Subject Guide: Forensic Science
Subject Specific Databases
ACS Journals The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation.
Analytical Chemistry This subsection of the Wiley Online Library features journals in chemical analysis, spectrometry, chromatography, and other forensic methods. The full Wiley Online Library offers an exceptional portfolio of over 1,600 journals covering life, health, physical, & social sciences.
PubChem The world’s largest collection of freely accessible chemical information from the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
PubMed The National Library of Medicine’s comprehensive database; excellent for conducting health science literature research. It searches MEDLINE and other life science journals.
NCBI Help Page Tutorials and training on PubMed, PubChem, and other resources from NCBI
SciFinder Use the registration form to create an account for yourself using your Arcadia e-mail. The premier source for Chemistry – search journal articles from Chemical Abstracts, the CAS Registry of chemical substances, patents, and chemical reactions.
ScienceDirect from Elsevier. Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals.
Related Databases & Resources
AccessMedicine Medical textbooks, including Harrison’s Online, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine.
Biomedical Reference Collection Contains over 4,000 full-text journals covering a variety of disciplines ranging from biomedicine and health sciences to the health care system and pre-clinical sciences.
Academic Search Ultimate A large, academically multidisciplinary article database that is a very good place to start a scholarly literature search.
Sociology, Anthropology, Criminal Justice Webpage A list of Landman Library’s databases that serve the topic of criminology.
Psychology Webpage A list of Landman Library’s mental and behavioral health databases.
WorldCat A huge database of books and other materials found in libraries across the U.S. and worldwide that you can borrow using Interlibrary Loan.
Google Scholar Search scholarly sources and institutional repositories (including Arcadia’s own holdings).
