Some useful/interesting data sources
Properties
- Excellent guide to finding sources of physical and chemical properties (created by Linda Shackle, ASU, Noble Library)
- Crytallography Resources-Dana Roth Cal Tech
- Variety of Chemistry and Bological free databases (Indiana U)
- IUPAC Solubility Database
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- NIST Data Gateway
- NIST CKMech-Kinetics, etc.
- Thermodex-Index of thermodynamic and physical properties-created at UTexas Libraries
- List of US Government sites with Chemical data
- The Organic Compounds Database
- NIST Physical Reference Data
- ChemIDplus from the National Library of Medicine
- Household Products Database
- LBNL/Lunds Table of Isotopes
- US Dept. of Energy Science & Technology
- PubChem-a product of the National Library of Medicine
- Environmental Fate Data Base
- Protein Data Bank
- CAMEO Chemicals-Online Database of Hazardous Materials-NOAA
- Landolt-Bornstein Substance/Property Index (Partial print collections in Chem Ref and Physics-Astron Ref)
- Electrochemistry Encyclopedia (and dictionarY) from Case Western Reserve
- Database of Zeolite Structures
Spectra
- Sigma-Aldrich Catalog-now includes pdfs of many spectra
- Biological Magnetic Resonance Bank-UWisc. Biochemistry
- WebSpectra: Problems in NMR and IR Spectroscopy
- NMR Information Server
- SDBS Spectral Database
- Spectroscopic Tools at Potsdam University
Structure
- ChemSpider (beta)-crawls chemical literature. Search by structure and more
- Sites with structural info (small molecules)
- Crystallography Open Database
- E-book-Roberts, John D. (1961) Notes on Molecular Orbital Calculations. W. A. Benjamin.
- a gallery of atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals on the WWW
- Tutorial on MOL4D, hosted by Univ. Nijmegen-Chime required
- Making Matter(atomic structure)
- Balloon Molecules (molecular structure)
- IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
Learning tools, textbooks, etc.
- Chemistry Virtual Textbook
- Chemistry Learning Tools
- Organometallic HyperTextBook by Rob Toreki
- The Delights of Chemistry (demos, animations, pictures, and more)
- Organic Chemistry Help
Sponsored by the Frostburg State University Chemistry Department
- The ChemCollective-Online Resources for Teaching and Learning of Chemistry (Virtual Lab from Carnegie mellon)
- Periodic Table of Data-Games and information re the Periodic Table-Royal society of Chemistry
- Virtual Chemistry
- Web Elements
Chemical Literature
- The Chemistry Unpublished Papers Forum
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR
- The Chemistry Style Manual by Kiernan Lim (pdf version of style manual with Australian twist)
- INDEX TRANSLATIONUM-index of UNESCO translated items, including many in the sciences
- Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry (hosted by Lemoyne College)
Miscellaneous
- eScience from CAS-search the web with a science point of view
- IUPAC Goldbook-Chemical Terminology
- Science and Technology Statistics-NSF
- Digital Library of Ceramics Microstructures
- National Science Digital Library (sponsored by NSF)
- Landmarks in Chemical History
- NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
- PRIDE-PRoteomics IDEntifications database
- The nanotube Site
- IUPAC Nomenclature
- Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
- Acronym and Abbreviations Database
- BRENDA-The comprehensive Enzyme Information System (UW only)
- UNIProt
- What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents-from the ACS
- The Astrochemymist-Resources for Astrochemists
Chemistry-related portals and links
- Information Resources for Chemistry and Biochemistry(Huber-UCSB)
- Analytical Sciences Digital Library (supported by NSF)
- Science Links japan (Website in English)-Japanese Science and Technology Agency
- ChemSpy-portal for chemists, chemical engineers, and students
- The Wired Chemist
- Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS)
Fun
- Tom Stanfill does Tom Lehrer's The Elements
- Michael Swanwick's
Periodic Table of Science Fiction (on scifi.com)
- Periodic Table Quiz
updated 2/08
Suggestions by UW Students, Faculty, and staff welcome (only)