Chemical and Environmental Sciences Information Literacy Tutorials (written by Bruce Slutsky)

• How to find chemical and chemical engineering information (without narration)
• How to find chemical and chemical engineering information (with narration)
• How to find physical properties of chemical substances (without narration)
• How to find physical properties of chemical substances (with narration)
• How to find information in the environmental sciences (without narration)
• How to find information in the environmental sciences (with narration)

Selected guides to chemistry resources on the Internet

• Chemical Information Sources Wiki - compiled at Indiana University
• Chemistry Resources on the Internet - compiled by Dana Roth of Caltech
• Links for Chemists Compiled by the University of Liverpool
  - Over 8500 pointers to chemistry web resources.  

Selected Internet resources in chemistry

• Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
  - provided by Free University-Berlin
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
  - provided by Free University-Berlin
• ACS Directory of Graduate Research
• ACS Style Guide - Quick Guide Compiled by Penn State University
• Al's Notebook
  - a collection of common synthetic experimental procedures organized on the basis of functional group manipulation
• Analytical Chemistry Springboard
• Analytical Sciences Digital Library
  - a collection of web-based resources related to chemical measurements and instrumentation
• BuyersGuideChem
  - a directory of suppliers of chemicals and chemical products containing more than 90,000 product names, 170,000 supply references and 3,000 addresses
• ChemExper.com
  - search for over 600,000 products from over 400 suppliers
• Chemical Abstracts Service Standard Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Chemical Industry Home Page
  - links to industry associations. news and company websites
• Chemical Register - the online chemical buyer's guide
• Chemistry Dictionary - for Word Processors. Free from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Common Chemistry - a web resource that contains  CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) Registry Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of widespread general public interest.
• Consultants in chemistry and chemical engineering
• Depth First a chemistry related blog including a list of free chemistry databases
• Electrochemical Science and Technology Information Resource
  - contains general information about electrochemistry
• Emolecules
  - a free chemistry search engine that enables users to determine if a molecule is novel and/or commercially available
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation compiled by Brian M. Tissue of Virginia Tech
• German-English, English-German Chemistry Dictionary - compiled at Stanford University
• Glossary of terms in chemistry compiled by Frostburg State University
• InChi.info - a website devoted to the International Chemical Identifier
• IUPAC Gold Book- a chemistry dictionary
• IUPAC Nomenclature Home Page
• List of Academic Chemistry Departments in the United States and outside the United States compiled by Chuck Huber
• Organic Chemistry Portal
• Organic Syntheses Website and Database
  - free service providing detailed experimental methods for the synthesis of organic compounds.  You must have downloaded and installed the latest ChemDraw Plugin to use this service.
• Periodic Table of the Elements - Provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Periodic Table of the Elements - WebElements
• Physical Properties of Chemical Substances - this link is especially useful for Math 225 students
• Podcasts - links to history of science Podcasts provided by the Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Prices of Chemicals - from ICIS Business America formerly known as Chemical Market Reporter
• PubChem
  -  NIH's Small Molecule Repository which is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap Molecular Libraries initiative for the creation of an NIH small molecule library and screening centers.
• RdChemicals - a database of suppliers of rare organic chemicals
• Spectroscopy Now - a new online resource serving the spectroscopy community
• Structure drawing programs are available for downloading from
  • ACD Labs
  • MDL
• Synthetic Pages - a wiki-like database of organic and inorganic synthetic reactions
• Unit Converter  - can be used for chemistry and other science and engineering disciplines
• Web Reactions - an organic reaction retrieval system

Created and updated by Bruce Slutsky
Last updated August 2009