This guide will help you find books, articles, videos, and websites related to chemistry. There are also links to tutorials that will help you with research. For additional help, use the links to the right to set up a One-On-One Personal Research Appointment or contact a librarian via chat, email, or phone.
Materials on chemistry are in the QD section of the library. Below are links to some relevant materials in the Lakeland Library.
Chemistry - Lakeland Catalog Subject Search
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Kirk-Othmer)
Handbook of Tables for Organic Compound Identification
Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
The Merck Index : An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals
Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis
ACS Publications
Full text articles online. Search by topic or title of publication.
Electronic Book Center
Full text e-books on various topics. Keyword searchable.
Electronic Journal Center
Full text journals online. For Chemistry and Chemical Enginering Journals only, select Chemistry and Chemical Engineering under Journals by Subject.
Gale Virtual Reference Center - Chemistry
Reference materials on chemistry topics - keyword searchable.
Oxford Reference Chemistry
Oxford University Press provides several online dictionaries in the sciences.
Oxford Scholarship Online - Chemistry
Oxford University Press books on chemistry - keyword searchable.
Safari Books Online
Scholarly e-books, searchable by topic.
Web of Science
Topic searchable database searches the Web of Science Core Collection of materials.
Digital Resource Commons - Chemistry
Educational videos from Ohio universities on chemistry and physical science topics.
Chemistry
Khan Academy's educational videos on chemistry.
Chemistry Film Collection
Films on Demand collection of educational videos on topics in chemistry.
Organic Chemistry
Khan Academy's education videos on organic chemistry.
Below are a few recommended websites. Remember that information you find on the web needs to be evaluated carefully. For more information on evaluating websites, check out the Evaluating Sources Research Guide.
ChemDex
http://www.chemdex.org/
The Sheffield ChemDex is regularly updated and contains over 5000 links to chemistry resources on the internet.
ChemGuide
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/
Designed to help students understand the concepts of chemistry.
ChemID Plus
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemical.html
Database of over 375,000 chemicals, synonyms, structures, regulatory list information, and links to other databases.
Chemical Information Sources
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chemical_Information_Sources
Compilation of online chemical information resources.
Chemistry Resources on the Internet
http://guides.library.ucsb.edu/chemistry
Annotated list of good, free chemistry sites.
Chemicool
http://www.chemicool.com/
History and various information dealing with chemistry and, in particular, the periodic table of elements.
ChemSpider
http://www.chemspider.com/literaturesearch.aspx
ChemSpider is a free-to-access collection of compound data from across the web, provided for the benefit of the community by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). It aggregates chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and makes it available to everybody.
Classic Papers in the History of Chemistry
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/papers.html
Compilation of links to historical papers.
General Chemistry Online
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml
Provides notes and guides for the first semester chemistry student.
Merlot Chemistry Portal
http://chemistry.merlot.org/materials.html
Learning materials available for chemistry students.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
The National Institute for Standards and Technology provides various ways to search standard reference data on chemicals.
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
http://www.organicworldwide.net/
Designed as a reference guide for synthetic organic chenists, this site is structured around the daily tasks of an organic chemist.
PubChem
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules.
Science.gov
http://www.science.gov/
Gateway to government websites dealing with chemistry and other sciences.
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