Primary sources on the Internet


Electronic journals and newsletters

A term used to describe a journal that is published in digital form to be displayed on a computer screen.

Access to Chemical journals through a convenient single web location is provided by Chemport - users search the CAplus database and obtain access to journals from Academic Press, AAAS, ACS, AIP Chapman and Hall, IOP, RCS and Springer-Verlag.

Example of full-text journals available in chemistry and chemical engineering are:

Lists of electronic journals in chemistry are available at a number of sites:

Newsgroups

Computers linked by a telecommunications systems. They often access to the people who use computers on the networks, by means of e-mail, conferencing or chat facilities.

A list of Newsgroups of interest to chemists is available from the Virtual Library at UCLA.

Communication can also be carried out through mailing lists. An Overview of chemical mailing lists.

Pre-prints


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