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Beginner's Guide to Chemical Abstracts
http://library.uwaterloo.ca/howto/howto12.html
Introduces users to the standard guide to chemical literature and shows how to do simple searches. A commercial site.

WWW Virtual Library—Chemistry
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html
Links to universities and organizations as well as to chemistry resources and other VLs. Especially useful are the links to gopher and FTP servers in chemistry.

Chemcenter
http://www.ChemCenter.org/
From the American Chemical Society; includes links to education, industry, publications, and searchable databases.

CIS-IU
http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/cisindex.html
Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University is a guide to Internet and Web resources in chemistry; offers both alphabetical and keyword searches in a useful format.

Molecular Visualization Tools and Sites
http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/mvts.html
Links to all the major Chime and RasMol sites as well as to various other free and commercial visualization sites.

The Analytical Chemistry Springboard
http://www.anachem.umu.se/jumpstation.htm
Presents links to all the analytical chemistry resources on the Net, arranged by analytical techniques. Also includes lists of other Net and Web resources.

Manual and Computer-Aided Literature Searching
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/chem/ch361a/lect.htm
A long, detailed explanation of how to use the standard sources in chemical literature, by Dr. J. J. Gosper. Includes a section on Beilstein and full explication of CA and BIDS. Worth downloading.

ACSWeb
http://www.acs.org/
Provides searches of American Chemical Society resources as well as information on news, events, and publications.

Biochemnet
http://schmidel.com/bionet.htm
Contains a directory and links to a variety of biology and chemistry sources, most of them oriented toward high school and college chemistry and education.