Chemistry and related Information on
the Internet
NOTES:
- This does not aim to be a comprehensive list of
chemical information resources on the world wide web, but
a set of pointers to the many large Chemistry link collections
already available and direct links to a few sites of special
interest.
- See Databases page
for links to Oxford University database subscriptions
of interest to Chemists
- All sites and data are free of charge unless marked
CONTENTS
Introductory Guides & Training
Chemistry link collections
MAJOR Chemistry Resources
OTHER General Chemistry Resources
- Chemistry
Web Reviews: reviews, with added comments, of over
500 chemistry -related web sites: written by University
of Oxford undergraduate chemists
- Chemistry
Section of Open Directory Project: 1,884 links
- Chemical
Information on the Web - A Guide from the RSC
Library and Information Centre
- 2000 best Chemistry Sites
- University Chemistry Departments (worldwide), Chemistry
Journals and Societies (Cambridge University)
- Information
Retrieval in Chemistry - many links, grouped by
60 specialist subject areas
- CHEMINFO
- Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University,
by Gary Wiggins.
- Includes CHMINF-L,
the Chemical Information Sources Discussion List
- Chemistry
Index - Rolf Claessen's Link Collection
- Chemistry
web sites - compiled by Dana Roth, Caltech Library
- Academic Info
- Chemistry
Gateway; also other
sciences
- ChIN: International
Chemical
Information Network - Selected Chemical Resources
on Internet (Chinese)
- Chemistry
section of Yahoo!
- Ingenta
- Chemistry
Resources
- WWW Chemistry Guide - simple annotated list of links for chemists, incl. list of Chemistry Blogs
- Library of Congress - Selected Internet Resources - Chemistry
- Chemistry Databases on the Web - a Classified List
- Chemistry: Internet Resources (Univ Buffalo)
- SciVee - videos and podcasts to supplement traditional peer-reviewed articles
- Prized Science (ACS) - a videos series featuring the work and contributions of recipients who won ACS prizes, showing how the chemistry behind ACS’ awards transforms our lives.
- InChI (International Chemical Identifier) - InChI was developed in cooperation with IUPAC and NIST and is the newest way of describing chemical structures in text
- University Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments: Worldwide and in United States
Specialist Resources
Teaching/Undergraduate
Chemistry/Science Web Search Sites
- Scirus - searches
scientific information; indexes over 105 million science-related
web pages inlcuding US & UK academic and organisation
web sites; scans Postscript files as well as HTML and PDF
(Elsevier)
- About.com Chemistry
Search
- ChemIndustry.com
- Search4science;
includes a Chemistry
search category
- ChemSpy.com
- eMolecules (previoulsy Chmoogle) - an open-access chemistry structure/substructure search engine
- Windows Live Academic - search for peer reviewed journal articles contained in numerous journal publisher portals and on the web (now in beta; currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas)
- Google Scholar - search for keywords in journal articles, books, theses, academic publications, technical reports and university websites; more about Google Scholar; see OULS info on setting Google Scholar to display full text links for Oxford subscriptions
- CrossRef Search / Google - A group of 45 leading journal publishers are participating in a CrossRef Search Pilot: this allows a typical Google search but filters the result set to the scholarly research content from participating publishers, with the intent of reducing the noise produced by general web searches. Find the CrossRef Search / Google search box on participating publishers' web sites, eg: American Physical Society, Institute of Physics, International Union of Crystallography, Nature, OUP, PNAS, Springer and John Wiley & Sons
COMPOUND/STRUCTURE/PROPERTY
databases
- ChemSpider (RSC) - a chemistry search enginee which aggregates and indexes publicly available chemical structures and their associated information, incl. properties, into a single searchable repository
- PubChem - provides information on the biological activities of small molecules
- Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) - dictionary of molecular entities focused on 'small' chemical compounds which are either products of nature or synthetic products used to intervene in the processes of living organisms
- Chempedia - a free and continuously-updated chemical compound encyclopaedia; Chempedia combines text descriptions from Wikipedia with chemical structure information from PubChem. Includes Chempedia Lab - an online experimental chemistry resource.
- ChemBioFinder
- chemical structure database, searchable by chemical name,
molecular formula, molecular weight, CAS registry number,
and chemical structure. Property information no longer free. Also has National
Cancer Institute Database.
- Web Elements
- one of the most up-to-date and complete interactive periodic
tables on the web - click on any element to find comprehensive
data about it. Other Periodic Tables:
- ChemExper Chemical
Directory - an online database of fine chemicals,
contains 55000+ compounds together with their physical properties:
boiling & melting points, IR spectra, MSDS, supplier
information, 2D and 3D structures. Find a chemical by its
formula, name, CAS number, substructure or physical characteristics.
- ChemIDPlus
- a database of 350,000 chemicals with links to relevant
databases
- Materials Properties Locator Database - find out which reference books contain properties data (mechanical, physical, electrical, thermal, etc.) for particular types of materials
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- for thermodynamic and spectroscopic data
- NIST Chemical Kinetics
Database - a compilation of kinetics data on gas-phase
reactions
- NIST
Pysical Reference Data, incl. Elemental
Data Index
- IUPAC-NIST
Solubility Database - liquid-liquid systems plus
a limited number of multi-component (organic-water-salt)
systems
- ASU
Physical, Chemical and Other Property Data -
Index (by property) to selected printed and internet resources
that contain chemical, physical, thermodynamic, mechanical,
toxicological and safety data
- Properties Data for Chemicals & Materials - a guide to property data found in the main chemistry databases and references
- Finding Physical Properties of Chemicals on the web: A Practical Guide (PDF)
- Thermodex
- contains records for printed and web-based compilations
of thermochemical and thermophysical data; gives list of
handbooks that might contain required data for specified
compound types.
- SDBS
- Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds
- free access to almost 100,000 spectra: EI mass, 1H decoupled
13C NMR, 1H NMR, FT-IR, laser-Raman, and ESR. Produced by
National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research of
Tokyo, Japan.
- Sigma-Aldrich
catalogue provides FT-NMR and FT-IR Raman spectra
- SOLV-DB solvents
database (National Center for Manufacturing Sciences)
- physical properties and links to regulatory, environmental
and health & safety data
- Protein Data
Bank (PDB) - international repository for the processing
and distribution of 3-D macromolecular structure data primarily
determined experimentally by X-ray crystallography
and NMR. Also at RCSB.
- Entrez
(National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI) -
databases of nucleotide
sequences, protein
sequences, 3D
macromolecular structures, whole
genomes, and MEDLINE, via PubMed.
- Enzymes
- ACD/I-Lab:
(Advanced Chemistry Development Interactive Laboratory)
- service for NMR and physicochemical prediction
and systematic name generation
- some ACD calculated property values (no. hydrogen
donors/acceptors, no. rotatable bonds, molecular wt.,
logD, logP, pKa, and solubility in water) now available
via SciFinder
- Actelion Property Explorer - prediction of drug-relevant properties; also here
- Landolt-Börnstein
- can view contents but NOT
full text/numerical data
- Best
Chemistry Web Sites: Databases/Databanks of Chemical
Information
- TOXNET
(National Library of Medicine/PubMed): A cluster of databases
on toxicology, hazardous chemicals; includes Toxicology
Data, Toxicology Literature & Toxic Release Information.
Further
info.
- Chemical Registry
System (from US Environmental Protection Agencies,
EPA) provides links to toxicity information on more
than 70,000 chemicals
- Toxicology
Sources on the Web - a Free Pint article
- Knovel
Engineering and Scientific Online References:
interactive scientific handbooks and databases. The following titles are freely available to
academic users :
- International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology - originally published for the National Research Council in 7 volumes; contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances
- Knovel Critical Tables - tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 13,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have 385 solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have 500 compounds.
- Smithsonian Physical Tables - classic reference source comprises 901 tables of common physical and chemical data
- Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards
- Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography
- Knovel Unit Converter and Periodic Table of the Elements
- Search the content of all Knovel electronic reference books (including Chemical Properties Handbook, Chemistry of the Elements, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Dictionary of Substances and their Effects, and many others). Even if the required data is not available electronically, you can save time by finding out which table in which handbook has the required information.
- Chromatography
online reference books
- Platinum
Group Metals/PGM Database - collection of physical,
mechanical and chemical data for the platinum group metals
(platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium and ruthenium)
and their alloys
- ZINC
- free database of commercially-available compounds for
virtual screening
- NMRShiftDB - open access, open submission, open source NMR database
REACTION databases
- Organic Syntheses - needs ChemDraw
Plugin
- Heterocycles
Database: Natural products with heterocyclic ring
system whose structure has been determined or synthesis
accomplished since 1975
- Named
Organic Reactions Collection (compiled by Oxford
undergraduates; can only be viewed in Chemistry IT suite); see also Name-Reaction.com
- Chemical
Thesaurus - reaction chemistry database of fundamental chemistry
- Organic Reactions (Wiley) - can browse by Reaction Type and view reaction details and abstract, but we do not have full text access (RSL has print copy)
- Sigma-Aldrich Reaction Database - this new online tool enables you to find detailed literature procedures for a desired transformation by entering the starting material and product-of-interest. In addition, the procedures include a list of reagents needed as well as links to their respective product detail pages for easy ordering.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC databases
NB: See Databases
page for major chemistry databases available via Oxford
University subscriptions
JOURNAL PAPERS
- Synthesis
Reviews (Thieme) contains over 26,000 English language
review articles (from journals and books) of interest to
synthetic organic chemists, from 1970 to end-2009. Download
the whole database as a text file or an Endnote library
- scitopia.org - a federated search portal created through the collaboration of 21 leading science and technology societies, incl. AIP, APS, Electrochemical Society, IoP, IUCr, Optical Society of America and Royal Society; also includes some patents and US government reports.
- Open J-Gate: a database of journal articles from over 3000 open access journals, from 2001, with full text links to full papers.
- BEC Matters
(IOP): a database of IOP journal articles and PhD dissertations
on Bose-Einstein condensation and matter waves research;
with free news update facility
- OJOSE: Online JOurnal
Search Engine - powerful free scientific search
engine allows you to search different databases or the journals
of specific publishers
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
REPORTS
- GEIGER
COM RESEARCH Engine - searches a collection of science
and engineering technical reports from US government organisations
- Science.gov
- access to US government science & technology resources
incl. databases, images, publications, reports and data
- GrayLit Network
also searches technical reports from several different US
government agencies
- OAIster
- one-stop search for open archived theses, reports and
more
PATENTS
- For an introduction see:
- Free Patent Searching/Document Sites:
- European Patent
Office
- Espacenet
- patents of European Patent Organisation (EPO) members
states + abstracts of patents from many countries, some
back to the 19th century
- DEPATISnet/German
Patent Office - full text of all German Patents
from in 1877, also Patents from many other countries
- US Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO): Search
Patent Databases - full text US patents
- SurfIP
- access to multiple patent sources in one search: includes
European & UK Patent Offices, World Intellectual
Property Organisation (WIPO), and USPTO
- FreePatentsOnline
- PDFs of US Patents
- Patent
Fetcher: limited free downloads plus Pay-As-You-Go
service
- FreePatentsOnline
- Patent Lens - an independent, public-good global resource; can search and view full-text of more than 8 million patent documents from US, Europe, Australia and WIPO, including their status and counterparts in up to 60 countries
- Google Patents - indexes patents (about 7 million) and applications (about 1 million) from (USPTO). Features full text searching.
- Sites which sell Full-text Patents:
- British Library: Patents collection; patent holdings
- Chemical
Patent Searching - links to free patent searching
sites, commercial patent databases, patent classification
and country codes
- Citation
Bridge - free search utility lets you look up forward
and backward US Patent Citations; need to register
THESES
Most CITED Chemistry Journals/Articles/Scientists
- CAS Science
Spotlight shows the most highly Cited chemistry-related
research publications for 1999 -2002. An abstract, and
in most cases the full text, of papers/patents are provided
free of charge. Also listed are the most requested
and most intriguing journal articles.
- ISIHighlyCited.com
lists the world's most Cited Researchers in 21 subject
areas. It will grow to include 250 researchers in each category,
based on the total number of citations received by their
articles, as recorded in the ISI Citation Databases. Categories
include Chemistry,
Physics
and Biology
& Biochemistry.
- Fast Breaking
Papers (ISI) - those having the largest percentage
increase in citations in their respective fields from one
bimonthly update to the next: they represent recent scientific
contributions just beginning to attract the attention of
the scientific community.
- ScienceWatch (Thomson Reuters) - Rankings, hot papers, analyses, research fronts: helps identify the latest developments and research
TRANSLATIONS
- Index
Translationum database contains bibliographical
information on books translated and published in UNESCO's
Member States since 1979 and totalling some 1,300,000 translations
in all disciplines incl. sciences.
CHEMICAL SUPPLIERS
SAFETY
COLLABORATION TOOLS
- SciTopics (Elsevier): free expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community. It serves as an information and collaboration service for researchers
- 2collab (Elsevier): an online collaboration tool that enables researchers to share, connect and discuss research with their peers
- LinkedIn: a professional social networking site; see Linking Up With LinkedIn
- AuthorMapper (Springer): an online tool for visualizing scientific research, allowing document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps. Integrates content and mapping technology, and enables you to explore patterns in scientific research. Covers Springer Journals only.
- biomedexperts (BME) - literature-based social networking platform for the life-science research communit, bringing the researchers together and allowing them to expand their professional network
- AIP UniPHY - professional networking site for physical scientists: allows physicists and other scientists to directly connect with and explore their professional contacts and to identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations
Miscellaneous
Chemical sites
Mailing Lists/News Groups
Related
subjects
For Information on related subjects try
the following hubs/portals/link collections:
Miscellaneous REFERENCE sources
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