Chemical Information Sources/SIRCh/Deep Background Reading
SIRCh: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry
Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) of Libraries with Major Chemistry Collections
[edit | edit source]- Library of Congress
- Royal Society of Chemistry Library and Information Centre
- Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library
- Yale University Library
- University of California, Berkeley
Multisource
[edit | edit source]Credo Reference (formerly, Xrefer, the Web's reference engine) contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers, providing a single source for factual information. Sources include Oxford University Press's A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Science, A Dictionary of Scientists, and The New Penguin Dictionary of Science
Dictionaries
[edit | edit source]- IUPAC Compendium on Chemical Terminology (the Gold Book)
- OneLook Dictionary Search
- Hypertext Webster
- IUPAC Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
- Chemical Acronyms and Abbreviations Database at Indiana University
- Medicinal Chemistry Glossary
Encyclopedias
[edit | edit source]- Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia
- Britannica Online
- Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation
- Citizendium, The Citizens' Compendium
Publishers' Catalogs
[edit | edit source]Textbooks
[edit | edit source]- Chemical Education Resource Shelf (formerly, Chemistry Textbooks in Print Archive at the University of Missouri, St. Louis)
- Chemistry Book Lists and Guides to Serials
Monographs and Textbooks
[edit | edit source]- Amazon.com, Inc.
- Powell's Books
- Alibris -- Out-of-print and rare books
- Library4Science Free online chromatography books.