Chemistry Search Engines and Gateways

Chemistry Societies

Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Royal Australian Chemical Institute webserver providing information on conferences, awards, publications, chemistry departments

American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society webserver providing information on ACS products and services. This site also provides access to supporting information for journals from 1993 + via their Publications Division

Royal Society of Chemistry
Information about the Royal Society of Chemistry, its membership, conferences and products. Provides access to RSC Library and Information Centre's catalogue of books and images and the RSC Publications Catalogue database. Information on RSC journals and table of contents access is included

Search Engines

Scirus
The search engine for science, focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches scholarly information on the internet. Connect via the library's databases page from off-campus to access full-text.

Chemistry and Chemical Industry Gateways

Analytical Sciences Digital Library
Collected peer-reviewed web-based material in the Analytical Sciences. An Open Source site.

Chemistry@ at YAHOO
This is a specific section under the YAHOO subject directory containing links to sites and section of specific interest to the study of Chemistry. Areas of interest include: Organic Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Polymers; Organisations; Periodic Table and Historical information

National Library of Medicine - Chemical Information
The ChemIDplus database (requires Chime plugin) and ChemIDplus Lite (requires no plugins)

TOXNET
A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas

WWW Chemistry Guide
A collection of chemistry web site links for chemists and researchers involved in organic, biochemical, computational, medicinal and/or other chemistry research

Chemical Industry Search Engine
Chemical Industry links to manufacturers, chemical prices, industry services, conference information and employment

ChemSpy.com
The Internet Navigator for the Chemical Industry

Caltech Chemistry Links
Valuable and extremely comprehensive web site - always kept up to date

Links for Chemists
A well organised site created by the University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry and lists useful links to chemical companies, organisations, departments, jobs and chemical information

Online Resource for the Spectroscopy Community
News and reviews, articles - a dedicated spectroscopy portal

Polymers and Liquid Crystals
This Web site contains an innovative textbook-based learning tool and a virtual laboratory on polymers and liquid crystals

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
This Web site provides a database of small-molecule organic and organometallic crystal structures

CS ChemFinder
Well constructed and organised site providing access to a wide range of information on compounds, including physical data, history and safety information

NIST Chemistry WebBoook
A gateway to the data collections of the National Institute of Standards and Technology - A great site to search for data on specific compounds..

WebElements Periodic Table

Materials Safety Data Sheets

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS@ at Yahoo)
A collection of Materials Safety Data sites

Patents

Library Tutorial - Patent Searching

Australian Patent Information

European Patent Office

United States Patent and Trade Mark Office

Preprint Servers

Chemistry, Math and Computer Science Preprint Archives

Chemical Physics Preprint Database

Journal Abbreviations

University of British Columbia Chemistry Journal Abbreviations

JAS : Journal Abbreviation Sources

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