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Literature Resources (available for KTH users only)
This collection was written in 2003 by Dr Fredrik Viklund, previously in the Biocatalysis group.
 

Contents

Searching for information

SciFinder Scholar at KTH
How to get and use the program SciFinder Scholar to search Registry, CA Plus and MedLine litterature databases.

ISI Web of Science (including Science Citation Index Expanded)
Search for articles, authors and journals. Since 1975. Which articles were cited in each other?

Beilstein and Gmelin
Information on chemical compounds and syntheses with the CrossFire program.

MedLine - PubMed
Search the NCBI MedLine database for free but if you use SciFinder you will include more journals...

Citation matching

Another fine service of NCBI. Find a citation if you only have partial information on it, e.g. title, volume and page.

Libris
Is a journal or book available at a Swedish university library?

Library of Congress Catalog
The Library of Congress has 17 million books, as well as nearly 95 million maps, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio and video recordings, prints and drawings.

EBSCO Academic search
Citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. Full text for nearly 1,700 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

Mediearkivet (just push "login"), Presstext, Artikelsök
Three databases with Swedish newspapers and journals indexed in fulltext.

Affärsdata
Information about all Swedish companies, direct information from the Stockholm stock exchange and news from Direct.

See also KTHB's page on bibliographic databases

Reading articles and books

E-Journals available from KTH
These are all the online full-text journals that you can access from KTH.

E-Books available from KTH
These are the books that you can access from KTH.

Library catalog at KTHB
The library catalog at the KTH library, KTHB.

Library catalog at SU
The library catalog at the Stockholm University library, SUB.

Library catalog at KI
The library catalog at the Karolinska Institutet library, KIBIC.

Patents

Patents at ESP@CENET
European patents and patent applications. European and US patents fulltext since  around year 2000. Abstracts and bibliographic data since around year 1970.

European patent status
Current status of European patent and applications. Is it an approved patent or still an application?

US Patents
All US patents in fulltext since 1790.

Delphion
Visual relations between patents. Free use for US patents only.

Information on journals and journal names

CASSI - Chemical Abstracts Service source index
The most complete list of journals, abbreviations and information. Not available on the web.
Available on paper at KTHB and other libraries in Sweden. (Find out more about on similar records in Libris).

CAS Key Journals abbreviations
The key journals indexed in CAPlus by Chemical Abstract Services (CAS) with full names and abbreviations.

Journals in Science Citation Index Expanded
The journals indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded. Other lists of journals are also available from ISI. You will also find (web) addresses to the publishers. For some reason, abbreviations used by ISI are listed at the CalTech Library.

Medline Journal Browser
One of the litterature resouces at NCBI.

Frontiers in Bioscience
Journal name, abbreviation, ISSN and coverage for a large number of bioscience journals.

Journal abbreviation sources
A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations. Compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University Library.

JAKE - Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (Yale)
Jake will allow you to determine which research database indexes a particular journal, determine which research database contains full text of a particular journal and expand journal abbreviations.
Also available at Rutgers University (with some more info) and other places.

Impact factors
Statistics on journals about publication rate, citation frequency etc. How many articles cite articles in this journal within a year, on average?

Terms, abbreviations and definitions

IUPAC Recommendations
Recommendations on organic chemistry class names, terminology, stereochemistry etc.

IUBMB Recommendations
Recommendations on biochemical nomenclature, enzyme nomenclature,enzyme kinetics, carbohydrates, medicinal chemistry etc.

Google Glossary
Use Google to find definitions for words, phrases and acronyms collected from web pages all over Internet.

Language and style guides

Language tools

Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus
Two of the world's most well-known books on words and their meanings.

Lexin
Swedish-English-Swedish dictionary for words used in education (and academia) by Skoldatanätet. Also available in other languages.

KTH- and University dictionary
Swedish-English-Swedish dictionaries for words specific to KTH and other universities.

English and International style guides

Swedish, English, French and German
The Swedish,English, French, German versions of the style guide of the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
The PDF:s also explanain the most common proof correction marks. Note that there are differences between the languages!

Editorial Style Guide
Indexed style guide from the University of Houston, Texas, USA.
Based on the Chicago Manual of Style (FAQ available on the web).

The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Witney Medical Library
A large collection of links to various style, writing and grammar guides.

Svenska skrivregler

Svenska skrivregler i EU (samma länk som ovan)
Den Svenska versionen av skrivreglerna från Byrån för Europeiska gemenskapernas officiella publikationer.
Innehåller en förklaring av ofta tecken använda vid korrekturläsning!

Myndigheternas skrivregler
Svenska skrivregler från riksdagens språkexperter.

Språkvårdsportalen
Språkvårdsgruppens startsida för språkvårdsintresserade.

TT-språket
En samling skrivregler från TT som kan vara till hjälp när du skriver på svenska.
Om skiljetecken,svengelska, förkortningar, sammanskrivning och mycket annat.


Last updated: 2009-01-23

sidansvarig: Per Berglund