| Finding Books | Web Guides |
| Finding Articles and Data | Visualizations (Selected Sites) |
| Handbooks and Encyclopedias | Tutorials |
Finding Books
| Searching the catalog for books on chemistry: | ||
| Try a keyword search: | calorimetry AND heat fullerene* AND nano** |
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| Try a subject search: | chemistry, forensic fermentation |
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| Browse the stacks: | Chemistry- Crystallography — QD901’s Chemistry- Biochemistry — QD415 |
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Finding Articles
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Chemical Abstracts – ELECTRONIC Members of the Drexel community may access Chemical Abstracts electronically through SciFinder Scholar. The SciFinder Scholar Learning Center provides in-depth guidance to using SciFinder Scholar. Check out how SciFinder Scholar can be used to study the Chemistry of Bling! |
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ChemSpider – WWW ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information. |
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Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry Database – ELECTRONIC The world’s largest chemical facts database include structures, physical properties, reactions and literature quotations covering 7.5 million organic compounds. Access is now in a web-based application called DISCOVERYGATE. Off-Campus users must use Drexel’s Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access this resource. See Drexel VPN Instructions for assistance. |
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| Gmelin’s Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry – PRINT Gmelin’s Handbook of Inoganic Chemistry Guide covers the entire field of inorganic chemistry from the middle of the 18th century and is based on the original publications. The world’s largest chemical facts database include structures, physical properties, reactions and literature quotations covering approximately 1 million inorganic and organometallic compounds. A useful web guide to Gmelin can be found at SUNY-Buffalo. HagertyLower Level Bound Journal |
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| Landolt-Bornstein: Numberical Data & Functional Relationships – PRINT Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data & Functional Relationships (Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Physik, Chemie, Astronomie, Geophysik und Technik) is a systematic and comprehensive collection of critically assessed data from all fields of physics, physical chemistry, biophysics, geophysics, astronomy, materials science, and technology. In some ways it is to physics what Beilstein is to organic chemistry. Here is a pdf guide to Landolt-Bornstein. Hagerty 2nd Floor QC61.L33 and QC61.L332 |
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Handbooks and Encyclopedias
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ChemFinder: compound searching – WWW Searchable database offering basic information, including physical property data and 2D chemical structures for several thousand most common chemical compounds. Can be searched by chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight. Heavy with advertisements, some services from this site require paid subscriptions. |
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Chemistry WebBook – WWW The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Chemistry WebBook provides users with easy access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the internet. The data provided in the site are from collections maintained by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and outside contributors. |
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| CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics – ELECTRONIC and PRINT Online or Print (Hagerty Reference QD65 .H3) |
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| CHEMnetBASE- ELECTRONIC | ||
| knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References – ELECTRONIC Database of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. knovel is the only provider of aggregated engineering and applied science data that can be accessed globally utilizing proprietary tabular analysis tools. Provides tabular and graphical data, including facts, figures, formulas and definitions. Search results include full bibliographic and citation information, links to both PDF full text content, and help screens. Full text includes original data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations, charts, and much more. |
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| Web Elements – WWW WebElements aims to be a high quality source of information on the WWW relating to the periodic table. You will find thousands of graphics showing elements structures and periodic properties here. Currently, most information is about the elements themselves but the scope of WebElements will include simple compounds as well in the future. |
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| Web Periodic Table – WWW A graphic and interactive periodic table. Packed with information. |
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| Peiodic Table of Videos - WWW This unique and imaginative site offers short videos for each of the elements of the periodic table. It is quite fun and informative. Definitely worth the visit. |
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Selected Web Resources
| The Alchemist – WWW A weekly current awareness webzine of ChemWeb.com, providing the chemical community with daily news and weekly feature articles, including reviews of software, books and websites. |
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American Chemical Society/ACSWeb – WWW Some parts of the web site are for members only and access to some journals are by paid subscription only. Access individual ACS journals from our journals list or access ACS web site from our Databases page. |
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Royal Society of Chemistry – WWW The Learned Society for chemistry and the Professional Body for chemists in the UK. The Society is a major publisher and provider of chemical information, supports the teaching of chemistry at all levels, organises hundreds of chemical meetings a year and is a leader in communicating science to the public. |
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Chemistry Guide – WWW A comprehensive collection of annotated links for chemists and researchers involved in organic, biochemical, computational, medicinal and/or other chemistry research. |
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Visualizations (Selected Sites)
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ChemGallery: A Showcase of Molecular Illustrations – WWW These are images of molecular art created to illustrate various chemical discoveries. |
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| Chemistry Art Gallery at the University of Liverpool - WWW | ||
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ChemSketch – WWW Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) is renowned for their expertise in many areas of chemistry. ACD/ChemSketch is a chemical drawing software package available for free download. |
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Tutorials
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Information Literacy for the Sciences A self-paced tutorial for advanced scholarship in the sciences. |
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