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This guide contains selected chemistry resources freely available on the Internet. For more information on chemistry, visit the State University of New York at Buffalo Chemistry Department.

Books, Journals, Open Access

BookFinder.com - One of the best & largest meta-search site for new & used books.
CAS Source Index - current and discontinued scientific and technical serial titles worldwide including journals, online preprint servers, conference proceedings, patent document series, meeting publications, and monographs containing collections of papers. [Note: this online version is missing some information from the CD product available at the Capen Reference Area CD Workstation.]
Chemical Abstracts Core Journal List - Journals indexed cover-to-cover; includes standard ACS title abbreviations.
Directory of Open Access Journals (Lund Univ.) - Over 7,700 peer reviewed, freely available journals, the most comprehensive directory on the Web. Article level search also available.
Directory of Open Access Repositories -OpenDOAR (Univ. of Nottingham) - an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
East Asian Gateway Service Document Delivery (Univ. at Pittsburgh) - Free, fast delivery of Chinese documents/articles to any individual researchers for research and teaching purposes where the needed item is not in any U.S. library.
Google Books - Over 15,000,000 books and magazine issues, with material added daily.
HathiTrust - Over 8.7 million scanned items, all described by precise metadata. Full-text of copyrighted items (~73%) are generally inaccessible.
Index Translationum (UNESCO) - 1.3 million translated books
Journal-Ranking.com (Andrew Lim, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology) - Free interactive journal ranking service allowing users to choose ranking parameters. Alternative to ISI journal impact factors.
Landolt-Bornstein Substance / Property Index - Keyword searchable as well as molecular formula, element system, CAS Registry Numbers, chemical name, and zeolite indicies. UB has most of the older print volumes on the Silverman (Capen) Reference shelves (QC61.L33 & QC61.L332).
The Online Books Page (John Mark Ockerbloom, Univ. of Penna.) - A meta-search & directory of over 800,000 freely available online books.
Publish or Perish (Anne-Wil Harzing) - a downloadable, free program analyzing Google Scholar citations to an author's publications. Reports statistics such as ave. cites per paper and h-index & related metrics. Disclaimer: Google Scholar citation data is very noisy & includes non-peer reviewed citing documents. Citation variations likely inflate number of papers & citations.
RoMEO - Over 400 publisher copyright and self-archiving policies (SHERPA)
SciVee (Univ. of California, San Diego) - Allows scholars to post articles along with a video presentation. Sponsored by NSF & Public Library of Science.

Career Information

Chemical & Engineering News Chemjobs (ACS)
Naturejobs (Nature Magazine)
PhDs.org: Science, Math & Engineering Career Resources (Geoff Davis) - aims at Ph.D. candidate & job seekers. Includes school rankings at Find the Graduate School That's Right for You.
Science Careers (Science Magazine)
Woman-Related Sites in Science & Technology (Joan Korenman)

Compound/Reaction Databases

Chembank (Broad Institute) - Small molecules bioactive database
Chemical Structure Lookup Service (NCI CADD Group) - metasearch of over 27 million compounds in over 80 internet chemical databases
Chemical Thesaurus Reaction Chemistry Database (Meta-synthesis, Inc.) - Open access synthetic route information. Database can be downloaded
ChemDB - Very large public database of small molecules and related chemoinformatics resources
ChemFinder - A substructure-searchable small-molecule database
ChemIDplus (NLM Toxnet) - Structure searchable chemical dictionary
- Lite Version - Name and registry number searching only
- Advanced Version - Additional search features including substructure searching
ChemSpider Synthetic Pages - freely available, crowd-sourced database of synthetic chemistry based on procedures deposited by synthetic chemists.
eMolecules Search Engine - 9 million commercially available compounds searchable by structure, name, or CAS Registry Number
Generated Database of Chemical Space of Small Molecules (Jean-Louis Reymond, Univ. of Bern) - downloadable database of all molecules up to 11 atoms (26.4 million compounds) under chemical stability & synthetic feasibility constraints.
Landolt-Bornstein Substance / Property Index - Keyword searchable as well as molecular formula, element system, CAS Registry Numbers, chemical name, and zeolite indicies. UB has most of the older print volumes on the Silverman (Capen) Reference shelves (QC61.L33 & QC61.L332).
NCI-3D - 2-D & 3-D structure database
NIST Chemistry WebBook - Most extensive physical property/spectra site on free Web
PubChem (NLM) - Chemical compound and bioassay public database
Reciprocal Net (NSDL) - Database of 3-D molecular structures compiled by crystallographers
ZINC (Univ. of California, San Francisco) - Free database of over 4.6 million commercially available compound designed virtual screening. Entire database is downloadable.

Conferences and Meetings

ACS Meeting Locator - Not limited to ACS sponsored meetings.
Conferences & Events (Chemistry) (Maintained by RSC)
NatureEvents (Nature Magazine)
Science Meetings and Events (Science Magazine)

Dictionaries, Periodic Tables, & Aids

Abbreviations, acronyms, trivial and trade names (Chemistry Biology Pharmacy Information Center) - especially good for European and obscure abbreviations.
Acronyms Database (Indiana University)
Acronyms and Abbreviations (Wiley Interscience)
ACS Style Guide: Chapter 14: References - details how to cite references for ACS publications.
ACS Style Guide (Quick Guide) (Williams College)
CAS Standard Abbreviations and Acronyms
Dynamic Periodic Table - visualizes the properties of elements with sliders to specify property ranges.
IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology - Free, online version of the authoritative, classic IUPAC Gold Book
Periodic Table of Comic Books (Holler & Selegue, Univ. of Kentucky)
Periodic Table of Elements (Theodore Gray) - Has many pictures, stories, facts, and comparative visualization (scatter plots, color coding, etc.). My favorite periodic table.
Periodic Table of Videos (Martyn Poliakoff, Univ. of Nottingham) - Each element has 3-5 minute video combining informal lecture and lab demonstrations.
Symbols.com - Over 2,500 Western signs and ideograms with a unique graphic description search, e.g. symmetric vs. non-symmetrical
Visual Elements (RSC) - Graphical interpretation of elements
WebElements (Univ. of Sheffield)

Educational Materials & Web Courses

ACS Chemistry Education Resources - from elementary school graduate education
The ChemCollective (Carnegie Mellon/NSDL) - Virtual labs and scenario-based learning
Chemistry Textbooks in Print Index (Journal of Chemical Education)
Chemical Information Instructional Materials (part of Chemical Information Sources Wikibooks, formerly at Indiana Univ.) - See also XCITR.
How Products Are Made (Advameg) - Scores of detailed descriptions from accordions to zirconium. Reliability of information difficult to verify.
Indiana Cheminformatics Education Portal (ICEP) (Indiana University) - repository of freely accessible cheminformatics educational materials maintained by David Wild.
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Learning Center- more than 6,300 different resources, of which over 1,900 are free. Searchable by grade level and type of resource (lesson plans, SciPacks, podcasts, etc.) Includes a browsable, comprehensive, full-text collection of state learning standards.
Principles of Chemical Science (MIT OpenCourseWare) - i ncludes video lectures, lecture notes, and exams.
Science Education Games & Puzzles (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
Science360 (NSF) - Gathers the latest science videos provided by scientists, universities, research centers, NSF, and others. Exceptional navigation features. Focuses on cutting-edge discoveries and big science stories of the day.
SciTalks: Smart people on cool topics (Lee Vodra) - Excellent science videos, many by prominent researchers. Caution: Videos are self posted. Copyright & accuracy uncertain.
What's That Stuff (ACS) - Chemical composition of everyday items like Silly Putty and cheese whiz
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students (Penn State Univ.) - a particularly useful and comprehensive guide to good scientific writing.
XCITR - eXplore Chemical Information Teaching Resources - international repository for sharing chemical information teaching resources. Designed for librarians, teachers, and professors. A successor to Indiana University's Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials. See also Chemical Information Instructional Materials Wikibook.

General Portals and Directories

About.com Chemistry Directory
ACS Directory of Graduate Education - Each edition since 1999
Blue Obelisk - an innovative online community of chemists, programmers, informaticians based on a wiki and committed to open data and open source.
Chemie.de Information Service - Commercial portal & search engine
Chemical Industry Directory (ChemIndustry.com) - Suppliers, Equipment, Services, Software
Chemical Information Sources (CHEMINFO) (Wikibooks, formerly at Indiana University)
ChemSpider (RSC) - a premier chemistry search engine and much more built around publicly available structures. It searches vast Internet compound collection, patents (from SureChem), and open access journal articles by keyword, element, substructure, molecular formula, and properties.
CORE - COnnecting REpositories ( Knowledge Media institute, The Open University) - millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.
Directory of Open Access Journals - Article Search (Lund Univ.) - Use the lower search box to access nearly 1 million OA articles in over 7,700 journals.
DOE Data Explorer - Master repository of scientific research data for U.S. Dept. of Energy sponsored research
DTIC MultiSearch (DOD) - a federated search engine of over 400 databases, international organization resources, and patents.
Europeana - Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.
General Chemistry Online (Fred Senese) - Extensive helps for students
National Science Digital Library (NSDL) - Funded by major NSF grant
OAIster (OCLC) - Digital, open access/archive resource directory
NIST Data Gateway - Access to all databases available from NIST's Standard Reference Data (SRD) collections.
Science.gov - "USA.gov for Science" gateway
Science Accelerator (DOE) - a federated search engine that searches 10 key Department of Energy resources. Includes DOE Information Bridge & DOE Data Exlorer.
Scientific Commons (Univ. of St .Gallen) - Over 19 million open access articles and other documents
Scirus (Elsevier) - One of largest and best search engines for scientific information
Virtual Chemistry Center - Martindale's Reference Desk
WorldWideScience.org - Open access portal & federated search engine covering over 400 million pages from 65 countries. Papers can be translated into nine different languages.
WWW Virtual Library - Chemistry (Univ. of Liverpool)

History of Chemistry

Chemical Heritage Foundation - History of chemistry with online exhibits
Chemsoc Timeline (RSC) - Exploration of key history of science events, emphasis on chemistry
Citation Classics: The human side of scientific papers (Eugene Garfield)
Museum of the History of Science Image Library (Oxford Univ.) - Over 8,500 images of scientific instruments, manuscripts, portraits, historic photographs, & engravings
Sciencetimeline.net
Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry (Le Moyne Univ.)
Wikipedia Timeline of Chemistry

Software

Analytical Chemistry

Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry

Gmelin Handbook - How to search print - Available main floor Silverman Library Reference Collection at the University at Buffalo
The PGM Database - platinum group metals and their alloys (Johnson Matthey)

Material/Polymer Chemistry

The A to Z of Materials (Azom) - Searchable database by keyword, application, and property values
The Plastics Web (IDES) - Includes pricing, industry directories, data sheets and property information. Some content requires a paid subscription
Polymer Tradename Index (MatWeb)
SpecialChem Materials Databases - Separate databases cover cosmetics, coatings & inks, adhesives & sealants, polymer additives & colors, bonding & fastening, and plastics & elastomers

Medicinal Chemistry/Toxicology

AIDSInfo Drug Database (NLM)
BindingDB (Univ. of Maryland) -30,000 measured affinities to proteins for over 15,000 small molecule ligands
Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (Univ. of Minnesota) - Contains 1200 compounds, 1300 reactions, 500 microorganism entries, and 800 enzymes. .
BioCyc Database - Pathway/Genome Databases
BRENDA Enzyme Database (Cologne Univ.) - Free to educational institutions
Chemical & Engineering News Safety Letters (ACS) - Hazardous reactions reported to C&E News
Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) [EMBL-EBI] - Compiles information on small molecules from many Internet resources including IntEnz, KEGG Compound, PDBeChem, and ChEMBL.
DAIN Metadatabase of Internet Resources for Environmental Chemicals (Univ. of Kassel)
DrugBank (Genome Canada/Univ. of Alberta) - Combines detailed data on over 4,300 drugs with comprehensive drug target information
Human Metabolome Project (Genome Alberta) - Information on over 2,500 molecules produced by metabolic reactions in the body.
The Merck Manuals - Medical and drug information
Protein Data Bank (Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics)
TOXNET (NLM) - Over a dozen top notch toxicology databases
ToxSeek (NLM) - meta-search engine that enables simultaneous searching of many Internet toxicology resources including TOXNET, NLM, NIH, WHO, & other U.S. & international governmental agencies.

Organic Chemistry

Beilstein Handbook - How to search print - Available 3rd floor Science & Engineering Book Collection, Silverman Library at the University at Buffalo
Organic Chemistry Portal -includes NMR shift predictions (Reto Muller)
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide - educational, directory, search engine metasite
Organic Syntheses Monograph Series - Wiley (requires free ChemDraw plug-in)

Physical Chemistry

Atomic Reference Data for Electronic Structure Calculations (NIST)
Fundamental Physical Constants (NIST)
Isotopes Project Nuclear Structure & Decay (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)