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Databases & indexes

	American Chemical Society Journals Peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences.
	Inspec (Web of Knowledge) Includes over 5 million citations from international journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, reports and books covering electronics, communications, physics, computing and information technology. Subjects: Electronics, Physics, Information Technology
	Pharmaceutical News Index (ProQuest) Provides access to the latest information on medical technology, research, and legislative developments. The database contains bibliographic information and indexing for key U.S. and international pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, medical device, and cosmetic industry newsletters.
	ScienceDirect Full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Covers a broad range of subjects in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
	SciFinder Scholar (CAS) First time users must register for web version (see below). A research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. Client version available in Science and Medical Libraries. Due to increasing popularity and significant new developments in the web version of SciFinder, CAS is to discontinue the client version of SciFinder on 31 December 2011.
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	Web of Science (Web of Knowledge) Citation databases with over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.

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Reference

• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Handbooks and manuals

Dictionaries

• Ashford's dictionary of industrial chemicals - Sci:Q Ref TP/9/AT58/2001
• Dictionary of Chemistry: Oxford Reference Online
• Dictionary of natural products - Sci:Ref QD/415/A25/DJ21
• Dictionary of organometallic compounds - Sci:Ref QD/411/DJ21/1995

Encyclopedias

• Chemical elements - Sci:Ref QD/466/NJ47
• Encyclopedia of chemical technology 4th ed 1991-1998 (Kirk-Othmer) - Sci:Q Ref TP/9/EJ7
• Encyclopedia of computational chemistry  - Sci:Ref QD/39.3/E46/EJ7 
• Encyclopedia of industrial chemical analysis -Sci:Ref QD/131/EJ7
• Encyclopedia of inorganic chemistry
• Encyclopedia of organic chemistry - Sci:Ref QD/251/EG4
• Encyclopedia of polymer science and technology

Handbooks and manuals

• ACS Style guide 3rd ed - Sci:Ref QD/8.5/A156/2006
• Aldrich handbook of fine chemicals - Sci:Q Ref TP/202/AB55/2007/08
• Aldrich Library of 13C & 1H FT NMR spectra - Sci:Ref QC/462.85/AB55
• The Beilstein guide: a manual for the use ... - Sci:Ref QD/251/B43/WD75
• Beisteins handbuch der organischen chemie - Sci:Ref QD/251/BD41/1918
• CRC handbook of chemistry and physics ed.87 - Sci:Q Ref QD/65/CG71/2006
• Handbook of environmental data on organic chemicals - Sci:Q Ref TD/196/)73/VJ47/2001
• Hazardous chemicals desk reference 5th ed - Sci:Ref T/55.3/H3/LN51
• Lange’s handbook of chemistry 15th ed – Sci:Ref QD/65/L839/1999
• Merck Index 13th ed - Sci:Q Ref QV/13/MJ24/2001
• Official methods of analysis 17th ed - Sci:Q Ref QD/78/OA2
• Polymer handbook - Sci:Ref QD/388/PS353/1999
• Spectral Database for Organic Compounds SDBS

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Web sites

• American Chemical Society
• Chemical and Other Safety Information - Safety information from the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford applicable to chemistry labs in general.
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Chemie.de - Online tools such as a molecular mass calculator in addition to news, job listings and conference dates.
• Intute: Science, Engineering, Technology -> Chemistry - Catalogue of scholarly chemistry resources on the Internet.
• Links for chemists WWW virtual library
• NDRL Radiation Chemistry Data Centre - Presents kinetic, spectroscopic, and thermodynamic data for processes in solution involving reactive intermediates.
• NIST ChemistryWebBook - Chemical and physical property data from the NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69, June 2005 Release
• Organic Syntheses - Collections of procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds.
• Intute: Physical Sciences Information gateway
• University of Otago Chemistry Department
• WebElements Periodic Table - Essential data, description, and isolation of the elements

Last revised: 13 January, 2009