ACS National Meeting Talks Online
     
Recordings of selected talks presented at American Chemical Society National Meetings. |
| Chemical Structure Lookup Service
Allows look up of compounds in over 100 databases with more than 74 million entries (46 million unique structures). The compound can be searched by formula, InChI, SMILES, and other identifiers. |
| ChemIDplus
Allows you to search the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) database of over 370,000 chemicals, and locate information about these substances in the NLM family of databases. You search by chemical name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula, and structure or substructure. Only a small fraction of known substances are included. In contrast, the Explore Substances section of SciFinder Scholar covers millions of substances |
| ChemxSeer
This chemistry search engine under development by the National Science Foundation provides access to documents and repositories of experimental data. You will be able to search tables within published documents |
| PubChem
Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is not as complete as SciFinder Scholar. |
| Query Chem
A web-based program that allows you to perform Google searches for substances based on chemical structures in combination with text terms. You need to compare the results you obtain from any search engine such as this one or Google Scholar to what is present in SciFinder Scholar, a much more comprehensive source. |
| SciFinder Scholar
   
SciFinder Scholar is a comprehensive database indexing the literature of chemistry and all related sciences. SciFinder Scholar is particularly useful for locating articles concerned with specific chemical substances and reactions. This resource is available to CCNY users only. You must pre-register to use this database. Please point your browser to the following URL to self-register: http://tinyurl.com/d95qfw |
Information Bridge
Over 230,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations from the Department of Energy research report literature. Included are physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to Department of Energy's mission. |
| SciTopics
Brief up-to-date summaries in a wide range of scientific topics. There are over 100 reviews in chemistry. |
American Chemical Society Journals
The American Chemical Society (ACS) publishes 38 journals and magazines covering all aspects of the science of chemistry. Index and abstract information is available for all of these publications. Full text is available for 33 of the titles. With the exception of Chemical and Engineering News, all of the ACS journals are scholarly, peer-reviewed publications oriented toward senior or higher level readers. Nevertheless, several of the journals have sections of non-scholarly articles of possible interest. The ACS journals are only a starting point for any chemistry search. Only Chemical Abstracts; Scifinder Scholar provides complete coverage of chemistry. |
| IngentaConnect
A searchable database of the tables of contents of many of the leading scholarly journals in all subject areas. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry Journals
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) publishes 19 journals covering a full range of topics in chemistry. Full text is available for 13 of these journals plus their predecessor titles; tables of contents and abstracts are available for the other 6. All of the RSC journals are scholarly, peer-reviewed publications oriented toward senior or higher level researchers. The RSC journals are only a starting point for any chemistry search. Only Chemical Abstracts; Scifinder Scholar provides complete coverage of chemistry. |
| ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a database of all the materials published by Elsevier and its affiliates, consisting of over 1800 journal and book titles. All subject areas are covered, including several important chemistry journals. The ScienceDirect chemistry journals are only a starting point for any chemistry search. Only Chemical Abstracts; Scifinder Scholar provides complete coverage of chemistry. |
| SpringerLink
SpringerLink is a database providing indexing and abstracting for over 2,400 scholarly journals and magazines, including several important chemistry journals. Full text articles are available for only some of these titles. Materials available in full text are identified by the presence of a green square to the left of the item. The SpringerLink chemistry journals are only a starting point for any chemistry search. Only Chemical Abstracts; Scifinder Scholar provides complete coverage of chemistry. In addition to these journals, SpringerLink also has full-text access to 15,000+ ebooks. |
| Web of Knowledge
Science Citation Index Expanded includes most of the major chemistry journals. However, this database is only a starting point for any chemistry search, because only Chemical Abstracts; Scifinder Scholar provides in-depth indexing and complete coverage of all fields of chemistry. Science Citation Index features the ability to do citation searching. |
| Wiley Online Library
Wiley InterScience is a database consisting of journals, reference works, and online books. All subject areas are covered including some important chemistry journals. Please note that you cannot determine in advance whether or not a journal is available in full text unless you check the E Journals A to Z link on the CCNY Library Research Resources by Subject page. The Wiley chemistry journals are only a starting point for any chemistry search. Only Chemical Abstracts; Scifinder Scholar provides complete coverage of chemistry. |
Basics of MRI
An electronic text book on magnetic resonance imaging. |
| Basics of NMR
A text book on nuclear magnetic resonance for chemists. |
| Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic
An online textbook that reorganized the topics into a less traditional order. |
| BookShelf: Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects
Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects Siegel, George J.; Agranoff, Bernard W.; Albers, R. Wayne; Fisher, Stephen K.; Uhler, Michael D., editors Philadelphia: Lippincott,Williams & Wilkins ; c1999 |
| BookShelf: Biochemistry
Biochemistry, Fifth Edition by Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co. ; c2002 You can view for free, sections of this popular textbook, by entering a search term. |
| chem1 virtual textbook
This e-book has chapters on fundamentals and advanced topics in electrochemistry. |
| Chemical dynamics
This 1968 textbook by Joseph B. Dence and Harry B. Gray is now freely available. |
| Chemistry Books from the Internet Archive
This site from the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) lists many chemistry books, primarily older books, available for downloading. |
| Chromatography Book Series
Thirteen e-books on all aspects of chromatography, including column, liquid, gas, capillary, thin-layer, and preparative. |
| CUNY+ Library Catalog
Every book in this "Books & E-Books" section contains the full-text of these books, freely available from anywhere. The "CUNY+ Library Catalog" is the online catalog for the print holdings of The City College Libraries and all other CUNY libraries. You can search an individual CUNY library catalog or search the holdings of all CUNY libraries. |
| Ebrary - Academic Complete
Ebrary contains the full text of more than 45,000 nonfiction books, all from academic publishers. The books cover a wide array of subjects including more than 100 chemistry books. |
| Electrons and Chemical Bonding
This 1965 textbook by Harry B. Gray is now freely available. |
| Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction
This 1962 book has been digitized and mounted on the web as a free site. |
| Introduction to the Analysis of Spin-Spin Splitting in High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Spectra
This textbook by the renowned John D. Roberts is now available for free on the web. |
| Ligand Substitution Processes
This 1966 textbook by By Cooper H. Langford and Harry B. Gray is now freely available. |
| Medical Biochemistry Page
An encyclopedic textbook of biochemistry. |
| Molecular electronic structures: an introduction
This 1980 textbook by Carl J. Ballhausen and Harry B. Gray is now freely available. |
| Molecular orbital theory: an introductory lecture note and reprint volume
This 1965 textbook by Carl A Ballhausen and Harry B Gray is now freely available. |
| NetLibrary
NetLibrary is a collection of more than 1000 online books in all subject areas. Also included in NetLibrary is the Project Gutenberg database of over 3,400 books from all historical periods. Books range from works of fiction and other literature to scientific and technical books. Materials are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels. |
| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Applications to Organic Chemistry
This textbook by the renowned John D. Roberts is now available for free on the web. |
| Online Books Page
From the University of Pennsylvania, more than 35,000 freely-accessible e-books, including 21st Century imprints from sources such as the U. of Pittsburgh Press. |
| Organic Chemistry
From Wikibooks; Open books for an open world, this ongoing and developing project has contributions from many authors on many aspects of organic chemistry. |
| Organic Syntheses
This series started in 1921 and continuing to the present provides contains detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. |
| Organometallic HyperTextBook
An introduction to this field and a guide to many specific reactions. |
| Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry
This 1993 book by Alan J. Rocke is now freely available. You can also find other freely available chemistry books on this site by pointing your browser to: http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/titles_public.html. Click the "Search" button then on the next screen in the box titled "Search in books for:" type chemistry. On the next screen, select "public access books" from the pull-down menu |
| Springer eBook Collection in Chemistry and Materials Science
You can also search for and find these ebooks in the CUNY+ catalog. |
| Virtual Textbook Organic Chemistry
This electronic textbook has materials that may be used in a formal course of organic chemistry. |
Acronyma
A large dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations including many scientific and technical terms. In addition to over 400,000 English language entries, Acronyma also has entries in Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese. |
| Chemistry Dictionaries
From yourdictionary.com this site has links to several general and specialized chemistry dictionaries and glossaries. |
| Combichem Glossary
This online dictionary defines the terms in the new field of combinatorial chemistry. |
| Electrochemistry Dictionary
Simple and brief definitions of over 800 words and phrases used often in electrochemistry. In some cases, a second paragraph provides further information. |
| IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology - the Goldbook
A comprehensive dictionary of nearly 7,000 terms. This is an updated version of the 1997 print edition. |
Electrochemistry Encyclopedia
Contains popular-science style articles describing many aspects of electrochemistry. New articles are added at irregular intervals, and all articles are periodically updated as recent developments occur in the field. |
| Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Ullmann's is an electronic version of one the foremost reference sources for applied chemistry and chemical engineering. Ullmann's consists of nearly 1000 detailed articles by leading chemists and chemical engineers. Each article includes a comprehensive bibliography with links (when available) to the original source material. The content of the articles is fairly sophisticated and is most appropriate for junior or higher level users. This online source complements our printed encyclopedia, the Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology (Shelved at TP9 .K54 2004 in our Reference Collection). |
Chemical Information Sources
This Wiki is a guide to many sources of references materials in chemistry. |
| Chemistry from Caltech
This guide provides clear links to various types of chemistry information. |
| Chemsoc
From the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemsoc is for everyone interested in the chemical sciences - with events, features, links, educational materials plus the ever-popular Visual Elements Periodic Table and Timeline |
| ChemWeb.com
The ChemWeb Chemistry Portal a massive site formerly produced by the publisher Elsevier is a guide both to free sites, such as job listings, and to sites open only to paid-up subscribers such as Elsevier's online journals. |
| CWM Global Search - Finding Chemical Information on the Internet
Search the Internet by chemical structure, substance name, or Chemical Abstracts Registry Number. The free version of their software allows searching in PubChem, Google, and a selection of sample compounds. |
| Information Retrieval in Chemistry WWW Server
This ChemInformatics host aims at bringing colleagues closer to information offered across the Internet in the field of Chemistry and Chemistry related fields. Some Internet resources are included for both novice and advanced Internet users. |
| Intute Chemistry Gateway
This portal has links to high quality resources. Each site has been evaluated and characterized by subject specialists in the United Kingdom. |
| Links for Chemists
This site is an index of over 7,850 chemistry resources on the web. |
| Martindale's - The Virtual Chemistry Center
A guide to chemistry databases, journals, and course materials. |
| Rolf Claessen's Chemistry Index
This site is a guide to hundreds of chemistry web sites. You can access it most efficiently by clicking on the listed categories (databases, companies, etc.). |
| Science.Gov
A gateway to scholarly science & technology information from 14 scientific and technical organizations from 10 major U.S. government science agencies. Includes technical reports, journal citations, databases, federal websites, and fact sheets. |
| Sheffield Chemdex
The Sheffield Chemdex is a comprehensive chemistry directory containing more than 7,100 international links. Information is organized into thirteen main categories (universities, learned societies, government, companies, chemistry, compounds and molecules, communication, people, software and standards, the periodic table, the elements, and miscellaneous links). Twenty-three subjects, from analytical to theoretical chemistry, appear under the chemistry category heading. The site also includes pag |
| Wired Chemist
This multifaceted site has various features such as pedagogical animations, an introduction to chemistry, modules on important topics in chemistry, demonstrations of laboratory techniques, NMR spectral data and problems, and more. All of these are designed to help students learn chemistry and to provide professionals with information of value. The site has four main divisions. They are Chemistry, Mineralogy, Environmental and NMR. |
Alibaba.com; chemicals section
Links to chemical business, buyers and suppliers. |
| BuyersGuideChem
A large directory of chemicals and chemical suppliers on the Internet. |
| chem.com
Catalogs and directories of chemical suppliers, distributors, manufacturers, and custom synthesis companies. |
| ChemBlink
A listing of suppliers of chemicals in China. |
| ChemDiv
Links to suppliers of chemicals. You can search by structure. |
| ChemExper Chemical Directory
Enables you to search for suppliers of chemicals and link to individual company web sites. |
| Chemical business, buyers and suppliers (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Links to chemical business, buyers and suppliers. |
| Chemical Online; A Vert Marketplace for Industry Professionals
Serves the product-sourcing and information-seeking needs of chemical professionals working on chemical manufacturing, chemical processing, chemical engineering, chemical contract manufacturing, chemical tanks and mixers, and chemical production. |
| Chemical Register; The Online Chemical Buyers Guide
Provide buyers free, quick, easy, and powerful services for locating suppliers worldwide. A comprehensive online reference database of suppliers of products and services used in the Chemical industries. Buyers can efficiently search and browse over 9,000 vendors and 50,000 products. |
| ChinaChemNet; Gold China Chemical Suppliers
Links to chemical business, buyers and suppliers in China. |
| ICIS search - Global Chemical Suppliers Search
Enables you to search for suppliers of chemicals and link to individual company web sites. |
| Indian Chemical Portal
A complete chemical marketplace giving an insight into the Indian Chemical Industry with the latest in Trade Offers, EXIM Policies, Events, Organisations and lots more. |
| Kellysearch.com
A guide to finding products, companies, and services in all areas of manufacturing. |
| Labseeker
Search the catalogs more than 30000 suppliers of chemicals/pharmaceuticals. Property information on products is included. |
| MolPort
A marketplace that specializes in rare chemicals. |
| R & D Chemicals
R&D Chemicals is a common and freely accessible chemicals catalog and directory of suppliers of products and services for research and development over the internet. Their goal is to create a common and freely accessible database of chemicals and directory of companies providing products and services that support drug discovery in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry. |
| SciFinder Scholar
One part of this comprehensive database is a guide to commercial suppliers of chemicals. After locating your substance in an Explore Substances search, click the Commercial Sources link. SciFinder Scholar is available to CCNY users only. You must pre-register to use this database. Please point your browser to the following URL to self-register: http://tinyurl.com/d95qfw |
| SciQuest
SciQuest helps academic and research-centric organizations realize the potential of strategic procurement. Now you can bring more spend under management. Drive higher compliance with contracts. Leverage negotiating power with suppliers. SciQuest empowers higher education eprocurement and life sciences eprocurement to put the focus back where it belongs: on the core mission. |
| Sigma Aldrich
Among the various features offered (such as FT-NMR and FT-IR Raman spectra), ordering information is available for many chemicals. |
| ThomasNet.com
A guide to finding products, companies, and services in all areas of manufacturing. |
Alchemist
An online magazine for the latest chemical news. |
| Chemistry Magazine
An electronic magazine published three times a year by the American Chemical Society. Their experienced team of professional science writers delivers articles that provide a snapshot of current happenings throughout the world of chemistry. The information in Chemistry is useful to American Chemical Society members, student affiliates, and those interested in learning more about the chemical sciences and the American Chemical Society. |
| Chemistry World
This online magazine from the Royal Society of Chemistry delivers the latest chemistry news every day. Some of its features are in podcasts. |
| Chempod
A bimonthly free audio show from Nature journals for the chemistry community. It features important research from the Nature journals, interviews, in-depth commentary, location reports and analysis from journalists covering chemistry around the world. |
| Distillations
A weekly podcast on the past, present, and future of chemistry, with interviews, features, commentaries, reviews, and the Element of the Week. |
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Sponsored by the American Chemical Society, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Chemical Heritage Foundation is a national history center devoted to the chemistry and related molecular sciences and industries. |
| Chemistry: A Historical Perspective
A collection of essays arranged in more or less chronological order describing the development of chemical concepts from prehistory to the present. |
| Classic Chemistry
A collection of classic papers in chemistry, including a two dictionaries of obsolete chemical terms. Note also the link to "History of chemical resources on the internet". |
| Division of History, American Chemical Society
The official web site of the History of Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to information about the Division itself and its activities, the site includes links (under Further Information on the bottom left) to many outstanding history of chemistry sites. |
| HYLE: International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry
HYLE is an open access peer-reviewed journal covering all philosophical aspects of chemistry. The full text of all issues (1995 present) is available for viewing online. The earliest issues are in German. |
| National Historic Chemical Landmarks
This history website from the American Chemical Society explores more than 50 firsts in chemistry and related sciences. It includes locations where major advances in chemical research occurred. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group
The official web site of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Historical Group includes information about the Group and its activities, and a list of useful links on the history of chemistry. |
| Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Established in 1937, SHAC is one of the oldest organizations dedicated to the study of the history of the chemical sciences. The site includes links to news, event announcements, and the official journal of the Society, Ambix. |
| Trailblazing
An interactive timeline compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians. It celebrates three and a half centuries of scientific endeavor and has been launched to commemorate the Royal Society's 350th anniversary in 2010. This site describes historic events and provides access to historic scientific articles |
ACS Directory of Graduate Research
This directory is now free online. |
| American Chemical Society
This society's home page has links for both society members and non-members to its service and products, such as career services and job listings. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry
This service from the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry includes guides to products and special services, such as job listings. |
ACS Directory of Graduate Research
This directory is now free online. |
| ACS Graduate Education Newsletter
This semi-annual newsletter is one of the resources produced by the American Chemical Society for undergraduate students applying to graduate school, current graduate students, and post-doctorates transitioning to careers in chemistry. |
| American Chemical Society
This society's home page has links for both society members and non-members to its service and products, such as career services and job listings. |
| CareerBuilder.com
A large job bank. |
| Careerjet
An employment search engine that has a classified listing of job openings both in the U.S. and other countries. |
| Careers in Chemistry
Career information primarily for undergraduate chemistry students. However, the audience for this site could also include graduate and even high school students as well as chemists contemplating a change in career at any stage of their academic or professional life. |
| CTI Career Search
Information and advice on hundreds of employment categories and thousands of schools, to help people find and pursue careers of interest to them. Included are comparative salary data, news summaries, and feature articles. |
| Great Sample Resumes
Sample resumes, resume writing tips, and cover letters for nearly every profession. |
| Job Search USA
Connects job seekers to employers |
| job-hunt
Locate jobs banks by subject and location. Also has Job searching advice and tips. |
| Monster
A large job bank. |
| Naturejobs
A job bank of science jobs worldwide. This site also offers career guidance. |
| New Scientist Jobs
A free database of hundreds of science jobs. You can also upload your resume. |
| Occupational Outlook Handbook
For hundreds of different types of jobs the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you, the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions, job search tips, and links to information about the job market in each State. Simply type in the name of the occupation you are interested in learning about, in the A-Z Index. |
| PhDs.org: Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources
Career information for students who are interested in Ph.D. programs and those who have a Ph.D. Among the resources here are getting into and succeeding in graduate school, postdoctoral life, and finding jobs. |
| Resources on Careers in Chemical Information
Links to both online and printed resources on the many types of careers in chemical information. These varied professions include, information specialists, database searchers, science and chemistry librarians, patent specialists, as well as careers in publishing, science writing, public service, entrepreneurship, chemical informatics, and computational chemistry. |
| Riley Guide
The Riley Guide introduces you to the online job search, listing many online sites and services that are useful for your job search. We do not post jobs nor resumes but instead point you to the places that do. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry
This service from the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry includes guides to products and special services, such as job listings. |
| Science Careers: from the journal Science
Job listings for scientists and engineers in industry, academia, and non-profit organizations. Also has career advice and information about graduate programs. |
| TrueCareers
Jobs in the sciences and engineering are among the many types of job openings posted here. You can search both by type of job and location, and you can also post your resume. |
ChemGameTutor
A series of games on different subjects in general chemistry that are designed to help introductory chemistry students practice skills necessary for success in their classes in a fun and run format. Here students can refine their chemistry knowledge through play. |
| Chemical Information Instructional Materials
Contains many guides and tutorials on using the chemical literature. |
| Chemsoc
From the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemsoc is for everyone interested in the chemical sciences - with events, features, links, educational materials plus the ever-popular Visual Elements Periodic Table and Timeline |
| MERLOT Chemistry Portal
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning (MERLOT) has learning materials and tutorials on many different areas of chemistry. |
| Theoretical Chemistry: A Self-Guided Introduction for College Students
Provides college science majors with a brief introduction to the field of theoretical chemistry, both in a historical context and as it is practiced today. It is also designed to offer practicing chemists and other scientists perspective about how this field can impact their own. |
| Virtual Chemistry
Multimedia demonstrations, simulations, animations, and experiments for teaching chemistry. |
| Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (VIPEr)
A repository of inorganic chemistry teaching materials and a user-friendly platform for social networking tools that facilitate virtual collaboration and community building among inorganic chemists. |
| XCITR: eXplor Chemical Information Teaching
A repository for exploring and sharing chemical information teaching resources. |
Analytical Abstracts
Analytical Abstracts which is also known as Analytical WebBase is a convenient current awareness and information retrieval service for analytical chemistry. While this database is not as inclusive as Chemical Abstracts and SciFinder, you can more often easily focus on the desired procedure or technique you are seeking. |
| Analytical Chemistry Springboard
A guide to numerous techniques in analytical chemistry. |
| ASDL Analytical Sciences Digital Library
A collection of peer reviewed web sites for the analytical sciences. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation. |
| Chemistry Hypermedia Project
A large collection of online tutorials, primarily in analytical chemistry. |
| Chromatography Book Series
Thirteen e-books on all aspects of chromatography, including column, liquid, gas, capillary, thin-layer, and preparative. |
| i-mass.com: mass spectrometry's web address
A comprehensive mass spectrometry information resource, featuring; classic articles, definitions, history, movies, Nobel Prizes , protocols , resources, techniques, troubleshooting, and tutorials. |
| separationsNOW.com
The free online resource for the separation science community |
Binding Database
A public, web-accessible database of measured binding affinities for biomolecules, genetically or chemically modified biomolecules, and synthetic compounds. The database currently contains data generated by isothermal titration calorimetry, enzyme inhibition, and receptor-ligand binding methods. Other techniques will be included in the future. |
| Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic
An online textbook that reorganized the topics into a less traditional order. |
| BioCyc
A collection of hundreds of databases of metabolic pathways and their genomes for humans and other organisms. |
| BioMedCentral: Biochemisry
BioMedCentral: Biochemistry provides a catalog of databases relevant to this field. You can browse the links, or search by name, description or other information. |
| BookShelf: Essentials of Glycobiology
Essentials of Glycobiology Varki, Ajit; Cummings, Richard; Esko, Jeffrey; Freeze, Hudson; Hart, Gerald; Marth, Jamey, editors. Plainview (NY): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ; c1999 |
| BookShelf: Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects
Biochemistry, Fifth Edition by Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co. ; c2002 You can view for free, sections of this popular textbook, by entering a search term. |
| BookShelf: Biochemistry
Biochemistry, Fifth Edition by Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co. ; c2002 You can view for free, sections of this popular textbook, by entering a search term. |
| BRENDA; The comprehensive enzyme information system
Nomenclature, isolation & purification, stability, reaction & specificity, structure, functional parameters, organism-related information, disease & references, application & engineering of enzymes. |
| BUBL: Biochemistry
BUBL Biochemistry provides an extensive, selected, evaluated, and annotated collection of resources on this subject, updated monthly. |
| ChemBank
A public informatics site that includes freely available data derived from hundreds of thousands of small molecules and hundreds of biomedically relevant assays. This data is intended to enable chemists to gain biological and medical insights. |
| CMS Molecular Biology Resource
A compendium of tools and resources for biochemistry and related fields. |
| Collaborative Drug Discovery
Collaborative Drug Discovery hosts public access data relevant to drug discovery from leading research groups around the world. Some of this data is searchable and accessible for free. |
| Enzyme Nomenclature Database
This version prepared by G.P. Moss, Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, in consultation with the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN). |
| Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
Contains detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in the human body. It is intended to be used for applications in metabolomics, clinical chemistry, biomarker discovery and general education. It has chemical data, clinical data, and molecular biology/biochemistry data. |
| IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
Aimed to better disseminate information on three-dimensional biopolymer structures with an emphasis on visualization and analysis, this library provides access to all structure entries deposited at the Protein Data Bank (PDB) or at the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB). |
| LipidBank
Data and literature information on more than 6000 unique natural lipids, including fatty acids, glycerolipids, sphingolipids, steroids, and various vitamins. |
| Medical Biochemistry Page
An encyclopedic textbook of biochemistry. |
| Metabolic Pathways of Biochemistry
Metabolic Pathways of Biochemistry is designed to graphically represent all major metabolic pathways, primarily those important to human biochemistry. Site designed and maintained by Karl Miller. You can browse the table of contents |
| Methods in Enzymology
Methods in Enzymology has been a laboratory standard for more than fifty years, with more than 400 volumes published since 1955. These volumes are not limited to just enzymology. They cover all aspects of biochemistry, and also include molecular biology and cell biology. |
| Pathway Interaction Database
The Pathway Interaction Database is a highly-structured, curated collection of information about known biomolecular interactions and key cellular processes assembled into signaling pathways. It is a collaborative project between the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Nature Publishi |
| PDBTM (Protein Data Bank of Transmembrane Proteins)
PDBTM database, selection from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) is maintained in the Institute of Enzymology by the Protein Structure Research Group. |
| PIR: Protein Information Resource
Provides a wide variety of resources mainly oriented to assist the propagation and standarization of protein annotation. PIR has many protein databases and analysis tools freely accessible to the scientific community, including the Protein Sequence Database (PSD), the first international database. It also has UniProt, a single worldwide database of protein sequence and function created by unifying the PIR-PSD, Swiss-Prot, and TrEMBL databases. |
| Protein Data Bank
A repository of 3-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules derived from x-ray crystallography and NMR experiments. To view structures you need: a java enabled web browser, a VRML browser, and the RasMol molecular display program. |
| Proteopedia
A three dimensional interactive encyclopedia of proteins, RNA, DNA and other macromolecules. Protopedia collects, organizes and disseminates structural and functional knowledge about these macromolecules, and their assemblies and interactions with small molecules. |
| Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) provides the scientific community with a single, centralized, authoritative resource for protein sequences and functional information. It is a central repository of protein sequence and function created by joining the information contained in Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, and PIR. |
See also: Patents & Trademarks Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. |
| Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is a definitive scholarly business database, providing a leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals. |
| Lexis-Nexis
LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; patents, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; |
| U.S. Census Bureau
Besides serving as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy, you can search for data on chemical elements and compounds. |
American Chemical Society: Committee on Chemical Safety
An extensive source of resources and links on all aspects of chemical safety. |
| Chemical Safety Information from Intergovernmental Organizations
Fact sheets and in-depth reports of hundreds of commonly used substances. |
| Safety Song Video
A catchy musical number about lab safety. |
Indiana Cheminformatics Education Portal
A repository of freely accessible cheminformatics educational materials. |
| Nucleic Acids Research Database Summary
Every year the online journal Nucleic Acids Research devotes its January issue (http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/archive/) to databases in cheminformatics and bioinformatics. Among the more than 1000 databases listed here, this page has a classified listing of databases devoted to nucleic acid and proteins sequences, structure of small molecules, proteomics, and metabolic and signaling pathways. |
Combichem Glossary
This online dictionary defines the terms in the new field of combinatorial chemistry. |
| Combinatorial Chemistry Review
An introduction to this new field of chemistry. This site contains explanations, articles, news, a glossary, and links to other sites. |
| Combinatorial Chemistry; an Online Journal
Features links to combinatorial chemistry papers accepted for publication in several Elsevier journals. It also has links to articles from other publications. |
AutoDock
A suite of automated docking tools, designed to predict how small molecules, such as substrates or drug candidates, bind to a receptor of known 3D structure. |
| QSAR World
A free online resource of datasets and information relevant to Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) modeling. |
| Thermo Chemical Properties Estimations
Calculate 22 physical properties for carbon compounds containing beteween 2 and 12 carbons as long as they are not aromatic or contain halogens. You may want to compare results here to the data in the Predicted Properties section of the substance's SciFinder Scholar record. |
| Virtual Material and Process Simulation Center - Molecular-Orbital & Properties
Calculate, molecular volume, surface, PM3 Heat of Formation, Flashing Point, CNDO/2,QEQ, dipole moment, charge |
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
A crystal structure database that includes every structure published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, and the European Journal of Mineralogy. Also, data from Physics and Chemistry of Minerals is currently being added. |
| Bilbao Crystallographic Server
Crystallographic programs and databases. |
| Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database
Contains crystal data and the crystallization conditions, which have been compiled from the literature. The current version includes 5247 crystal entries from macromolecules for which diffraction quality crystals have been obtained. These include proteins, protein:protein complexes, nucleic acid, nucleic acid:nucleic acid complexes, protein:nucleic acid complexes, and viruses |
| Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center
Some services of this repository of small molecule crystal structures, are free. |
| CCP14
The Collaborative Computational Project Number 14 for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction is a directory to the best and most commonly used crystallography programs. |
| Crystal Lattice Structures
A concise index of common crystal lattice structures. Contains 264 structures in 94 of the 230 space groups. |
| CrystalEye
Aggregates crystallography from the supplementary data to articles at publishers websites. |
| Crystallography Open Database
Has measurements for ~18,000 organic and inorganic substances. |
| Database of Zeolite Structures
Drawings and crystallographic data for all zeolite types, with relevant references. |
| eCrystals-South Hampton
An archive of complete crystal structure data for small molecules. |
| Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction
This 1962 book has been digitized and mounted on the web as a free site. |
| International Union of Crystallography
An international scientific union that promotes research, cooperation, standardization of methods, and publications in crystallography. It's resources include news, directories, and teaching resources. |
| Mineralogy Database
This database contains 4,442 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library. Mineral data for individual species are linked to mineral tables by crystallography, crystal structures, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Dana's New classification, Strunz classification, mineral specimen images, and alphabetical listings of mineral species. There also are extensive links to other external sources of mineral data and information. |
| Nucleic Acids Database
A repository of three-dimensional structural information about nucleic acids |
| PowBase: Powder Patterns Database
Powder diffraction patterns for over 160 compounds. |
| Reciprocal Net
A distributed database used by research crystallographers to store information about molecular structures. Much of the data is available to the general public. Funded by the National Science Foundation, there are now 18 participating crystallography laboratories online. |
| X-Ray Crystallography Subject Guide from the University of Wisconsin
Contains an introduction, list of repositories & databases, online learning, organizations, books & reference works, selected journals, and a glossary for x-ray crystallography. |
chem1 virtual textbook
This e-book has chapters on fundamentals and advanced topics in electrochemistry. |
| Electrochemistry Dictionary
Simple and brief definitions of over 800 words and phrases used often in electrochemistry. In some cases, a second paragraph provides further information. |
| Electrochemistry Encyclopedia
Contains popular-science style articles describing many aspects of electrochemistry. New articles are added at irregular intervals, and all articles are periodically updated as recent developments occur in the field. |
EnvironmentalChemistry.com
An introduction to environmental, chemistry that includes hazardous materials news, information & resources, in depth articles; and links to relevant databases. |
See also: Periodic Tables chem1 virtual textbook
This e-book has chapters on fundamentals and advanced topics in electrochemistry. |
| ChemGameTutor
A series of games on different subjects in general chemistry that are designed to help introductory chemistry students practice skills necessary for success in their classes in a fun and run format. Here students can refine their chemistry knowledge through play. |
| Chemistry Hypermedia Project
A large collection of online tutorials, primarily in analytical chemistry. |
| Common Chemistry
This database from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) a division of the American Chemical Society, contains the CAS Registry Number®, chemical names (both formal and common), molecular formulas, and structures or sequences for ~7800 chemicals of widespread general public interest, and all 118 elements of the Periodic Table. |
Federal R&D Project Summaries
Provides a portal to more than 750,000 Federal research projects, complete with full-text single-query searching across databases residing at different agencies. The public may use this tool to stay better informed as to how its investment in research and development is being utilized. |
| Foundation Center
Both this web site and their libraries are sources for obtaining information about private research grants. |
| Grants.gov
The place to find and apply for federal government grants. Today, Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs and provides access to approximately $400 billion in annual awards. |
Bad Chemistry Jokes and Stories
Poems, songs, molecules with silly or unusual names, and Periodic Tables of things outside of chemistry. |
| Chemistry Jokes
Some classic chemistry jokes. |
| Chemistry Quotes and Jokes
Quotations and jokes about chemistry and chemists Sections include academics, physical chemists, classes, tests, labs, the elements and toxic chemicals. |
| Off The Wall Chemistry
A blog where contributors point out the ligher side of chemistry. |
| Piled Higher & Deeper; a grad student comic strip
Hundreds of cartoons chronicling the life (or the lack thereof) in grad school, poking fun at grad students, research and procrastination. |
| Science Cartoons Plus - Chemistry Cartoons
Chemistry cartoons by Sidney Harris. |
| Science Jokes - Chemistry
Jokes are classified into nine areas; general, poetry, quotes, puns, in the lab, dictionary, chemists, elements, and water. |
Industries and trade groups organize to promote their interests through public advocacy and education programs. Since these organizations represent their member industries, they are heavily biased in favor of whichever industry they represent. ChemIndustry.com
Billed as the "leading comprehensive directory and search engine for chemical and related industry professionals," ChemIndustry.com provides a wealth of resources to anyone working in applied chemistry and chemical engineering. ChemIndustry.com offers a searchable and browseable database of web sites (with more than 45,000 industry-related entries); an employment database; a directory of consultants with biographies; and a chemical name database that retrieves synonyms, CAS number, che |
| ChemSpy.com
This service is a well organized chemistry portal especially for industrial information. |
| Congoo
A news and information portal for the chemical industry |
SyntheticPages
A freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry that publishes practical and reliable organic, organometallic and inorganic chemical synthesis, reactions and procedures deposited by synthetic chemists. Researchers also share pointers and common problems. |
| Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (VIPEr)
A repository of inorganic chemistry teaching materials and a user-friendly platform for social networking tools that facilitate virtual collaboration and community building among inorganic chemists. |
Calculators Online Reference Center
This site contains links to many types of conversions and calculators. |
| Dictionary of Units
This dictionary, from Cleave Books, provides an account of the principal units of measurement to be found in use around the world today, and the conversion factors often needed to change them into standard units of the SI system. It also has a printable two page pocket guide for the most common conversions. |
| How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measure
This resource defines and converts many common and less common units of measure in science, technology and everyday life. |
| OnlineConversion.com
Convert just about any measurement to anything else. The most popular conversions are: length, temperature, speed, volume, weight, cooking, area, fuel economy and currency. Advanced students will also find more specialized conversions of units in mathematics, physics and engineering. |
| Versatile Unit Converter
A handy tool that converts many scientific measurements. On this site you can convert units such as energy, length, volume, power, temperature, radioactivity, and magnetism from one system to others. |
ACS Nanotation
News, summaries, critical analysis, and commentaries in nanoscience from the American Chemical Society. |
| AZoNano - The A to Z of Nanotechnology
AZoNano is an online clearinghouse for nanotechnology information. Included are dates of conferences and exhibitions, general news and information, descriptions and applications of specific products (often with links to manufacturers and suppliers), and job listings, together with an open-access technical journal. |
| Foresight Nanotech Institute
The aim of the Foresight Nanotech Institute is to "ensure the beneficial implementation of nanotechnology" through educating the general public, scientific research, and public policy initiatives The Foresight web site includes nanotechnology news, articles on the history and applications of nanotechnology, the full text of many technical materials (articles, books, and conference proceedings), calendars of events and conferences, and links to other nanotechnology resources. |
| MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) Clearinghouse
Provides news, a calendar of events, discussions groups, employment listings, and links to other nanotechnology and MEMS web resources. |
| National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
National Nanotechnology Initiative is the U.S. federal project to promote pure and applied nanoscience research. with contributing efforts from the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Energy; the National Institute of Health; NASA; and the National Science Foundation) provides current research project descriptions, news, reports, external funding sources, and links to a variety of nanoscience resources on the Web. |
Basics of MRI
An electronic text book on magnetic resonance imaging. |
| Basics of NMR
A text book on nuclear magnetic resonance for chemists. |
| Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank
NMR data data for more than 3700 biomolecules. |
| FTNMR Free Induction Decay Archive
1H and 13C NMR free induction decay files of 94 small organic molecules. |
| Introduction to the Analysis of Spin-Spin Splitting in High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Spectra
This textbook by the renowned John D. Roberts is now available for free on the web. |
| mylims.org
Allows anybody to store and process NMR spectra on-line. By default all your spectra are only accessible to yourself but you may decide to share your spectra with a group of people or to anybody. |
| NMR Information Server
Archives, facilities, galleries, journals, meetings, organizations, job openings, software, vendors, who's who, in NMR. |
| NMR Knowledge Base
An ezine, news, education, and links on NMR. |
| nmrdb.org
A web-based approach that enables you to assign a chemical structure to the corresponding NMR spectrum by simply drawing lines between atoms and automatically characterized signals. |
| NMRShiftDB
NMR data on over 20,000 compounds. |
| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Applications to Organic Chemistry
This textbook by the renowned John D. Roberts is now available for free on the web. |
Binding Database
A public, web-accessible database of measured binding affinities for biomolecules, genetically or chemically modified biomolecules, and synthetic compounds. The database currently contains data generated by isothermal titration calorimetry, enzyme inhibition, and receptor-ligand binding methods. Other techniques will be included in the future. |
| ChemBank
A public informatics site that includes freely available data derived from hundreds of thousands of small molecules and hundreds of biomedically relevant assays. This data is intended to enable chemists to gain biological and medical insights. |
| Chemical Thesaurus Reaction Chemistry Database
This information system allows the user to jump from chemical to chemical via the associated interactions, reactions and processes. |
| ChemSynthesis
This database of over 40,000 compounds contains more than 45,000 synthesis references. |
| ChemTube3D
This site contains interactive 3D animations for some of the most important organic reactions covered during an undergraduate chemistry degree with supporting information on reactivity and spectroscopy. |
| Heterocycles Web Edition
Lists new natural products with a heterocyclic ring system, collected from current chemical literature, whose structure has been established. |
| Organic Chemistry
From Wikibooks; Open books for an open world, this ongoing and developing project has contributions from many authors on many aspects of organic chemistry. |
| Organic Chemistry Help e-Mediately
Provides additional resources for students enrolled in Organic Chemistry, such as notecards, tutorials, practice questions, and exams. |
| Organic Chemistry Portal
An overview of recent topics, interesting reactions, and information on the most important chemicals. It also has sections that have topics such as, name reactions, protecting groups, and an Organic Synthesis Search that features a graphical index of bond types to provide links to specific transformations, |
| Organic Chemistry Worldwide
This resource guide attempts to collect all useful organic chemistry web sites, including literature, labs, teaching, conferences, organizations, and job openings. An essential site for synthetic organic chemists. |
| Organic Compounds Database
This database of nearly 2500 compounds contains data on melting & boiling points, index of refraction, molecular weight, formula, and spectral peaks. You search it by entering whatever you know about a compound. |
| Organic Syntheses
This series started in 1921 and continuing to the present provides contains detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. |
| Organometallic HyperTextBook
An introduction to this field and a guide to many specific reactions. |
| Sigma-Aldrich Reaction Search
Allows you to specify the exact structure or substructure of a starting materials and products then search for matching reactions. Results contain graphical representations of the reactions and information about starting materials. Some of the results have links to Aldrich's product pages. |
| SyntheticPages
A freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry that publishes practical and reliable organic, organometallic and inorganic chemical synthesis, reactions and procedures deposited by synthetic chemists. Researchers also share pointers and common problems. |
| Virtual Textbook Organic Chemistry
This electronic textbook has materials that may be used in a formal course of organic chemistry. |
European Patent Office: Patent Search Database
A searchable database of European and World Wide patents. The following article in the open access journal Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship reviews this database: http://www.istl.org/06-summer/electronic3.html |
| freepatentsonline
A searchable database of the more recent U.S., European, and Japanese patents. |
| Google Patent Search
Search and view images of patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, from 1790 - present. Google Patent Search is complementary to the United States Patent Office database. This beta version is still under development. |
| Patent Analysis
Provides free access to the US patent databases, EU patent databases and the WO/PCT patent database. Free access to INPADOC and Japanese patents will soon be provided. |
| Patent Searching
A basic overview of patent searching with resources and tips. |
| Patents and Patent Searching
An article in the open access journal: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. |
| Patents and Patentability
A tutorial providing an overview of patents and patentability requirements. |
| Tips from the Experts - A Short Course on Patent Reference for Science and Technology Librarians
While this introduction to patent searching tools is primarily aimed at librarians, this open-access journal article gives anyone interested in patent information sources a foundation on which to build knowledge and skills in this area. |
| United States Patent and Trademark Office
A complete guide to patents, trademarks, and copyright. Clicking the Patents tab will enable you to search and view the full text of all U.S. patents and patent applications from 1976 to the present. For earlier years you can search and view selected parts of the patents. To view the full-text of patents with their images on this site, you must first download a plug-in. To view the full-text with images in PDF, once you have the patent number you can get the complete patent in PDF format at: http://pat2pdf.org |
| What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents
Produced by the American Chemical Society, this is a downloadable 21 page booklet introducing patents for chemists and chemistry students. |
| World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
This agency of the United Nations promotes the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among states and in collaboration with other international organizations. They have several free publications on many different aspects of the patenting process. |
American Elements
This commercial site has a free periodic table. Click on any element to see its properties, safety data, and applications. |
| Animated Periodic Table of the Elements
A graphical version of the periodic table. Moving your mouse over each element reveals data, some in graphical form, for that element. You can also easily see the various classes of the elements, such as which one are metals, non-metals, transition elements, etc. |
| Elements on Facebook
Each chemical element has its own Facebook page on this site from the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Education. Besides basic information about each element, anyone can contribute relevant content. |
| Periodic Table of Videos
Short videos about each of the elements from the University of Nottingham. |
| The Elements
Click any element to see hundreds of pictures, technical data, stories and facts. |
| WebElements
WebElements is a periodic table of the elements with their physical properties. |
| Wooden Periodic Table
A large collection of chemical elements and examples of their applications, common and uncommon. |
ChemSpider
A search engine that aggregates and indexes chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository. |
| ChemSynthesis
A database of more than 40,000 substances, containing syntheses, and physical properties such as melting point, boiling point and density |
| Data & Property Calculation Websites
From the Thermodynamics Research Laboratory of the University of Chicago, this site lists many data sites, and calculation and program download sites in nano, quantum and statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. |
| DETHERM
Thermophysical property data for thousands pure compounds and mixtures. Part of their data is available for free. |
| eMolecules
Formerly known as Chmoogle and Chemical Structure Lookup Service (CSLS), emolecules contains links to physical data for millions of organic and inorganic substances from over 70 public and private databases. |
| Finding Physical Properties of Chemicals
This journal article is a practical guide for scientists, engineers, and librarians. It describes and evaluates the various Internet resources that provide significant physical property information and are available on the Web for free. |
| Flavornet: olfactometry of natural products
A compilation of more than 700 odorants detectable by humans. |
| Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds
SDBS has mass spectra, NMR, ESR, IR, and Raman spectra for thousands of compounds. It is compiled by the National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research in Japan. |
| Landolt-Börnstein Substance/Property Index
Landolt-Börnstein is an important print resource available in the City College Science/Engineering Library, but it is difficult to use because it is poorly indexed. This site provides a partial index, covering substances and their physical properties. |
| MatWeb: Materials Property Data
A searchable database of material properties includes thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials. |
| NIST Chemistry WebBook
The WebBook produced by National Institute of Standards and Technology provides access to well-documented thermodynamic, spectral, and reaction data for thousands of compounds. |
| NIST Online Database List
This list from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a guide to many specialized databases, such as solubility, physical, thermodynamic data, mass spectra, and other specialized and advanced databases. |
| NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database
Access to the energies of many photoelectron and Auger-electron spectral lines from a critical evaluation of the published literature. This database contains over 22,000 line positions, chemical shifts, doublet splittings, and energy separations of photoelectron and Auger-electron lines. |
| Open Notebook Solubility Challenge
A database of non-aqueous solubility measurements. |
| Organic Compounds Database
This database of nearly 2500 compounds contains data on melting & boiling points, index of refraction, molecular weight, formula, and spectral peaks. You search it by entering whatever you know about a compound. |
| Physical Constants from NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reference on constants, units, and uncertainty. This site contains CODATA internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants. |
| PhysProp
The Physical Properties Database lists boiling points, melting points, solubility, partition coefficients, vapor pressure, pK's , Henry's law constants, and OH rate constants for more than 25,000 substances |
| Sigma Aldrich
Offers FT-NMR and FT-IR Raman spectra for many chemicals in their online catalog. After signing in, do a Product Search for the desired compound. |
| SOLV-DB: Solvents Database
Chemical & physical data, health & safety data, regulatory data, and environmental fate data for the commonly used solvents. |
| spectrsoscopyNOW
This online resource for the spectroscopy community is a guide to web sites covering infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, NMR, Raman, and mass spectroscopy. |
| ThermoDex
An index to over 120 printed handbooks and compilations of thermodynamic data for elements and compounds. Several of these handbooks are in the Science/Engineering Library. You enter a type of substance and the property or properties you desire, and you will receive a list of handbooks that might contain that data. |
| USGS Digital Spectral Library
UV to mid-infrared 0.2-150 micron reflectance spectra of over 1300 minerals, organic and volatile compounds, vegetation, and man-made materials. Also included are mid-infrared data and additional visible and near-infrared spectra. |
| WebElements
WebElements is a periodic table of the elements with their physical properties. |
Virtual Material and Process Simulation Center - Polymers
Simulate radical polymerization, calculate polymer properties, and monomer properties. |
Academic Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments in the United States
Alphabetical index and listings by states. |
| ACS Directory of Graduate Research
This directory is now free online. |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry Departments: Worldwide
Links to websites of chemistry and biochemistry departments offering Bachelor's degrees (or equivalent) or higher outside the United States. |
| College Navigator
This site from the U.S. Department of Education provides detailed data on over 7,000 colleges in the United States. Among the many search options are searching by major, and degree level. |
| GradSchools.com
Comprehensive directory of American graduate education schools and programs. |
ChemAxon
ChemAxon offers chemistry software applications, and cheminformatics support. Some of their products are freely available. |
| Chemistry Add-in for Word
The Chemistry Add-in for Word makes it easier to insert and modify chemical information, such as labels, formulas, and 2-D depictions, within Microsoft Office Word. Additionally, it enables the creation of inline "chemical zones," the rendering of print-ready visual depictions of chemical structures, and the ability to store and expose chemical information in a semantically rich manner. |
| KnowItAll Informatics System
Free applications, for students and faculty, for structure drawing, reports, NMR processing, IR and Raman spectral analysis and other useful tools. |
| labmeeting
A web service that enables researchers to collect, manage, and share scientific papers. You can upload all your PDFs to help you organize your work, and share and discuss these papers with others. |
| Packmol
Packing Optimization for Molecular Dynamics Simulations is free software for creating initial points for molecular dynamics simulations by packing molecules in defined regions of space. |
Toxicology (from the Greek words toxicos and logos) is the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms. SEE ALSO: -Community Health -Environmental & Occupational Health -Epidemiology Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
ATSDR is a federal public health agency that serves the public by providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances. This site has data on the best science, the latest research, and the most important information about toxic substances and how they affect our health. |
| Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB)
A unique and widely used international resource of the results of 6540 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests on 1547 chemicals. The CPDB provides easy access to the bioassay literature, with qualitative and quantitative analyses of both positive and negative experiments that have been published over the past 50 years in the general literature through 2001 and by the National Cancer Institute/National Toxicology Program through 2004. |
| Chemical Safety Information from Intergovernmental Organizations
Fact sheets and in-depth reports of hundreds of commonly used substances. |
| HPV Chemical Hazard Characterizations
The High Production Volume Information System (HPVIS) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has produced these evaluations of the hazard (toxicity) data submitted on selected chemicals. |
| MSDSonline
Where to find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet. |
| MSDSSEARCH
Locating Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet. |
| SOLV-DB: Solvents Database
Chemical & physical data, health & safety data, regulatory data, and environmental fate data for the commonly used solvents. |
| TOXNET
The National Library of Medicine family of toxicology databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. Use it to be used to locate toxicology data, literature references, and toxic release information on particular chemicals s well as to search to identify chemicals that cause specific effects. |
| ToxSeek
ToxSeek is a meta-search engine that enables simultaneous searching of many different information resources on environmental health and toxicology. |
Communication Skills for Chemists
This brief reference manual compiled by Professor P. D. Bailey, Sara Shinton and Ross Mackie of Heriot-Watt University provides guidance on how to communicate effectively and efficiently both in writing and orally. It offers advice about writing reports of various types (from lecture or lab notes, through to research reports), giving talks, preparing material with visual impact, getting hold of information, and dealing with colleagues in a variety of situations. |
| Introduction to Journal-Style Scientific Writing
A guide to the scientific writing style and format that addresses four major aspects of writing journal-style scientific papers: Fundamental style considerations; A suggested strategy for efficiently writing up research results; The nuts and bolts of format and content of each section of a paper ; and, Basic information regarding peer critiques of scientific writing. |
| Links to Internet Sources for Science Writing Aids
This web site has science writing manuals, style guides, software, and other tools for writing assistance. |
| Poster Presentations: Designing Effective Posters
This guide produced by Fred Stoss of the University of Buffalo provides resources to make designing effective poster presentations easier. |
| Publish not Perish
A tutorial from the libraries of the University of Colorado that focuses on publishing in scholarly journals. It includes modules on the role of scholarly publishing, the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper, developing a personal publication plan, different publishing models, types of articles, collaborative authoring, and the tools and resources a scholarly writer needs to have on hand |
| Publishing Your Research 101
This web-based video series from the American Chemical Society supports authors and reviewers in writing, submitting, reviewing, and editing reports of original scientific research intended for publication in peer-reviewed journals. |
| Quick Guide To Citing Using The ACS Style Guide
The American Chemical Society's ACS Style Guide, 3rd ed (City College Science/Engineering Library Reference QD8.5 .A25 2006) is the standard citation style for chemistry. This Quick Guide includes the most common formats from that publication. |
| Science Writing Aids
A guide to writing that also covers the publication process, and researching information in chemistry. |
| Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
These guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing are designed to help students communicate their technical work. To that end, these guidelines contain advice, models, and exercises for common writing and speaking assignments in engineering and science. |
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