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Reference Books  
  • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - QD65.H3, LRC-R
  • Dean's Handbook of Organic Chemistry - QD251.3G65, LRC-R
  • Encyclopedia of Chemistry - QD.R57, LRC-R
  • Facts on File Dictionary of Chemistry - QD5 .F33, LRC-R
  • Facts on File dictionary of Inorganic Chemistry -QD5.F24, LRC-R
  • Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary - QD5.C5, LRC-R
  • MacMillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry - QD.M33, LRC-R
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Web Sites
ACS Books: Reference Style Guidelines
http://pubs.acs.org/books/references.shtml
Provides ACS Reference samples.
Boston University Library, Science & Engineering Library, Research Guides: Chemistry
http://www.bu.edu/library/guides/index-sel.htmlm
From Boston University Science and Engineering Library. The Chemical Data section includes links to Basic Data, Physical Constants, Thermophysical Data, Biochemistry and Hazardous Chemistry. Provides links to encyclopedias, journals and indexes to journals and patent literature.
Cambridge Crystallagraphic Data Centre
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/
Chem4Kids
http://www.chem4kids.com/
Chemistry fundamentals.
ChemCenter: The Website of the American Chemical Society
http://acswebcontent.acs.org/home.html
Links to American Chemical Society's Web resources, including Chemical Abstracts Service. Includes links to electronic publications (some with FULL TEXT), scientific associations, universities, etc.
ChemGuide
http://www.fiz-chemie.de/datenbanken/chemguide/index.html
Fiz Chemie's specialized search engine covering chemistry-related web sites.
The Chemical Industry Home Page
http://www.neis.com/
Links to Chemical Industry Associations, environmental and analytical resources, new processes, and management references and resources. Maintained by the National Environmental Information Service.
CHEMIDplus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/chemidplusfs.html
A chemical dictionary file for over 350,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Records include CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formulae, generic names and synonyms.
The Chemistry Hypermedia Project
http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/vt-chem-ed.html
Chemistry.org: Educators and Students
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/educatorsandstudents.html (American Chemical Society)
eMolecules
http://www.emolecules.com/
O pen-access chemistry search engine.mission is to discover, curate and index all of the public chemical information in the world, and make it available to the public for free.
FACT: Facility for the Analysis of Chemical Thermodynamics
http://www.crct.polymtl.ca/fact/index.php
Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hsdbfs.htmll
Highwire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu
227 sites containing 219,806 free FULL TEXT articles, particularly in the scientific field.
IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/goldbook/index.htm
Part of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry Web site. Chemistry definitions are from the IUPAC Gold Book. The site contains Chemsoc Timeline, Visual Elements (described as the most stunning and artistic periodic table available on the web), Web Links, Learning Resources, and more.
Links for Chemists
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/ (WWW.Virtula Library)
Over 8,075 links to chemistry resources on the Internet. Maintained by the University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry.
MEDLINE
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
National Library of Medicine's database with an index and abstracts to many chemistry journals.
National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
NIST Chemistry WebBook
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
"Authoritative and represents critical evaluation of relevant data by experts." Covers "thermochemistry for 5,000 compounds, enthalpy of reaction for 3,000 reactions, infrared spectra for 5,000 compounds, mass spectra for 8,000 compounds, ion energetics data for 14,000 compounds, and more."
R & D Chemicals
http://www.rdchemicals.com/
A database of chemical compounds (accessible over Internet) that allows you to find a chemical by its molecular formula, IUPAC name, Smiles, common name, CAS number, structure or substructure.
WebChemistry
http://www.webchemistry.co.uk/
World Index of Biomolecular Visualization Resources
http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/index.htm

Periodic Tables

ACS Periodic Table (American Chemical Society)
http://center.acs.org/periodic/tools/PT.html
ChemSoc: The Visual Elements Periodic Table Star
http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/periodic_table.html
An exceptional visual interpretation of the Table of Elements
Environmental Chemistry.com: Periodic Table of Elements
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/index.html
The Periodic Table of Elements
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/
This site covers Theodore Gray's construction of a "literal" periodic table (it's designed as a wooden table). Click on any tile in the table to see more about the element. Provides links to other sites that include reports, samples of the element, and more.
Periodic Table of the Elements
http://www.ktf-split.hr/periodni/en/ (Eni Generalic, Faculty of Chemical Technology)
WebElements: The Periodic Table on the WWW Star
http://www.webelements.com
This highly rated site provides information on atomic elements. Thousands of graphics, links to physical properties and common compounds, photographs, video clips of important reactions, and cartoons are included. Author Mark Winter, University of Sheffield, UK.

Subject Directories and Portals

BioChemLinks
http://biochemlinks.com/
Specialized subject directory.
Chemistry.org: The Website of the American Chemical Society
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html
Librarians' Internet Index: Chemistry
http://lii.org/pub/subtopic/900 
Websites evaluated by librarians and categorized by a hierarchy of subjects.