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Reference Resources

General Resources

• Organic Chemistry Portal
• Chemistry Index, Institut für Chemie, Berlin
• Chemistry WebBook, NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69
• Chemistry Hypermedia Project, Virginia Tech
• Sheffield ChemDex
• MolData, chemical data on the web, Pomona
• Chemicals Branch, UNEP

Abbreviations and Acronyms

• CAS Source Index, journal titles and abbreviations
• Chemical Acronyms Database, Indiana University
• Organic Chemistry Acronyms, H.J. Reich

Current Awareness and News

• E-mail Alerts, ACS
• Journals Email Alerting Service, Royal Society of Chemistry
• Physical Sciences: Chemistry e-Alert, CSIRO

Databases

• See also: Indexes and Abstracts
• Where to find MDSS [Material Data Safety Sheets] on the internet, Interactive Learning Paradigms, Inc.
• SIRI MSDS Index, Vermont Safety Information Resources
• International Chemical Safety Cards, NIOSH, CDC
• ChemIDplus Advanced, National Library of Medicine
• PubChem Compound Database, National Library of Medicine
• ChemSpider, Chemical Identifier Search, Royal Society of Chemistry
• ChemSynthesis, synthesis and physical properties data
• [Advanced Product Search], SigmaAldrich
• Organic Compounds Database, Virginia Tech
• ThermoDex, An Index of Selected Thermodynamic and Physical Property Resources, University of Texas at Austin
• Substance Registry Services, EPA
• EnviroFacts Data Warehouse, EPA
• EcoTox Database, EPA
• Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) Interactive Database, NIOSH
• Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases, USPTO

Dictionaries, Glossaries and Thesauri

• General Chemistry Glossary, Frostburg
• IUPAC Nomenclature, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• IUPAC Glossary of terms used in Toxicology, 2nd edition, IUPAC recommendations, 2007, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Chemistry and Human Health Division, published in Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 79, No. 7, pp. 1153-1344, 2007
• IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.

Directories

• Directories, Chemical Industry Search Engine
• POPS Laboratory Databank, databank of laboratories analyzing persistent organic pollutants, UNEP

Guides, Manuals, and Handbooks

• See also: Style Manuals
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
• Occupational Health Guidelines for Chemical Hazards, NIOSH
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, requires a UNB email id and PIN
• NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
• Digital Lab Techniques Manual, MIT OpenCourseWare
• Chemistry WebBook, NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69, June 2005 Release
• Laboratory Chemical Hygiene Plan, Office of Environmental Health and Safety, University of Virginia

Images and Models

• Molecular Expressions: The Galleria, FSU
• Molecular Database Project: 3-D Virtual Chemistry Library, Imperial College

Indexes and Abstracts

• See also: Databases
• Agricola, NAL, US
• Energy Citations Database, OSTI, DOE
• National Environmental Publications Information System, EPA
• ToxNet, collection of databases including ToxLine, IRIS, TRI, etc., National Library of Medicine

Organizations, Insititutions, Government Departments and Agencies

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC
• American Chemical Society
• Canadian Society for Chemistry
• Chemical Institute of Canada
• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, US
• EPA, US
• Global Environment Facility
• National Institute of Environmental Health Services, US
• National Research Council, Canada
• Office of Science, US Department of Energy
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• World Resources Institute

Periodic Tables

• A Periodic Table of the Elements, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Chemical Elements, an interactive periodic table, Yinon Bentor
• Mendeleev's First Periodic Table, Elements and Atoms: Chapter 12
• WebElements, a periodic table with links to information on each element, Mark Winter
• Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements, University of Kentucky

Search Engines

• CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
• Scirus
• WolframAlpha

Style Manuals

• Chemistry Style Manual, Kieran F. Lim, Deakin University, 2004
• Preparing a Research Report, ACS

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Study and Learning

Collective Resources

• General Chemistry Online, Frostburg
• Finding Physical and Chemical Properties, Vanderbilt
• Molecule of the Month, Brisbane

Books, Papers ...

Collections

• Chemistry, freely accessible, full-text books, National Academies Press
• Online Books Page: QD [Chemistry], University of Pennsylvania
• Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry

Individual Titles

• Chem1 Virtual Textbook
• ChemWiki: The Dynamic Chemistry Textbook, University of California, Davis
• Introduction to Chemistry, Mark Bishop
• Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry, William Reusch

Lectures and Tutorials

• Chemistry, MIT OpenCourseWare
• Analytical Chemistry, University of Akron
• Acid and Base pH Tutorial, UBC
• General Chemistry: Exam Survival Guide, Frostburg

Serials

• Chemistry Central, open access, peer reviewed periodicals
• Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2005 forward, full-text, open access
• Chemistry Central Journal, 2007 forward, significant full-text, open access
• International Journal of Chemistry, 2009 forward, full-text, open access
• Molecules, 1996 forward, significant full-text, open access
• Open Analytical Chemistry Journal, 2009 forward, full-text, open access

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