Disciplines & Professions: Chemistry

Web Sites

About.com's Chemistry Directory
http://chemistry.about.com/

Offers extensive topical index divided into a wide range of subject headings, in addition to the latest news releases in chemistry. Offers links to pages containing a broad range of chemistry-related topics.

Academic Info's Chemistry Gateway
http://academicinfo.net/chem.html

This site is geared towards college students and recent college graduates, offering annotated links to topical sites.

Abstracts on ChemWeb
http://www.chemweb.com/abstracts/

Provides more than 1 million abstracts from journals in organic chemistry and related fields.

ChemDex
http://www.chemdex.org/

Includes links to hundreds of chemistry departments at institutions around the world. Also has a list of topical links, as well as onsite connections to databases and journals in the field.

Chemie.DE
http://www.chemie.de/

This site offers information on chemistry departments, conferences, recent news, software available online, and jobs. Visitors may conduct a search for full-text documents in the hierarchical index and a metasearch for articles and abstracts in the field.

Chemistry: Search Engine Guide's Chemistry Links
http://www.searchengineguide.com/pages/Science/Chemistry/

Annotated links to topical sites, most of which are analytical chemistry resources.

Links for Chemists
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html

Index of over 8,000 chemistry resources on the Web. Includes a topical listing of resources, as well as links to academic departments, companies and industries, literature and publication, and organizations.

Open Directory's Chemistry Directory
http://dmoz.org/Science/Chemistry/

Listing of links to chemistry-related resources and sites. Directory offered in 11 other languages.

WWW Virtual Library of Chemistry
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html

Index of World Wide Web sources, educational programs, organizations, publications and software pertaining to chemistry. Maintained by a University of California, Los Angeles professor of Chemistry.

Yahoo!'s Chemistry Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/science/chemistry/

Provides an annotated list of the most popular chemistry sites, as well as an index consisting of a wide variety of related topics within chemistry to browse.

Databases

Analytical Abstracts (Royal Society of Chemistry, available through SilverPlatter)

Abstracts more than 240 major analytical journals from 1980 to the present. 280,000+ records written specifically for analytical chemists.

Chemical Abstracts Student Edition (Chemical Abstracts Service, available through OCLC FirstSearch)

Indexes over 250 periodicals and more than 200,000 dissertations. 2.7 million records from 1967 to the present. This database is updated weekly.

Print Resources

Bottle, R. T., and J. F. B. Rowland, eds. Information Sources in Chemistry. 4th ed. London: Bowker-Saur, 1993.

Organizes listings and descriptions of sources by type of source and subdiscipline. Contains chapters for general chemistry sources, and more specific chapters on pure chemistry and industrial chemistry.

Chemical Abstracts. Columbus, OH: American Chemical Society, 1996.

Provides abstracts of articles and publications concerning chemistry and chemical engineering. Entries are organized by topic. Includes keyword, author, and patent indices.

The Chemical Formulary. New York: Chemical Publishing, 1933-.

This source is an extensive list of up-to-date formulas for creating a wide range of compounds. Entries are organized by type of compound. Provides an overview to aid the general reader.

Chemical Titles. Columbus, OH: American Chemical Society, 1989-.

Indexes more than 800 journals in the field. Entries are organized by keyword, and also in bibliographic form by topic. Also includes an author index.

Hurt, C. D. Information Sources in Science and Technology. 3rd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.

Covers all disciplines within science, mathematics, and engineering. Sources organized by discipline, then by type of reference work. Includes an author/title index.

Lewis, Richard J. Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 13th ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997.

Provides descriptions and definitions of chemicals, processes, equipment, chemical entities and terminology, and products used in the chemical industries. Organized alphabetically.

Lagowski, Joseph J., ed. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1997.

Alphabetical list of articles on a full range of chemistry issues and topics. Each article includes a bibliography. Final volume includes a cumulative index.

Maizell, Robert E. How to Find Chemical Information. 3rd ed. New York: Wiley, 1998.

An extensive list of chemistry sources. Entries are organized by types of source. Explanation includes discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of a source. An index is provided.

Young, Robyn V., ed. World of Chemistry. Detroit: Gale, 2000.

1,000+ entries providing information on general terms, concepts and applications of chemistry. Also includes biographical entries for notable figures. Organized alphabetically. Provides a general index.