Chemistry and Chemical Technology

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Newly arrived journal issues in Chemistry

Most recent print journals are available in our Periodicals Reading Room (third floor, to the right of the elevator).

Chemistry news

• ScienceDaily
• Phys.org
• ChemistryWorld

Online articles

All NTK resources are searchable through the main search box on NTK website. See below some specific databases recommended for searching chemical and chemical technology articles.

• RSC publishing - production of the world's leading publishers of chemical literature Royal Society of Chemistry, NTK subscription provides access to full-text articles of this publisher.
• AccessScience - one of the largest and most renowned encyclopedic works online covers all fields of science and technology including many scientific articles from chemistry.
• EBSCOhost - multi-disciplinary database with more than 8500 full-text journals.
• ProQuest - a large collection of full-texts in science, technology and medicine.
• ScienceDirect - a prominent full-text peer-reviewed scientific database from Elsevier.
• SpringerLink - articles from more than 1,700 journals in science, technology, and medicine published by Springer.
• Taylor & Francis Online - Science & Technology Library collection includes more than 500 peer-reviewed academic journals published by Taylor & Francis.
• Wiley Online Library - articles from more than 1,100 eJournals focused on technology and the natural sciences published by John Wiley & Sons.
• Other recommended databases
  • IOPscience - IOP Publishing publications focused mainly on physics.
  • nature.com - Nature Publishing Group scientific titles focud on life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.
  • SAGE journals - more than 300 scientific science, technology, and medicine journals one of the world's leading publishers focusing on scientific literature SAGE.

Thanks to integration with UCT Prague's and IOCB's library NTK users have also the access to full-texts of these two institutions. The access is from all computers located in the building of NTK. Resources of all libraries are searchable through the main search box on ChemTK website. You can find here e. g. the complete production of American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry or an extensive collection of journal focused on chemistry and chemical technology on platforms ScienceDirect, SpingerLink and Wiley Online Library.

Electronic journals

A-Z list of chemistry eJournals

Open access chemistry journals

Open access chemical technology journals

Print journals

A-Z list chemistry journals

Recent issues of print journals in chemistry and chemical engineering are located in the Periodicals Reading Room on the third floor, shelves 3D060-065 and 3D183-193.

List of current chemistry journal subscriptions

List of current chemical technology journal subscriptions

Structural and reaction databases

• ChemSpider - Freely available database of chemical structures from the Royal Society of Chemistry with over twenty-nine million structures. Video about ChemSpider.
• Current Chemical Reactions - Accessed via Web of Science Core Collection, contains over one million reactions, delivers the latest synthetic methods reported in over a hundred of the world's leading organic chemistry journals. Each reaction provides complete reaction diagrams, critical conditions, bibliographic data, and author abstracts.
• Index Chemicus - Accessed via the Web of Science Core Collection, provides research data about chemical compounds, trend analyses, journals, reseacher profiles, and findings. Covering more than one hundred of the world's leading organic chemistry journals, Index Chemicus is fully-searchable by keyword or subject and offers complete graphical summaries, important reaction diagrams, and complete bibliographic information.
• PubChem - Database of chemical structures and compounds administered by the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) providing information about the biological activity of small molecules. Information files about molecules can be downloaded via FTP.
• Reaxys - Elsevier database created to serve researchers. Contains a large number of compounds from all areas of chemistry and their associated physical-chemical properties, reactions, and syntheses with links to bibliographic information containing sources of the actual data. Available on library computers; ICT students and employees can access anywhere when logged into the ICT network.

Other reference resources

• Analytical Abstracts - keeps you up to date with the most recent developments across analytical science. Covering a wide range of sources from 1980 to the present day, you can search literature records in Analytical Abstracts for specific analytes, matrices or techniques, tailor your reading to your subject area of choice or simply browse recently added articles.
• CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool - Free tool enabling researchers and librarians to more easily search bibliographic information from the CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service), 1907 - present.
• Encyclopedia of Catalysis - an extensive reference work containing detailed regarding heterogeneous, homogeneous, asymmetric, biomimetic, and biological catalysis.
• Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry - a vast encyclopedia covering all fields of electrochemistry and their applications in industry and research.
• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology - a unique information resource in the field of polymer science and technology. It contains more than 400 on topics ranging from polymer materials, characteristics of polymers, polymerization methods to the use of polymers.
• Chemical Hazards in Industry - a literature updating service providing information on safety and health hazards surrounding chemicals encountered in chemical and related industries, including topics such as health and safety, chemical and biological hazards, plant safety, legislation, protective equipment and storage. Covering a wide range of primary literature sources, including key scientific and trade journals.
• Laboratory Hazards Bulletin - a literature updating service providing information on safety measures, potential hazards and new legislation affecting laboratory workers in all fields, including R&D, analytical and hospital laboratories. Covering a wide range of primary literature sources, including key scientific and trade journals, Laboratory Hazards Bulletin includes details of relevant literature presented as searchable records.
• Learn Chemistry - Chemistry resources for Teachers and Students from Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Natural Product Updates - a literature updating service keeping you current with recent developments in natural products chemistry. Relevant content is selected from a wide range of primary sources and includes research on isolation of new natural products, biosynthesis, structure elucidation, synthesis and biological activity studies.
• Synthetic Reaction Updates - a literature updating service keeping you up to date with recent developments in synthetic organic chemistry. Covering a wide range of primary sources, Synthetic Reaction Updates includes the most important reactions published in the recent scientific literature, presented as easy to read reaction schemes that are searchable by topic and reaction type.

Find more chemical electronic resources on ChemTK website.

Web pages about chemistry

• ChemCollective - An online resource for teaching and learning about chemistry.
• ChemistryViews - Leading information resource for chemists worldwide.
• Laboratorní průvodce - Physical, chemical and mathematical tables; laboratory encyclopedia; catalog of companies; eCommerce; events calendar, and other interesting links regarding laboratory techniques.