Chemistry Subject Guide

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• Print Resources
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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Chemistry plus significant online resources and print materials housed in Swem Library’s first floor reference section or in the branch libraries. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the science, social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.

Liaison

Liaison in charge: Karen Berquist

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Database/Article Indexes

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• ebrary
• Science Direct
• ACS Journals
• Web of Science
• Pubmed
• SciFinder Scholar

Print Resources

Background Information

• The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals
• Lange's Handbook of Chemistry
• Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry
• Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
• Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry
• Handbook of Organic Compounds

Bibliographies

• Information Sources in Chemistry
• How to Find Chemical information
• Chemical Information Sources

Web Resources

• chemistry.org
  The primary site of the American Chemical Society, with chemistry news, links to ACS journals, and educational and career information.

• Chemdex
  A directory of chemistry on the web, with almost 6,000 links to chemical information sites.

• Links for Chemists
  An index of over 8,400 chemistry resources on the web; part of the WWW Virtual Library.