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Daureen Nesdill   (library subject specialist) | U of U  Chemistry Department | Joel Miller   (Department Representative)

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Chemical Abstracts and CA on CD Citrix resource
Covers the world's chemical literature from 1986 to 2000. See Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar for current.

Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar Citrix resource
Covers the world's chemical literature from 1986 to the present.

ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals
Searchable full text of 27 journals of the American Chemical Society Publications.

Beilstein Crossfire Citrix resource
Electronic edition of "Beilsteins Handbuch der organischen Chemie."

Cambridge Structual Database
Largest searchable database of experimentally determined crystal structures. Searching requires X Window interface.

CHEMINDEX
Convenient guide to information resources on over 130,000 chemicals. Each CHEMINDEX record contains identification information on a unique chemical substance, including chemical names and synonyms, the CAS registry number, and a list of the CCINFO databases containing information on that substance.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Since the first volume in 1913, the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has been revised annually except for a few wartime years and has grown steadily, in both size and diversity of information, to become the most widely used source of data for chemists, physicists, and professionals in related fields of science.

Properties of Organic Compounds Citrix resource
Provides a single source for physical property data and spectral data for approximately 27,000 organic compounds.

Science Citation Index 1980-present Citrix resource
Covers thousands of international science and technology journals in over 100 disciplines, though no field in depth. Uniquely valuable for ability to track who has subsequently cited a known paper. A maximum of 5 simultaneous users is allowed.

SciFinder Scholar Citrix resource
SciFinder is your link to the wealth of substance information and chemical literature in CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) databases. That includes over 16 million journal articles, patents and other documents and more than 24 million substance records in the CAS Chemical Registry database.

Toxline
Indexes the world literature on toxicology: chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pollutants. Citations to journal articles, conference papers, technical reports and theses. UU (Eccles mostly) owns some of the material indexed. Main audience: toxicologists. Coverage is 1992- .


 

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Advanced Chemistry Development 
http://www.acdlabs.com/ 
Commercial site; offers free editions of IUPAC naming & Chemsketch software
Chemistry Functions 
http://www.stanford.edu/~glassman/chem/index.htm
Sundry chemistry calculation aids - interactive periodic table, molar conversions, equation balancer. Page created by a Jon Glassman, no further information given about author.
Chemistry Plugins
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/plugins.html
Descriptions and links to a variety of software plugins useful in chemistry.
Classic Chemistry http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/ A collection of classic papers in chemistry, a dictionary of archaic chemical terms, and other historical resources. 
Classic Organic Reactions http://home.ici.net/~hfevans/reactions.htm  A dictionary, with references and structure diagrams, of several hundred named organic reactions. Provided by the ChemPen Software company; source not stated.
Infosurf Chemistry Page http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/chemistr.html Index of chemistry-related web resources, from the University of California at Santa Barbara Library.
Links for Chemists http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html  Extensive (>7500) index of chemistry-related websites, maintained by the University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry. 

Organic Synthesis

http://www.orgsyn.org

Access all 77 volumes of ORGANIC SYNTHESIS online. Note: Read information thoroughly. Requires free software download.

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Electronic Journals
Indexes and Databases in Science & Engineering
Locating Physical/Chemical Property Information
Material Safety Data Sheet Resources
Selected Resources in Chemistry

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Created on 8/20/00. Last updated on January 10, 2007