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Chemistry

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Sites with Links
Calculators and Conversions
Databases

Element and Compound Profiles
Reference Works and Texts
E-Journals

Sites with Links

ChemDex Directory of Chemistry on the Internet - (University of Sheffield)
Chemical Industry Home Page - Information about & links to the chemical industry & chemical companies
Cheminfo - Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University; class notes, user guides and links
General Chemistry Online - A common compound library, articles, chemistry FAQs, links, etc.
Red Latinoamericana de Química [Spanish Version] or mirror siteLatinamerican Chemistry Net [English Homepage] - Bilingual (Spanish & Portuguese with English option for homepage) Contains information and links to sites about chemistry in Latin America, including: chemistry institutions, chemists, journals & other literature, tutorials, software, employment opportunities, Latin culture and international scholarships
Links for Chemists - (University of Liverpool) - the chemistry section of The WWW Virtual Library
Martindale's The "Virtual" ~ Chemistry Center - (Jim Martindale)
NIST Virtual Library - (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - Research by Subject - Chemistry
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide - (Georgia State University Chemistry Department)
Safety Links - Material Safety Data Sheets
SciCentral: Gateway to the best scientific research news sources: Physics & Chemistry - search or browse for articles in these fields.
Spectroscopy Portal - spectroscopyNOW.com - (Wiley) - a portal providing free access to online spectroscopy resources. Covers the following techniques: Atomic, Chemometrics, Chemometrics, Infrared, Mass Spectrometry, MRI, NMR, Proteomics, Raman, Ultraviolet and X-Ray.
Virtual Library: Science: Chemistry: Specialised Chemistry Links Sites

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Calculators and Conversions

A Dictionary of Units - (Frank Tapson) - This provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the SI.
Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center: Chemistry - (Jim Martindale)
Metric and English Conversion Utility - (Zoetic HomeSchool and Poseidon Software & Invention) - Weight, volume and length convertors

Databases

Chemical Backgrounders - (National Safety Council) - information for over 80 chemicals
ToxNet - National Library of Medicine Toxicology Network - This website provides free access to the following databases, which may be searched individually or separately:
- CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System)
- ChemIDplus Lite - A chemical dictionary including over 366,500 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest, including numerous chemical synonyms, structures, regulatory list information, and links to other chemical databases
- DART/ETIC (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center)
- GENE-TOX - a peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data from the EPA)
- HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank)
- IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System)
- ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk)
- TOXLINE - Extensive array of references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals
- TRI (Toxics Release Inventory)
Envirofacts Master Chemical Integrator (EMCI) - (U.S.E.P.A.) - provides information on hazardous chemicals
Macrogalleria - A Cyberwonderland of Polymer Fun - Consists of five levels of information on polymers, or macromolecules, ranging from general to technical. Also available in these languages:
radiocarbon WEB-info - (Tom Higham, Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand ) - Provides information concerning the radiocarbon dating method

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Element and Compound Profiles

Atomic Weights and Isotopic Compositions of Elements - Atomic weights for elements 1 through 111 and isotopic compositions or abundances as appropriate - (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
Chemcyclopedia - information about vendors, products, and services for the chemical and allied industries
The Comic Book Period table of the Elements - Click on an element to see images of comic book pages involving that element.
CS ChemFinder - Search for a chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula or molecular weight - (CambridgeSoft Corp.)
Database: Patent Grant and Patent Application Full-Text and Full-Page Images - (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
ExPASy Mollecular Biology Server - Protein structure, illustrations (University of Geneva)
Molecule of the Month - Each month a new molecule link is added to this list. Each link is to an educational or commercial web site, where useful and entertaining information can be found about a particularly interesting molecule. Online since 1/1996.
Periodic table of the Elements - Bilingual (German & English) scholar edition of WebElements. Contains information about the periodic table for students. Includes pictures and graphics showing element structures and periodic properties.
Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) - Protein structure & taxonomy - (Cambridge University School of Biological Sciences)
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Base Peak - The worlds leading Mass Spectrometry resource. Mass spectrometry resources, including research groups, manufacturers, software and more. Part of spectroscopyNOW - (Wiley)

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Reference Works and Texts

Chemicool Periodic table - (David Hsu)
Chemistry Hypermedia Project - Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry tutorials - (Virginia Tech)
Organic Compounds Database - (Harold M. Bell at Virginia Tech, hosted by Colby College)
Organometalic HyperTextBook - This reference resource is designed for beginners in and as a review for Organometallic Chemistry. Includes chemical diagrams - (Rob Toreki)
TOXFAQ - A series of summaries about hazardous substances - (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)

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E-Journals

American Chemical Society (ACS) - Online journals
Click on ACS link above, then on Journals & Magazines to view the full list of periodicals. Check the Journal Holdings: Electronic & Print list to verify which titles we subscribe to. Select titles are linked below:
- Accounts of Chemical Research 1 (1968) - present
- Analytical Chemistry 19 (1947) - present
- Chemical & Engineering News 76 no.32 (1998) - present
- Chemical Innovation 30 no. 9 (2000) - 31 no. 12 (2001) (publication ceased)
  - continues CHEMTECH 28 no. 2 (1998) - 30 no. 8 (1999)
- Chemical Research in Toxicology 1 (1988) - present
- Chemical Reviews 1 (1924) - present
- Chemistry of Materials 1 (1989) - present
Biochemical Journal - full text and graphics in both HTML and PDF formats for all articles from Volume 313 (1996) onwards as well as HTML abstracts from Volume 153 (1976) onwards.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - This directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The full text of articles are freely available. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently over 1000 journals in the directory.
Nature Materials
Project Muse - (Johns Hopkins University)
- Perspectives on Science quarterly. 6 (1998) - 1 year ago
Wiley Interscience Journals
Select titles are linked below:
- International Journal of Chemical Kinetics monthly. 28 (1996) - present
- Journal of Computational Chemistry 16 times a year. 18 (1997) - present

Last Revised: cje - 8/30/2007