Here are WEB sites which you will use during the course.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1, 2, 2A, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

•  Aldrich Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals. Includes Fluka and Sigma catalogs. Most information is free but prices require registration. If you wish to investigate, you may register yourself (it is free). Or username: UMass; P/w: lowell  Spectra and MSDS sheets available.
• Merck Index 14th edition. Available online with or without ChemDraw.
• Chemfinder. Search by name, or registry number. Identifies other web sites with verifiable chemical information.
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. The venerable resource for all chemists, now available in electronic format.
• NIST site. This is the Federal Government site of the National Institute of Science and Technology.  It is a well-maintained, reliable site for physical properties of compounds, plus spectra but many spectra are vapor spectra, not condensed phase or liquid, so be cautious with this site.
• Alfa Aesar Catalog. Much information available, including a literature reference and MSDS sheet.
• Knovel over 900 technical handbooks--search for data, or information on a topic. Excellent tables of physical properties, with capabilities for interactive graphs.
• Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials Excellent detailed toxicity references; one of the best resources in Knovel
• Combined Chemical Dictionary: New online resource for excellent overview of many compounds, includes basic data on compounds and derviatives, with extensive older literature references.

• SDBS spectral database   Japanese database offering many spectra, IR, NMR, MS, ESR, and Raman.
• MSDS Sheets This site claims to be the clearinghouse for MSDS sites on the Internet. Many different kinds of searching allowed, including by manufacturer. Includes links to all important MSDS sites, with search engines for each one.
• MSDS Sheets   Another list (Kentucky). Experiment!
• MSDS Sheets  A new site from VWR.com.  Thousands of chemicals available but no searching by registry number.  No need to register, either.
• MSDS Sheets  This site claims to have thousands of MSDS sheets available in PDF format, free. I have registered for the class. Username: Inforet Password: TanneR (case sensitive).

• List of Journals  Core Journals available in Chemical Abstracts, with Abbreviations
• Sections of Chemical Abstracts Detailed list of the 80 sections of Chemical Abstracts.
• Chemical Abstracts Standard Abbreviations List List of all rules for abbreviation in the Chemical Abstracts database.
• SciFinder Scholar Help. Links under "What it will do for you" offer detailed step-by-step guidance.
• SciFinder Scholar tutorial.  A new self-guided hands on tutorial for using SFS.  You may download the software onto your own computer or use the preloaded tutorial in Olney 223.
• SciFinder guide to searching for Preparations
• Chemical Abstracts year span list

• US Patent Office All US patents since 1790!  Full text provided, which includes citations, references, abstract and the text of the patent. References to other patents are linked.  Images for all patents available, in TIFF format which must be printed one page at a time.
• Asitri: This site will reformat and print any US Patent as a PDF file.  You only need the patent number. {It does not always connect}
• Free Patents Online: Free website, offering PDF versions of all patents from number 4000000-.
• World  Intellectual Property Organization, PCT  WO patents with citations, abstracts and references supplied. WO applications since 1997- also included.
• European Patent Office. Patent applications in original language from EP and WO may be found here. JP applications with English title and abstract are available. Images from PCT, EP and JP are available.
  Crazy Patents: a site to make you laugh and wonder in amazement at the crazy things people patent.

• Toxnet a government sponsored compilation of citations on toxicology, environmental contaminants, etc.  The databases covered are described here.
• Organic Syntheses: Complete set of this title now available on the WEB. You must have ChemDraw to use the structural tool but you may do regular searching without installing it. Excellent! 
• PubChem Government sponsored "small-molecule" database, can be structure searched.  Offers links to similar structures, bioassays and literature references. No registry number searching. For help and explanations, go here.

• Beilstein Dictionary
• Abbreviations list for Beilstein Should help you to translate the Beilstein entries.
• Beilstein Lecture notes from Mrs. Muskiewicz
  
  

Information from Science Citation Index

• 50 Most Cited Chemists
• Lists of the cited chemists and physicists

• Thomas Register. An on-line list of all manufacturers in the United States.  Searchable by product. Information given is minimal (address, phone, & product only). Username: UML, Password: lowell 

• College Finder. Via Petersons.com, a free service.

• Graduate School Planning ACS step by step advice on going to graduate school

• Directory of Graduate Research from the ACS.  Details on professors and programs in all Chemistry graduate programs in the country.  Free and searchable.

• Getting a job in chemistry Good basic advice from the ACS on choosing a career in chemistry and looking for a job

• Jobs information from the ACS Post your resume, get instructions on creating a web-ready resume, check lists of jobs and employers.

• Salary surveys.  Just for your information, 300+ surveys in all fields. This is also a good job-seeking site.

These databases will be found at the Library WEB SITE

For detailed descriptions of all databases available via the Library web page, consult Database Descriptions.

•  InfoTrac: Expanded Academic Index; Health Reference Index; General Business Index. All have full-text.

• Academic Search Premier: Large full-text database on general subjects, with strengths in health and education; over 3700 journals in full text.  Additional databases available, such as Medline, CINAHL, and Business Source Premier.

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: Includes Biological Sciences, Medline, and a number of specialized databases in social science fields. Citations and abstracts only but LinkSource can connect one to full text.

• ScienceDirect: Full content of about 1200 Elsevier journals, from 1995-

• Compendex: Engineering information, citations and abstracts only. Connects to ScienceDirect for full content.

• Proquest Direct: Business information, includes New York Times and Wall Street Journal plus Boston area papers--full text available.

• Lexis/Nexis: Academic Universe Business news, legal and biographical information. Full-text.

• American Chemical Society Journals. Full content of  all ACS journals and the complete ACS Archive, with all journals available from volume 1-. 

Search engine links.

• List of major search engines, via Library WEB page.
• How to read Web addresses.
• QCards: explain the use of each major search engine.

• Directory sites:
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet. Indexed and annotated subject list, with related topics.
  • Yahoo: a directory of sites.  Good place to start if you have a particular or exact subject in mind.
  • FederalWorld Reliable site for finding the huge amounts of government information on the WEB.
  • USA.gov a good gateway to government sites.
• Search engines:
  • Google: Excellent top rated  search engine, ranks pages by the quality of links.
  • Google Scholar : Offshoot of Google, restricted to scholarly papers.
  • Scirus: Search engine restricted to science sites, sponsored by Elsevier. They have permission to crawl a number of proprietary databases, such as ScienceDirect.
  • AlltheWEB: Claims to have the largest number of sites covered.
  • Ask Jeeves: allows you to ask your question in plain English.
  • Mamma another nice mega-search engine, ranks best results regardless of source.
  • Hotbot  large search engine, one of the best indexes on the WEB; can use fill-in template.

• Switchboard. finding people.
• Super pages  for searching yellow pages.
• Library of Congress Catalog

Guides to using search engines.

• Bare Bones Tutorial

Getting to the truth:

•     Urban Legends, truth or fiction

Other sites which you may find useful.

• Periodic Table of the Elements.
• ACS Interactive Periodic Table
• PubChem
• WebElements
• Chemdex
• ChemWEB watch out for charges! Some material is free.
• Chemistry Information Page. Links to many useful sites.
• Chemistry Information from Cal Tech--extensive list! 
• Journal of Chemical Education backfiles
• Free Chemistry databases on the Web--list from Indiana University
• Gallica extensive collection of PDF's of old journals from the French National Library

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5/3/07