Research Guides: Chemistry Research Guide: Online Sources

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Online Sources

Recommended sites about chemistry.

ChemEd DL
"Here you will find exemplary digital resources, tools, and online services—your 24:7 aid for teaching and learning chemistry."
Chemical Information Sources
"The Chemical Information Sources Wikibook is a guide to the many sources of reference materials available to those with questions related to chemistry, regardless of the format."
ChemIDplus Advanced
"ChemIDplus includes links to NLM and other databases and resources, including links to federal, state and international agencies ... ChemIDplus Advanced helps users draw their own structures and perform similarity and substructure searches."
ChemIDplus Lite
"ChemIDplus includes links to NLM and other databases and resources, including links to federal, state and international agencies ... ChemIDplus Lite is designed for simple searching on name or registry. "
ChemTube3D
"ChemTube3D contains interactive 3D animations and structures, with supporting information for some of the most important topics covered during an undergraduate chemistry degree."
IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology - the Gold Book
"The Compendium is popularly referred to as the "Gold Book", in recognition of the contribution of the late Victor Gold, who initiated work on the first edition. It is one of the series of IUPAC "Colour Books" on chemical nomenclature, terminology, symbols and units (see the list of source documents), and collects together terminology definitions from IUPAC recommendations already published in Pure and Applied Chemistry and in the other Colour Books."
Organic Chemistry Portal
"The Organic Chemistry Portal offers an overview of recent topics, interesting reactions, and information on important chemicals for organic chemists."
PubChem
"PubChem, released in 2004, provides information on the biological activities of small molecules."
PubChem Search Beta
An updated user interface for PubChem.

Chemistry-related reference sources -- dictionaries, encyclopedias, and more.

Acronyms (ChemInform)
"This list of common acronyms contains more than 800 acronyms of chemical substances or fragments which have been collected from about 100 chemical journals."
Periodic Table Live! (ChemEd DL)
"Periodic Table Live! allows you to explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures, and their histories."
Periodic Table of Elements (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
An interactive version of the periodic table. "This page is being offered as a public service. We have attempted to make it as complete as possible, but it remains an imperfect resource with ambiguities and errors."

Chemistry-related associations and organizations.

American Chemical Society
"The American Chemical Society serves more than 157,000 members globally, providing educational and career development programs, products, and services."
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is the world authority on chemical nomenclature and terminology, including the naming of new elements in the periodic table; on standardized methods for measurement; and on atomic weights, and many other critically-evaluated data."
Royal Society of Chemistry
"With over 54,000 members and an international publishing and knowledge business we are the UK’s professional body for chemical scientists, supporting and representing our members and bringing together chemical scientists from all over the world."

Alternative search engines. Useful for locating specific types of sources.

CiteSeer^x
"CiteSeer^x is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science."
Congress.gov
"Presented by the Library of Congress, Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information."
FDsys (Federal Digital System)
"GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government."
Google Images
Image search from Google - either text-based or reverse image.
Google News
A news aggregator
Science.gov
"Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results."
TinEye Reverse Image Search
Reverse image search - upload an image or provide a URL to an image's online location.
USA.gov
"USA.gov is an interagency product administered by USAGov (formerly the Federal Citizen Information Center), a division of the U.S. General Services Administration's Technology Transformation Service. Our mission is to create and organize timely, needed government information and services and make them accessible anytime, anywhere, via your channel of choice."
WolframAlpha
"Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods."
Want to have fun? Look what the response is to the question "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

Lehrer, T. (1959). The elements song. Adapted and uploaded by T. Heizmann, 2008. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/zGM-wSKFBpo