Chemistry Links

Chemistry at UNH

Online literature search resources for Chemistry at UNH
(in alphabetical order)

Analytical Abstracts -- produced by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Offers comprehensive coverage of analytical chemistry information (1978-present). You can search by analytes, matrices and by concept (techniques, physico-chemical parameters, instruments, etc.). Accessible via Analytical WebBase, this offers indexing of 230 journals, with full coverage of 50 journals, as well as selected books and other information. Abstracts and citations only.

Beilstein Crossfire -- Essential resource for research-level organic chemistry; started in 1771 as Beilstein's Handbuch der organischen Chemie. Beilstein includes data for over 8 million compounds and 5 million reactions, with citations to the primary literature. The powerful search interface allows data retrieval by structure, reaction attributes, properties, and keywords. Includes abstracts for journal articles from 1980 on. Requires special client software, Beilstein Commander, and Internet access. Computer workstations with Beilstein software are available at the Chemistry Library, or you may install the software on your on-campus computer. Click here for further information and software downloads. For non-commercial use only; use is reserved for UNH faculty, staff, and students.

Gmelin Crossfire -- Essential resource for research-level inorganic and organometallic chemistry. The Gmelin Database and Handbook online includes literature citations and data for over 1.4 million compounds, searchable by structure, reaction attributes, properties and keywords. It corresponds to the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (through 1975). Recently began including article abstracts. Requires special software, Beilstein Commander, and Internet access. Computer workstations with Beilstein software are available at the Chemistry Library, or you may install the software on your on-campus computer. Click here for further information and software downloads. For non-commercial use only; use is reserved for UNH faculty, staff, and students.

SciFinder Scholar -- this powerful, online version of the premier literature resource for chemistry, Chemical Abstracts, is available for UNH faculty, staff, and students (use for non-commercial purposes only). Special software is required. All UNH branch libraries and Dimond Library have SciFinder Scholar available on public workstations. To download the software to your on-campus computer, please see information or contact Chemistry Library staff.
Please note: to use SciFinder Scholar 2007 with Leopard: Go to the applications folder, right click or ctrl click on SciFinder Scholar application. "Get Info". Check the box "Open using Rosetta". Thanks to Susan Cardinal, Univ. of Rochester, for posting this to ChemInf-L.

Web of Science offers literature searching across disciplines by author, topic, and uniquely, by cited reference. This allows you to find journal articles that cited a known article. Searches can be limited to Science Citation Index. At "Web of Knowledge" page, select Web of Science, then choose "Full Search." After you perform a search, a list of the titles of the articles are returned. Click an article title to view the full record, which includes the title, author, bibliographic information, abstract, and more. From a full record, you can view lists of the article's references, articles that cite the article, or articles that are related to the article. There are links to library holdings, not usually to full text. Science coverage is from 1977-present; many cited references are earlier.

Chemical Reference Sources Online (For UNH community and on-campus visitors only)

Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (DIOC)
Produced by Chapman & Hall/CRC, DIOC includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of the elements plus 101,000 representative organometallic, inorganic, and coordination compounds; with names and synonyms literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. A plug-in for structure queries is available from the DIOC site. DIOC is made available by UNH Library subscription. You can use it anywhere on the UNH campus, or off-campus with a UNH ID number.

Selected free chemical information sites

ACSWeb from the American Chemical Society
C & E News (limited access)
ChemDB from the University of California at Irvine
Chemfinder
Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board: An federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents. Web site includes current and completed investigation reports, investigation digests, safety publications, recommendations, etc.
Chemistry 2000 (Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory)
Chmoogle,search with SMILES
Citing sources (in Chemistry): The best citation style resource for Chemistry is in print:
The ACS Style Guide, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2006. Copies of the 3rd and 2nd editions are available at the Chemistry Library. For more information, click here.
Related material:
A Quick Guide to Citing Using the ACS Style Guide, 3rd ed

Directory of Graduate Research from the ACS
Envirofacts Warehouse (U.S. EPA)
MSDS for UNH (CEMS)
MSDS on the Internet
NIST Chemistry WebBook
IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
United States Patent and Trademark Office
PubMed
SDBS: Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Co9mpounds-- Produced by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), this includes data for six types of spectra: EI mass spectrometry (over 20,000 compounds), hydrogen NMR, 13C NMR, FT-IR (over 49,000 spectra), and some ESR and Raman spectra. Access is freely available; users are asked to download no more than 50 spectra per day. If data is used, acknowledgement is requested, such as: SDBSWeb: http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/ [access date].
Visual Elements-- a visual periodic table from the Royal Chemical Society
WebElements -- periodic table and chemical properties
What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents

Other UNH Links

Questions or suggestions to Emily Poworoznek, Engineering and Physical Sciences Librarian. Email: el @ cisunix.unh.edu

This page last updated January 15, 2008.