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.
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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).
- 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.

Information from Science Citation Index
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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
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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
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Jobs information from the ACS
Post your resume, get instructions on creating a web-ready resume, check
lists of jobs and employers.
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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.
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InfoTrac: Expanded Academic Index; Health
Reference Index; General Business Index. All have full-text.
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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.
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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.
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ScienceDirect: Full content of about 1200 Elsevier
journals, from 1995-
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Compendex: Engineering
information, citations and abstracts only. Connects to ScienceDirect for full
content.
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Proquest Direct: Business information, includes
New York Times and Wall Street Journal plus Boston area papers--full text
available.
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Lexis/Nexis: Academic Universe Business news,
legal and biographical information. Full-text.
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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.
- 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.
Guides to using search engines.
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