Chemistry Resources on the Internet

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Commercial Information Providers

• Beilstein Information System
  http://www.beilstein.com/
  The Beilstein Information System is the producer of the largest compendium of organic chemical data in the world, the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry. This site provides information on Beilstein electronic products and services.

• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
  http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/
  The CCDC builds and maintains the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), the largest searchable database of experimentally determined crystal structures, covering organic and organometallic compounds.

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
  http://www.csa.com/
  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts provides a number of subscriber-only databases and environmental references which can be reached through this site, including a number of biochemical databases, the METADEX metals and materials database, and the Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts file.

• Chemical Abstracts Service
  http://www.cas.org/
  Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society, is the premier provider of current information from the literature of chemistry. This site includes information on CAS's print and electronic products and services, including documentation on STN International (the online service provided by CAS) and its commands and databases. If you have an STN account, you can access a number of STN databases via the STNEasy Web interface (http://stneasy.cas.org/ or use TELNET to search the full STN command line interface.(http://info.cas.org/ONLINE/STN/telnet.html)

• Chemical Information System
  http://www.nisc.com/cis/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 7/21/00 by ald]
  Chemical Information Service, a service of the Oxford Molecular Group, provides access to over thirty databases with chemical information, especially environmental data. This site gives a list of the databases available on CIS, and contact information.

• Derwent, Inc.
  http://www.derwent.com/
  Derwent is the world's leading producer of patent information databases, including the Derwent World Patents Index, and a number of specialty databases. This site includes some brief descriptions of the nature of patents and the patenting process. Derwent also maintains the Patent Explorer site (http://www.patentexplorer.com), a Web-based tool for searching and displaying U.S. and European Patent Office patents. Membership is required, and there are fees for displaying patents, but membership is free until July 1, 1998. [Note: Patent Explorer was discontinued 12/31/99]

• The Dialog Corporation
  http://www.dialog.com/
  The Dialog Corporation is the world's largest provider of information access, including both traditional online and Web access to the DIALOG and DataStar systems. The site above is the new home site for Dialog, and some of the information at the Web site is still in transition from the old web site, but there are links to the older site where necessary.

• Fachinformationszentrum nChemie
  http://www.fiz-chemie.de/en/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 7/21/00 by ald]
  FIZ Chemie is the producer of the Cheminform chemical reactions database, among others. The site includes demos of some of their databases.

• Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe
  http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/
  FIZ Karlsruhe produces several databases and is the German host of STN International)

• IFI/Plenum Data Corporation
  http://www.ifiplenum.com/ [Note: Broken link removed 3/29/02 by ald]]
  IFI/Plenum produces a family of U.S. patent databases, including some with sophisticated chemical and polymer indexing.

• Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
  http://www.isinet.com/
  ISI is the publisher of Current Contents and Science Citation Index. This site includes a "What's Hot in Research" section, with articles on recent highly-cited research, and citation impact studies of various fields, institutions and researchers.

• OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
  http://www.oclc.org/
  OCLC produces the WorldCat international library catalog and provides access to many other databases through its FirstSearch and EPIC services. These may be accessed by subscribers via TELNET from this site.

• Prous Science Publishers
  http://www.prous.es/
  Prous Science is a leading publisher of information on pharmaceuticals and medicinal chemistry.

• Questel/Orbit
  http://www.questel.orbit.com/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 4/23/98 by ald]
  Questel/Orbit is an international online information company specializing in patent, trademark, scientific, chemical, business and news information. This web site contains numerous links to other Web information, especially on patents, trademarks and other intellectual property. If you have a current Questel or Orbit account, you can TELNET to search their databases from here.

• SilverPlatter Information
  http://www.silverplatter.com/
  SilverPlatter is a major distributor of databases on CD-ROM and over the Internet (by subscription only.)

• Technical Database Services, Inc.
  http://www.tds-tds.com/
  TDS provides access to a large number of chemical property databases, especially dealing with thermodynamic and environmental properties of chemicals. This web site includes an online form for submitting requests for data on chemicals or mixtures of chemicals. There is a charge per value retrieved, with a minimum fee of $50.

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Publishers

• Academic Press
  http://www.apnet.com
  Includes browsable and searchable catalogs of books and journals. Chemistry publications are hidden in the "Physics, Engineering, Math and Computers" section.

• ACS Publications Division
  http://pubs.acs.org/index.html
  The American Chemical Society Publications home page includes information on ACS journals, books and software, instructions to authors for ACS journals, "hot articles" from Chemical & Engineering News, and more. Subscribers to the print or electronic versions of ACS journals may access supporting material for recent journal articles from this site.

• American Institute of Physics Press
  http://www.aip.org/publications.html
  Includes a searchable and browsable catalog of AIP books.

• Annual Reviews, Inc.
  http://annualreviews.org/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 3/3/01 by ald]
  Includes an index of Annual Reviews publications from 1984-present.

• Association of American University Presses Combined Online Catalog/Bookstore
  http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu/ [Note: Broken link removed 3/29/02 by ald]
  Includes a searchable catalog and online ordering.

• Baltzer Science Publishers
  http://www.baltzer.nl/
  Includes a browsable list of journals, with ordering information and instructions to authors.

• Blackwell Science
  http://www.blacksci.co.uk/
  Includes a browsable-by-subject list of a portion of their books and journals catalog, with ordering information.

• Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
  http://www.bna.com/
  BNA publishes materials dealing with environmental, health and safety and regulatory issues.

• Cambridge International Science Publishings
  http://www.demon.co.uk/cambsci/homepage.htm
  Publishers in materials chemistry and materials engineering. Not to be confused with the database publishers, the crystallographers or the software publishers...

• Chapman-Hall
  http://www.chapmanhall.com/ [Note: Link removed 3/3/01 by ald; Chapman and Hall is now part of Wolters Kluwer]
  Includes a searchable and browsable-by-subject catalog.

• Chemical Education Resource Shelf
  http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/artscience/chemistry/books/welcome.html
  This resource from the Journal of Chemical Education Online provides, among other things, a list of currently available chemistry textbooks, grouped in curricular categories, with links to publishers.

• Chemtec Publishing
  http://www.interlog.com/~chemtec/
  Chemtec is a Canadian publisher of books and journals, mainly dealing with polymer science.

• CRC Press
  http://www.crcpress.com/
  Includes a browsable-by-subject list of current books and other products, with ordering information.

• CSIRO Publishing
  http://www.publish.csiro.au/
  Australia's major publisher of scientific books and journals, including Australian Journal of Chemistry. Includes a list of current book titles browsable by subject.

• Elsevier Science
  http://www.elsevier.nl
  Includes a browsable and searchable catalog of books and journals, and an Alerting service at http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/alert/ which includes searchable tables of contents Elsevier Science journals back to January 1995, updated weekly. ToC's appear about six weeks after publication. [Note: Link moved; URL changed 3/29/02 by ald]

• Gauthier-Villars
  http://www.gauthier-villars.fr/eindex.htm [Note: As of 7/21/00 materials are now included on the Elsevier web site.]
  Includes a browsable-by-subject catalog of journals with ordering information. Also available in French.

• Institute of Physics Publishing
  http://www.iop.org/
  Includes a browsable list of books and journals, with instructions to authors and ordering information.

• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  http://www.wiley.com/
  Includes searchable and browsable catalogs, instructions to authors and electronic journals and forums.

• Jones and Bartlett Publishers
  http://www.jbpub.com/ Publishers of college textbooks and multimedia materials, including chemistry.

• Kluwer Publishing
  http://www.wkap.nl/
  Includes a searchable and browsable-by-subject catalog of books and journals.

• Marcel Dekker
  http://www.dekker.com/
  Includes a browsable and searchable catalog of books and journals.

• Plenum Publishing
  http://www.plenum.com/ [Note: As of 7/21/00 link redirects to Kluwer Academic Publishers]
  Includes a searchable and browsable catalog of books and journals. Plenum is a major publisher of Russian journals in translation.

• Prentice-Hall
  http://vig.prenhall.com/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 3/29/02 by ald]
  Includes a browsable-by-subject catalog. See College Books/Math and Science/Chemistry.

• Royal Society of Chemistry Information Services
  http://www.rsc.org/cgi-bin/fx.exe?DB=sld
  Includes a searchable catalog of RSC books and journals. [Note: Link moved; URL changed 10/14/98 by ald]

• Springer-Verlag (New York)
  http://www.springer-ny.com
  Includes an electronic journal preview service.

• Thieme
  http://www.thieme.com/
  Thieme publishes extensively in chemistry and medicine including Synlett and the Houben-Weyl Methods in Organic Chemistry series. Includes a browsable and searchable catalog.

• VCH Publishing Group
  http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 4/23/98, 3/29/02 by ald]
  Now a subsidiary of Wiley. Includes contact information for VCH and its subsidiaries, online catalogs of books and journals, and electronic tables of contents for a number of their journals.

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Electronic Journals, Conferences, Listservs, etc.

This listing is for electronic journals of general interest in chemistry. In addition to the listings below, most of the journal publishers listed above have at least some of their journals in electronic form, with information and/or links from their web sites.

• ChemConnect's List of Chemistry Journals Online
  http://www.chemconnect.com/library/journals.shtml [Note: Broken link removed 3/29/02 by ald]
  If you don't see the journal you're looking for below, try this very comprehensive list of chemistry and biochemistry-related electronic journals, grouped by "complete journals", "journals with some limitations" and "Tables of Contents or abstracts online". ChemConnect is a provider of Web services to the chemical industry and maintains a directory to chemical suppliers on the Internet (see also that section of this guide.)

• Aldrichimica Acta
  http://www.sigma.sial.com/aldrich/acta/index.htm [Note: Broken link removed 7/21/00 by ald]
  Available free of charge from Vol. 28, issue 4 to present, this publication contains review articles on various aspects of organic synthesis.

• American Chemical Society Journals
  http://acsinfo.acs.org/
  The electronic versions of 26 American Chemical Society journals are now available. They contain the full journal from 1996-present, in browsable and searchable form, with both HTML and Adobe Acrobat PDF versions of the pages, containing all graphics, with links to supporting material. The full text of the following journals is available to Internet subscribers only; print subscribers can obtain recent tables-of contents and recent abstracts and supporting material; anyone may view the instructions to authors, current tables-of-contents and author indexes.
  Starting in 1998, Web edition subscribers only have access to "Articles ASAP" - the full text of articles ready for publication, some 2-11 weeks before they appear in the printed journals.

• Australian Journal of Chemistry
  http://www.publish.csiro.au/journals/index.cfm [Note: Link moved; URL changed 3/3/01 by ald]
  This site includes tables of contents for most issues from 1994-present and abstracts in PDF format from 1997-present available to anyone, as well as the full text Web edition from 1998-present available to Web edition subscribers only.

• Bulletin of the International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis
  http://mm2.vein.hu:8000/~isom/ [Note: Broken link removed 3/3/01 by ald]

• Chemistry & Industry
  http://www.chemind.org/CI/index.jsp [Note: Link moved; URL changed 3/29/02 by ald]
  Chemistry & Industry is the international news magazine of chemistry and the chemical industry, published by the Society for Chemical Industry in Britain. This site provides the current issue, including job listings, plus selected archival articles.

• Chemistry Today
  http://chemistry.mond.org/ [Note: Broken link removed 3/29/02 by ald]
  This site, also from Society for Chemical Industry, provides current news in chemistry, job listings, searchable information on meetings and conferences, and Internet links on hot topics in chemistry.

• Internet Journal of Chemistry
  http://www.ijc.com/
  This is a new, electronic-only refereed journal, specializing in articles on uses of the Internet in chemistry, and articles in any area of chemistry which can best be presented in the Web/multimedia format. Access is free for 1998, but users must register on the Web site.

• Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy
  http://www.ijvs.com/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 3/29/02 by ald]
  A new electronic-only journal, available free of charge.

• JASMS Online
  http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/saa/webjam/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 7/21/00 by ald]
  This adjunct to the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry does not contain full-text of the print journal as yet. It does provide indexing to the journal, and "Fast Track Articles", which are fully peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication in JASMS that are posted electronically as pre-copyedited files within two weeks of acceptance.

• Journal of Biological Chemistry: Internet Edition
  http://www.jbc.org
  The full text of JBC (Jan. 1995-present) is available by subscription only.

• Journal of Chemical Education Online +
  http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Plus/index.html
  The online version of J. Chem. Ed. contains full text and graphics in PDF format from the Sept. 1996 issue on. It also includes "JCE Internet" articles which are available only in electronic form. Only individual print subscribers can subscribe to the Online edition, for an additional fee.

• Journal of Chemical Physics Express
  http://jcp.uchicago.edu/
  Manuscripts submitted by authors for distribution by JCP Express have been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics and will be available prior to publication only. They may be copied electronically and printed for individual use only.

• Neuroscience-Net
  http://www.neuroscience.com/
  This journal is very new (only a dozen or so articles yet) but looks promising, with articles on pharmacology, molecular biology, etc. of the nerves..

• Nonlinear Science Today
  http://gonzo.springer-ny.com/nst/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 3/3/01 by ald]
  This is an adjunct to the print Journal of Nonlinear Science, which covers subjects like chaos and turbulence over the whole range of science.

• Science
  http://www.sciencemag.org/
  This link connects to the less graphical version of Science's home page. Both versions have the same content. Includes searchable full-text of recent articles and the current classified and display job advertisements. Full text is available only to subscribers.

• The Scientist
  http://www.the-scientist.com/ [Note: Link moved; URL changed 7/21/00 by ald]
  The Scientist is a newspaper primarily aimed at life scientists, but with much material of general interest, especially about the interactions between science, academia, industry and government. Includes job listings. Also includes a link to the gopher version of The Scientist, which contains older archived material.

• Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences: Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/S0023.html [Note: Link moved; URL changed 7/21/00 by ald]
  This directory gives a brief listing of listservs, newsgroups and e-conferences in the chemical sciences. For other subject areas, or to search the directory by keyword, go to the main Directory home page at http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/index.html.

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