Chemistry

The URL for this page is http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/guides/sciences/chemistry.html

Style and General Guides

To access databases with a location of "ALADIN", click on the title of the database. To see a list of databases available through ALADIN, go to the ALADIN Home Page; and under Databases by Title on the right side of the screen, choose the appropriate alphabetical grouping.

ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors 2nd Edition, Janet S. Dodd, ed. 1997.

Location: REF QD 8.5.A25 1997

In addition to information on how to prepare publications and oral presentations, the components of a scientific paper, the peer review process, and copyright information, and an appendix covers the requirements for submission to ACS publications as well as a concise discussion of the literature of Chemistry.

How to Find Chemical Information: A Guide for Practicing Chemists, Educators and Students 3rd Edition, Robert E. Maizell. 1998.

Location: REF QD 8.5. M34 1998

Looks at strategies and resources available to chemists for finding information efficiently. Coverage includes government information centers, Internet and other electronic sources, databases, journal literature and products from Chemical Abstracts Service.

Information Sources in Chemistry 4th Edition, R.T. Bottle and J.F.B. Rowland, eds. 1993.

Location: REF QD 8.5.I47 1992

Evaluates primary and secondary sources of chemical information in print and early electronic formats. Subjects covered include inorganic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, patents, health and safety and agrochemicals.

Dictionaries

Comprehensive Dictionary of Physical Chemistry, L. Ulicky and T.J. Kemp, eds. 1992

Location: REF QD 5.C4555 1992

Concise Dictionary of Chemistry, Oxford University Press, 1990.

Location: REF QD5.C456 1990

Dictionary of Chemical Names and Synonyms, Philip H. Howard, 1992

Location: REF QD5.H68 1992

Dictionary of Chemistry, John Daintith, ed. 2000

Location: REF QD5.D4985 2000

Dictionary of Colloid and Interface Science, Laurier L. Schramm, 2001.

Location: REF QD549.S37 2001

Dictionary of Electrochemistry, D.B. Hibbert and A.M. James, 2nd edition, 1984

Location: REF QD 552.5.H53 1984

Dictionary of Organic Compounds, 5th Ed. Chapman and Hall. 1982 with 1998 supplements.

Location: REF QD246 D5 1982

Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 14th Edition ,Richard J Lewis, Sr., eds., 2001

Location: REF QD 5.C5 2001

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Chemistry, Sybil P. Parker, ed. 1997

Location: REF QD5.M357 1997

ChemIDplus

Location: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Chem/ChemMain.html

An enormous file of chemical compounds: records include CAS registry numbers, molecular formula, generic names, synonyms, and MeSH headings.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Applications, Theory, and Instrumentation, R.A. Meyers, ed. 2000

Location: REF QD71.5.E52 2000

Fifteen-volume encyclopedia written for the professional covering all aspects from theory and instrumentation through applications and techniques; described in the laboratory, in the field, or by remote sensing with well cited references.

Kirk-Othmer Concise Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed. Jacqueline Kroschowitz, ed. 1999.

Location: REF TP9.K54 1999

Multi-volume encyclopedia covering all aspects of applied chemistry. Articles are generally very readable and accessible to the non-specialist.

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Joseph J. Lagowski, ed. 1997

Location: REF QD4.M33 1997

Excellent source for introductory information on chemistry. Four volume set containing signed articles with bibliographies.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th ed., 20 volumes, 2002.

Location: REF Q121.M3 2002

This 20 volume set contains concise, readable articles covering all disciplines in science.

Biographies

A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine, Francis Leroy, ed. 2003

Location: REF Q141.C252 2003

Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present, 5 volumes. ed. Brigham Narins, 2001

Location: REF Q141.N728 2001

Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, Ray Porter and Marilyn Ogilvie. 2000

Location: REF Q141.B528 2000

Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Chemists, David Abbot, 1984

Location: QD 21 B48 1984

Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam H. Rafailovich, eds.

Location: REF QD21.W62 1993

FECS Millennium Project

Location: http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/enc/FECS/100chemists.htm

Sponsored by the Federation of European Chemical Societies, this is a collection of 100 Distinguished European Chemists that transformed science from the 18th century to present.

Nobel Prizes in Chemistry Winners 2003-1901

Location: http://www.almaz.com/nobel/Chemistry.html

Lists the names of the Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry (with links to other subjects), with short biographical information on the winners.

Handbooks

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Various editions 84th Ed. 2004

Location: ALADIN (also available in REF QD65.H3; latest 2 editions in reference; earlier editions in stacks).

A ready reference book of chemical and physical data.

Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds, J.E. Macintyre, ed. 1992

Location: REF QD148.D53 1992

This 5 volume set presents information on more than 42,000 inorganic compounds: organized according to empirical name, structural type, and CAS Registry number. Provides structures, physical data, and selected literature references.

Dictionary of Organic Compounds, 5th Ed. Chapman and Hall, Pub. 1982.

Location: REF QD 246.D5 1982 including 1st Supplement 1997

This 7 volume set, plus the supplement, provides structures, physical data, selected literary references, and derivative information.

JANAF Thermochemical Tables 3rd Ed. M.W. Chase, ed. 1986.

Location: REF QD 511.8.J36 1986

Put out by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards and the Journal of physical and Chemical Reference Data.

Landolt-Bornstein: Units and Fundamental Constants in Physics and Chemistry. Ed.J Bortfeldt. 1991.

Location: REF QC61.L3322 1991

2 volume set in English with preface in English and German. Part of series: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology.

Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 15th ed. J.A. Dean, ed. 1999

Location: REF QD65.L362

Facts, data, tabular material, and experimental findings in every area of chemistry.

Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs and Biologicals, 11th Ed. Susan Budavari, ed. 1989.

Location: RS356.M324

One-volume compendium, includes literature references and a very good cross index to search under the common names.

Laboratory Safety

Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials 10th Ed. Richard J. Lewis. 2000.

Location: REF T55.3.H3 L494 2000

3 volume set includes comprehensive hazard information on substances encountered in the workplace or lab. Material safety profiles and lists other reports where additional information can be found.

Cornell University MSDS

Location: http://msds.ehs.cornell.edu/msdssrch.asp

Material Safety Data Sheets from Cornell University: search under MSDS by any word, molecular formula, product name or manufacturer.

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

Location: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html

General industrial hygiene information on chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Searchable by names, synonyms, and CAS numbers.

Vermont SIRI MSDS

Location: http://siri.uvm.edu/msds

Materials safety data sheets from the University of Vermont: searchable by product name, CAS, NSN or by partial words. Also has links to other hazardous materials archives.

Haz-Map: Occupational Exposure to hazardous Agents

Location: http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov

Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, Haz Map is an occupational toxicology database by hazardous agents, occupational diseases, and high risk jobs.

Chemistry Databases for George Washington University Students

To access those sources with a Location of "ALADIN," go to ALADIN, (http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/). Under Databases by Title, choose the appropriate category, depending on the first letter of the database you are looking for.

ACS Web Editions

Location: ALADIN

Journals and magazines from the American Chemical Society. GW subscribes to MOST of the titles.

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)

This database contains numerical and bibliographic data on crystal structures of inorganic compounds. Access is restricted to GW students, faculty and staff and requires a login and password for access. Contact the reference desk for this information.

Royal Society of Chemistry Online Journals

Location: ALADIN

For a complete listing of journals that GW subscribes to, go to ALADIN.

SciFinder Scholar

Includes online Chemical Abstracts 1967-present. SciFinder Scholar uses a special software which must be downloaded onto user's computer. If you are a current GW faculty, staff, or student who would like to use SciFinder Scholar, please ask at Gelman Library Reference Desk for terminal information. If you would like access to SciFinder Scholar from your office, and need to proper software installed, please contact Cynthia Holt at 202-994-1352 or holt@gwu.edu

Web of Science

Location: ALADIN

Provides access to Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. Search current and retrospective research journals with unique cited reference searching, and access highly cited scientists. IP verification, or access through ALADIN.

Chemistry Professional Societies

American Chemical Society

Location: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html

News, resources, and research updates including links to all of the technical divisions. Provides information on ACS products and services including publications, software and meetings.

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

Location: http://www.iupac.org/index_to.html

IUPAC is the international union of chemical societies. It sets standards in many areas of chemistry, especially chemical nomenclature. There are also glossaries of other chemical terms, and links to its publications.

Resources of Scholarly Societies - Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Location: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/chem_soc.html

Access to web sites and gophers maintained by or for scholarly chemistry and chemical engineering societies around the world.

Royal Society of Chemistry

Location: http://www.rsc.org

For access to online versions of their journals, click on products, then journals, and then online. Full text of the journals to which Gelman Library subscribes is available to GWU faculty and students. Ask at Gelman's reference desk for logon information and password. Contains links to subject divisions as well.

Guides to Web Resources (first stops on the web)

Academic Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments in the U.S.

Location: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/docs/chemuniv.html

Links to academic chemistry departments and chemistry sections of national research labs. Also provides options to connect to Academic Chemistry Departments outside the U.S.

ChemCenter

Location: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html

Home page for the American Chemical Society containing current news, recent articles, other ACS educational sites, and information on public policy and legal affairs.

CHEMINFO: Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University

Location: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/

This site is maintained by Gary Wiggins, librarian and instructor in chemical information at Indiana University, is a guide to useful information resources in Chemistry, and how to use them.

Chemistry Metasites

Location: http://www.brocku.ca/library/subres/guide.php?id=102

Maintained by the James A. Gibson Library at Brock University, Canada, this site has extensive links to other chemistry sites.

ChemSpy

Location: http://www.chemspy.com

Metasearch engine for the chemical industry. Users are able to search for patents, periodic tables, journals, chemistry departments, chemical encyclopedias, and chemical safety data.

ChemWeb

Location: http://www.chemweb.com

You must register for free membership to obtain access to a variety of information sources in all chemistry fields. Included is access to chemical periodicals, books, databases, career links, and discussion groups. For some resources there is a charge.

Links for Chemists

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

This index maintained by the University of Liverpool now lists over 8400 Chemistry resources on the Internet, organized by topic, organizations, literature, and industries.

NIST Virtual Library Chemistry Subject Guide

Location: http://nvl.nist.gov/nvl2.cfm?dynamic=res_subj&subjectid=7

Guide to chemistry web resources from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) containing excellent links to databases, associations, safety data sheets, periodic, and nuclide tables.

The Virtual Chemistry Center

Location: http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradChemistry.html

Listing of chemistry resources on the Internet including preprints and journals in a variety of chemistry subfields.

Property Data for Chemical Substances

CS Chemfinder

Location: http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com

You must register for free access to this site from Cambridge software which allows you to search by chemical name, molecular weight, formula, or CAS number.

Hazardous Chemicals Database

Location: http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/

This database from the University of Akron, allows the user to retrieve information on over 1300 chemicals based on a keyword search by names, formula, or registry numbers (CAS,DOT,RTECS and EPA)

NIST Chem WebBook

Location: http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ Excellent source from the

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), searchable by formula, name, CAS registry number, reaction, author, structure, ion energetics properties, vibrational energies, and molecular weight. Links to other NIST databases in Chemistry subfields.

NIST Online Physical Data

Location: http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html

Contains links to the National Institute of Standards and Technology collections of physical data, plus a catalog of other NIST data collections.

NIST WebBook

Location: http://webbook.nist.gov

Gateway to the data collections of NIST provides access to the full array of data complied and distributed by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.

Organic Compounds Database

Location: http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/cmp/cmp.html

This compound database has been compiled at Virginia Tech and provides information on over 2400 compounds, which can be searched by melting point, boiling point, molecular weight, formula, spectral peaks, or UV absorption.

SOLV-DB

Location: http://solvdb.ncms.org/

This site from the National Center for Manufacturing Services provides property data on solvents. It is searchable by name, formula, CAS, or property data values.

Resources in Sub fields of Chemistry

Spectral Data

Spectral Data for Chemical Analysis

Location: http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/guides/sciences/spectraldata.html

SDBS

Location: http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/menu-e.html

Integrated spectral database system for organic compounds sponsored by the National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research in Japan (NMR and MS). Searchable by compound name, molecular formula, weight, CAS number, number of atoms and ppm.

SpectroscopyNow.com

Location: http://www.spectroscopynow.com/Spy/basehtml/SpyH

This site offers resources on atomic, IR, MRI, MS, NMR, Raman, X-ray, chemometics and proteomics.

Analytical

Analytical Chemistry Springboard

Location: http://www.anachem.umu.se/jumpstation.htm

Hosted by Umea University, this is a gateway to analytical chemistry resources available on the web including resources for atomic spectroscopy, electrophoresis, nuclear magnetic resonance, as well as links to non-profit organizations, tutorials, and newsgroups.

Clinical

Clinical Chemistry

Location: http://www.clinchem.org/

The American association for Clinical Chemistry hosts full, free text to the International Journal of Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis.

Crystallography

Crystallography Online

Location: http://www.iucr.org/cww-top/crystal.index.html

Maintained by the International Union of Crystallography, this collection of links leads to information about crystallography associations, conferences, data, databases, employment, and journals.

Electrochemical

Electrochemical Science and Technology Information Resource

Location: http://electrochem.cwru.edu/estir/

Hosted by the Chemical Engineering Department Case Western reserve University and YCES, this site contains general and varied information about electrochemistry and resources available.

Organic

Organic Chemistry Sources Worldwide

Location: http://www.organicworldwide.net

Designed for organic chemists, collects and annotates organic chemistry sites. Links to organic chemistry literature, properties, catalogs, labs, and tutorials.

Organic Synthesis Monograph Series

Location: http://www.orgsyn.org

Detailed experimental methods for the synthesis of organic compounds: requires free ChemDraw plug-in.

Organometallic

Organometallic HyperTextbook

Location: http://www.ilpi.com/organomet/index.html

Resource and links for organometallic chemistry

Patents

Esp@cenet

Location: http://ep.espacenet.com

Free European Patent database, searchable by keyword, title, patent number, company, applicant or inventor.Contains some U.S. patents not available at the USPTO website.

US Patent and Trademark

Location: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

Searchable database of all U.S. patents and applications - text and images. Must download TIFF viewer to be able to print patent images.

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