ACS Journals

ACS Journals is database of journals and books that are about chemistry and other relative subjects such as applied chemistry, biochemistry, macromolecular, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and analytical chemistry. This database has abstracts and full texts since 1996 to present which most of them are about chemistry, so it is proper for users who need to search some data of chemical or relative subjects.

How to begin
Go to http://www.car.chula.ac.th/curef-db/slist.html#science and click ACS Web Editions. The screen is shown as the following picture. 

Information search
1. Click Publications A-Z when need to browse the publications which are arranged in alphabetical order of publications’ names
2. Basic Search is divided into
    2.1 Search: Type word or phrase in the box, select an appropriate field of word or phrase (anywhere, title, author, abstract), and click Search
    2.2 Citation: Select a journal or book series, type volume and page in the boxes, and click Go
    2.3 DOI: Type Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the document and click Go
    2.4 Subject search: Select a CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) section from the 5 main topical divisions which are applied chemistry, biochemistry, macromolecular, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and analytical chemistry
3. Advanced search: When click Advanced Search, the screen is shown as the following picture. 

Search result and result management
The results screen of search word “nanofilm” is shown as the following picture. 

1. Users can sort results by selecting relevance, publication date, manuscript type, publication title, or first author’s last name as need.
2. Users can select the types of documents that users need which are all types, researches, and news, features, commentary.
3. Users can limit the data range from the left of the search result screen by selecting the limit of content type, section, publication, manuscript type, author, and date range.
4. Users can click Search Criteria to edit search.
5. Some data show CAS Section which users can click to the section that users interested in.
6. When users click the title of document, the screen is shown as the following picture. 

  >> To read full text in PDF format, click Hi-Res PDF or PDF w/ Links, click File on menu bar and then select Save as… to save file, and click File on menu bar and then select Print… to print out
  >> To export the bibliographic data to EndNote, click Download Citation and select format RIS – For EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, and most other reference management software and inclusion (citation, citation and references, or citation and abstract) and then click Download Citation(s), click Open, and select a library that users need. 

Log out from the system
If users use mode “log in”, click Log Out to log out from the system. 