To locate books on your topic, use UC Library Search (https://search.library.ucsb.edu/discovery/search?vid=01UCSB_INST%3AUCSB&lang=en. As a starting point, use a keyword search on the likely terms. You will get a mix of books, articles and other resources. Use the Refine my search" options on the left-hand side of the screen to narrow your results (for example) to just books. You are unlikely to find references to a single compound, but may be able to find useful books on classes of compounds, such as carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins or enzymes. For more general searches, try a subject search on "biochemistry" or "molecular biology", then browse through the suggested alternative subject headings to see if a more specific one is recommended before browsing the titles under "Biochemistry" itself. Call number ranges for biochemistry include:
Titles include:
Collection of standard research methods in the biosciences. They include: step-by-step protocols with annotations that alert you to special considerations, tips, and optional procedures; alternate and support protocols to accommodate different equipment and desired results; materials lists for each protocol; detailed recipes for reagents, solutions, and culture media; expert commentaries with troubleshooting instructions, and planning considerations; tables and figures to clarify complex procedures; and appendices filled with useful reference material.
The online protocols available to UCSB include:
Electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Connects researchers with relevant and important protocols and methods to support their research projects. Includes content from Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, SpringerProtocols and Protocols Exchange. NOTE: UCSB does not have full text access to all protocols indexed in this database.
New user? You must register for an account. Go to the SciFinder Registration Information page to begin. Commercial use of your University account is strictly prohibited. Searches Chemical Abstracts Service databases, including chemical substances, chemical reactions, chemical suppliers and references, with one of the largest collections in each area. Also provides unique full text access to a large collection of chemical patents via its PatentPak feature.
SciFindern allows searching by author, topic or chemical substance in the Chemical Abstracts Service databases:
SciFindern includes structure drawing tools for structure and substructure searching of chemicals and reactions, and similarity searching of organic compounds. It also provides a Retrosynthetic Plan tool to help you create synthetic paths to a desired substance.
Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. Organized as three linked databases: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. Also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.
Citations and abstracts for millions of articles in medicine, life science, and health administration. Includes full contents of MEDLINE, plus "in process" citations for recent articles, and some additional references from life sciences journals.
Our listing provides users with additional functionality including “Get it at UC” links to full text of journals.
Users who do not have a UCSBnet ID and password can use the non-UC version of PubMed for searching.
Web of Science consists of the following databases: