video averages around 10 minutes and contains five parts: research question, methods, findings, relevance, and outlook. The videos are based on original research published in another scholarly publication, sometimes a publication with large subscription fees.
In the videos of the journal, authors make their research more accessible by explaining their work in language that is easier to understand. Some videos include animations and illustrations that help demystify abstract concepts and unfamiliar terminology.

Open Textbooks

The following are online open textbooks that you can access for free to supplement the textbooks in your courses. To learn more about open textbooks visit the Open Educational Resources guide.

Chemistry 2e
Chemistry 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course.
Chemistry Atoms First 2e
The intention of “atoms-first” involves a few basic principles: first, it introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach, and it threads these themes through subsequent chapters.
Introduction Chemistry 1st Canadian Edition
Chemistry and the Environment: A Chemistry Perspective for discussion of Environmental Issues

eBooks

Reference eBook Collections

Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering
Search the complete contents of 23 encyclopedias and major reference works from Elsevier (over 200 volumes in print)
Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering
Search the complete contents of 13 encyclopedias and major reference works from Elsevier (over 80 volumes in print)
Knovel
Search over one thousand Science and Engineering reference eBooks. Includes interactive tables

Encyclopedias

e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
14 volumes
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry
6 volumes
Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry
3 volumes
Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science (3rd ed.)
10 volumes
Encyclopedia of Toxicology (3rd ed.)
4 volumes
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (5th ed.)
27 volumes
Ullman's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (7th ed.)
40 volumes
eMagRes: Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance
10 volumes
Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery
6 volumes
Comprehensive Membrane Science and Engineering
4 volumes

Handbooks

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Seventeenth Edition
The Go-To Reference for Chemists for More Than 70 Years - Lange's provides a reliable one-stop source of factual information for today's working chemist. Within its pages, you will find an unmatched compilation of facts, data, tabular material, and experimental findings that span every area of chemistry. Included in this fully updated Seventeenth Edition are listings of the properties of more than 4,000 organic and 1,400 inorganic compounds. ;
CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety

Dictionaries

eBook Collections

ACS Publications This link opens in a new window
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Complete American Chemical Society eBook collection from 1949 to present
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eBooks This link opens in a new window
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All RSC eBooks from 1968 to present
Organic Reactions This link opens in a new window
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Complete content (over 80 volumes) of this Wiley eBook series from 1942 to present
Each reaction type is evaluated through a comprehensive peer-review process. Contains exhaustive detail on the individual reactions as well as links to published examples.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Complete Elsevier eBook collection from 2007 to present; incomplete coverage for earlier years. The "Advanced Search" fuction will allow you to limit your search to e-books only
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
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Complete Springer eBook collection from 2005 to present. The "Advanced Search" fuction will allow you to limit your search to e-books only
Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Includes Taylor & Francis e-books, CRC Press e-books, and Routledge Handbooks Online.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Complete eBook collection from 2013 to present; incomplete coverage for earlier years

Professional eBooks

Theses and Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Alberta This link opens in a new window This content of this database is a subset of Dissertations and Theses Global, covering University of Alberta publications from 1954 through 2014. Full text is available for many, but not all, titles. NOTE: UofA no longer contributes content to this database. See also: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (University of Alberta).
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Contains text in Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French / Français, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Middle English, North American Indian, Old English, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Syriac, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Venda, Welsh, and Yiddish and languages.
Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window Also known as:|Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global|. Includes contributions from North American graduate schools and European universities. Coverage begins with the first U.S. dissertation accepted in 1861. UofA theses and dissertations are included from 1954 through 2014, with full text available for many, but not all, titles. NOTE: UofA no longer contributes content to this database. See also: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (University of Alberta).
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Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window This site is a collaboration between Library and Archives Canada and Canadian universities. It provides free access to the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations.
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
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