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Reference Resources:
- ACS Journals Fulltext access to ACS publications back to 1879
- Chemfinder Includes descriptions of chemicals, constants, uses, reactions; excellent section on further references; may require free registration
- Chemistry Central A peer-reviewed open access repository of Chemistry research, created by the same team that created BioMed Central.
- Chemistry Resources Worldwide
- eMolecules An open access chemical structure search engine (previously Chmoogle)
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Journal Citation Reports -- Find ISI Impact Factors for journals in your field
- Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide A variety of information provided relevant for synthetic organic chemists
- Organic Syntheses Organic Syntheses is a free database of synthesis procedures. It facilitates location of desired procedures through structural queries, text queries, combinations, and by browsing the Organic Syntheses Reaction Guide QD262 .O7
- Periodic Table (Macromedia shockwave player required) -- 3 interactive periodic tables available from the American Chemical Society
- PubChem -- An NIH open access database that provides substance information, compound structures and bioactivity data for small molecules
- Ullmanns Encyclopedia of the Industrial Chemistry
- World of Chemistry -- an open access online encyclopedia assembled by Eric Weisstein
Chemical Suppliers
- BuyersGuideChem
- Companies: Web services
- Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
- Sigma-Aldrich -- Chem Product Central
Spectral Resources
- SDBS -- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
- NIST Webbook Data collection of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; includes thermochemical data for over 7000 organic and small inorganic compounds; also IR and mass spectra data.
- Sadtler Spectra Series -- one of the largest accumulations of published chemical spectra. Available in green looseleaf binders near the Science Reference collection. Includes sets of infrared prism, infrared grating, NMR and ultraviolet spectra.
- Aldrich Library of Infrared Spectra
- Aldrich Library of NMR Spectra
- Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
Patent Resources
- What Every Chemists Should Know about Patents
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office -- Patent Search
- European Patent Office (esp@cenet)
- Google Patents (beta)
- FreePatentsOnline
- MIT Inventor's Handbook
Current events information:
- Chemistry.org Headlines
- Chemistry Is in the News
- nanotechweb.org Current information on nanotechnology, provided by the Institute of Physics
- CAS Science Spotlight
- ISI Highly Cited Find out who the top researchers in the field are by using this website. By using this website you can find out more about the researchers and link to citations of their work as well.
- Distillations Weekly podcast on the past, present, and future of chemistry, from the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Professional societies:
- American Chemical Society
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- American Institute of Physics (AIP), with access to job opportunity listings, PINET, AIP Gopher Server, AIP Listserver.
- American Physical Society (APS), with conference information, access to the APS' FTP archive, submission information.
Career Opportunities:
- Mastering Your Ph.D. -- Book by Patricia Gosling and Bart Noordam
- ChemJobs (ACS Chemical & Engineering News)
- Chemistry & Industry Jobs Database
- National Institutes Of Health (NIH) Job Opportunities
- ScienceCareers.org
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