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Chemistry Subject Guide

Encyclopedias

The Aldrich Library of NMR Spectra (11 vol.)
--Reference Stacks-- QC 762 .P69
Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (8 vol.)
--Reference Stacks-- QD 148 .E53
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (26 vol.)
--Reference Stacks-- TP 9 .E685

Handbooks

Annual Book of ASTM Standards
--Reference Stacks-- TA 401 .A653
Chemical Properties Handbook
--Ready Reference-- TP 200 .Y35; also available online
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
--Ready Reference-- QD 65 .H3; also available online
CRC Handbook of Basic Tables for Chemical Analysis
--Reference Stacks-- QD 78 .B78
CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety
--Reference Stacks-- QD 51 .H27
CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology
--4th Floor Stacks-- QD 719 .C73
CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook
--Reference Stacks-- TA 403.4 .C74
For Good Measure : a Complete Compendium of International Weights and Measures
--Reference Stacks-- QC 88 .J6
Handbook of Organic Analytical Reagents
--Reference Stacks-- QD 77 .U35
Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Chemicals
--Reference Stacks-- QD 257.7 .H374
Hazardous Substances Resource Guide
--Reference Stacks-- T 55.3 .H3 H444
Knovel Critical Tables
-- online
Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 16th ed.
--Ready Reference-- QD65 .L36; 16th ed. also available online
The Merck Index : an Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals
--Ready Reference-- RS 51 .M4
Names, Synonyms, and Structures of Organic Compounds : a CRC Reference Handbook
--Reference Stacks-- QD 291 .N36
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 7th ed.
--Ready Reference-- TP 151 .P45; also available online
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
-- online
Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials
--Reference Stacks-- T 55.3 .H3 (3 vol.)
Smithsonian Physical Tables, 9th rev. ed.
-- online
Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances
-- online

Dictionaries

Condensed Chemical Dictionary
--Ready Reference-- QD 5 .C5
Dictionary of Organic Compounds (5 vol.)
--Reference Stacks-- QD 51.D49
The Facts on File Dictionary of Inorganic Chemistry
--Reference Stacks-- QD 5 .F34
The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Chemistry
--online-- netLibrary e-book
Riegel's Handbook of Industrial Chemistry, 10th ed.
--online-- netLibrary e-book

Guides to the Literature

Chemistry Resources in the Electronic Age
--Reference Stacks-- QD 9.3 .B39

Style Manuals

The ACS Style Guide : a Manual for Authors and Editors
--Ready Reference-- QD 8.5 .A25
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
--Ready Reference-- T 11 .S386

Biographies

Dictionary of Scientific Biography
--Reference Stacks-- Q 141 .D5 (18 vol.)
The Great Scientists
--Reference Stacks-- Q 141 .G767 (12 vol.)
Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present
--Reference Stacks-- Q 141 .N728 ( 5 vol.)

Indexes and Databases

Biological Abstracts-- Indexes and abstracts life science literature; provides some links to full-text articles.

Chemical Abstracts -- Please see Scifinder Scholar.

Chemical and Chemical Engineering Reference Books-- Provides electronic versions of 16 chemistry reference sources.

SciFinder Scholar -- Indexes and abstracts international journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings and dissertations for all areas of chemistry and chemical engineering; also includes SSM. Software must be downloaded and installed on the PC in order to use the database.

Internet Sites

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry -- Contains over 40,000 pages of toxicological information on over 150 compounds.

American Chemical Society -- Website of the American Chemical Society.

Atomic and Molecular Data -- A set of databases. From the Nuclear Data Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.

Elements, Visual -- From the Chemical Society, this site provides a visual interpretation of the table of elements.

Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds -- This National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research in Japan site contains full spectra and, in many cases, peak assignments for 30,000 compounds, including about 19,600 mass spectra, 11,000 13C NMR, 13,500 proton NMR, 47,300 IR, 3,500 Raman and 2,000 ESR spectra.

IUPAC Chemical Nomenclature -- Contains a number of IUPAC documents on organic and biochemical nomenclature, in many cases including sample structure diagrams.

NIST Chemistry WebBook -- Data compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty -- This National Institute of Standards and Technology has a searchable and browsable list of the important physical constants with bibliography, as well as a thorough description of the SI system of units and a description of methods of expressing degree of uncertainty in measurements. An excellent reference site.

OSHA Index of Sampling and Analytical Methods -- Contains a searchable and browsable index to the analytical sampling methods used by field hygienists of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

OSHA Chemical Sampling Information -- This site contains data on compounds frequently sampled for by health and safety personnel.

Spectroscopic Tools -- This site allows the user to plug in IR peaks in wavenumbers, proton NMR peaks or mass spectral peaks and retrieve a list of the functional groups which would generate those peaks. It also has a 13C NMR database, searchable by peak or chemical name fragment, which can retrieve structures, spectra, peaks and peak assignments.

TORVS Research Team -- Set of databases, including Chemical Structures Databases, from the Computer Chemistry Center at the University of Erlangen.

WebElements Periodic Table -- High quality source of chemistry information on the WWW relating to the periodic table.

WWW Virtual Library: Chemical Engineering -- Information resources relevant to Chemical and Process Engineering, from the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Florida.

WWW Virtual Library: Chemistry -- Chemistry web sites, from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA.