Internet links

Gateways to chemistry resources

• Chemdex - a listing of over 7,000 Chemistry-related sites (UK, USA, Europe and worldwide). Held at Sheffield University and updated regularly.
• Links for chemists - over 8,400 links to chemistry resources, with a search facility. The Chemistry section of The WWW Virtual Library.
• Scirus a searchable gateway to science resources on the web.
• Open Directory - Science: Chemistry (dmoz) - over 4000 selected Internet resources for chemistry which can be searched or browsed. The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
• The School of Chemistry (University of Bristol): chemistry-related web links page - a useful listing of sites in the UK, Europe and the USA.
• CHEMINFO Resource Guides - from Indiana University, include Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry and Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials.
• About.com (Chemistry section) - a more commercial search engine /directory of chemistry sites on the Web. Other sections deal with other subjects. Note: 'Search engines' (link below) like Yahoo also provide subject breakdowns of sites.
• Chemie.DE - Chemistry Information Service - supported by the German Academic Network Organisation. Includes links, software reviews, jobs, conferences, etc. Includes a 'Chemistry Search Engine', a 'Chemicals Search' and a useful 'Toolbox' can help you with abbreviations, acronyms, units, chemical terms (dictionary) and the periodic system.

Data sources and chemical catalogues

• CRC handbook of chemistry and physics online - there is also a page of advice on using the online CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. The Quick reference tools page gives details of other online data books.
• ChemSpider - ChemSpider is a free-to-access collection of chemical compound data from across the web, provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). It aggregates chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository, providing free text and structure search access to millions of chemical structures.
• Reaxys - includes the Beilstein and Gmelin handbooks of organic and inorganic compounds and chemistry patents information. More information is available.
• WebElements - a database of information about the elements.
• eMolecules - eMolecules is an open-access chemistry search engine for finding information about, and suppliers of, chemicals. Includes chemical structure and substructure searching. Previously known as Chmoogle.
• NIST chemistry Web-book - thermodynamic and other data for common chemicals. Other NIST data collections are available.
• Sigma-Aldrich - includes searchable catalogues covering over 200,000 products and chemicals from Aldrich, Fluka, Sigma, Supelco, etc. You will need to register to gain full benefit from the site.
• ChemFinder - searchable, providing basic physical data and links to other websites for a large number of compounds.
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) - a page describing MSDS and providing many links to sources of MSDS, from the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.
• spectroscopyNOW.com - a portal to spectroscopy resources and information, from Wiley.
• If you need to look up journal title abbreviations to find the full title of a journal (or vice versa) there are links to useful sites on the Journal title abbreviations (Chemistry) page.
• Chemical Database Service  - based at Daresbury Laboratory, this includes databases covering crystallography (including the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)), spectroscopy (including SpecInfo / SpecSurf), and physical chemistry (DETHERM).  You must first register to use these services and have the School of Chemistry departmental representative for the CDS countersign your form - see CDS website registration page.
• See also the Chemistry quick reference tools page

Learned societies and other organisations

• Royal Society of Chemistry - news, jobs, publications, meetings and RSC Library and Information Centre.
• American Chemical Society - news, publications, meetings, jobs from the world's largest scientific society.
• Chemsoc- the RSC's chemical science network which includes a science timeline (with particular emphasis on chemistry), Visual Elements, events and activities, networks and societies, careers & job centre, and web links.
• Society of Chemical industry.
• IUPAC - news, publications, recommendations and links from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. There is also a UK site with various full-text recommendations on nomenclature and glossaries of terms including an online version of the Blue book on nomenclature of organic compounds

Learning resources

• Internet for Chemistry - A free 'teach yourself' tutorial on Internet information skills for chemists from Intute. This will help you to find and learn how to use chemistry information. Other subjects available also.
• Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre - provides support to teachers of the physical sciences in UK higher education, including chemistry, physics and astronomy. This has taken over from the CTI.
• Guides to writing for chemistry - a link to a downloadable guide is on the Quoting references and writing page.
• Physical sciences discussion lists - available through JISCmail. Join these to help keep in touch with a subject.

Other online resources

Quick search on the Library homepage includes the Library Catalogue, eJournals catalogue, Google Scholar, and through the 'Articles & Databases' tab access to many other resources via MetaLib: your resource gateway.

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