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Page Contents:

Current Awareness
Reviews
Document Delivery Services
Library OPACS (Online Public Access Catalogs)
Publishers' Catalogs
Textbooks
Monographs & Multigraphs
Treatises
Theses
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias

Current Awareness

• Current-Awareness Searches in Single Files on STN (PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Multifile SDI (on STN) (PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• SMARTracker in CAS Files (PDF -Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Modifying SDI Queries on STN
• CA SELECTS and CA SELECTS PLUS
• RSC Current Awareness Products
• Current Contents (ISI)
• EurekAlert, a comprehensive news server for up-to-date research in science, medicine, and technology
  

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Reviews

• The Entire Index for Annual Reviews, Jan 1984-
• ChemKey Search Database (organic synthesis)
• Reviews in Computational Chemistry Home Page
• Bibliographic List of Review Chapters Relating to Electrochemistry (Zoltan Nagy)
• Finding Review Articles

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Document Delivery Sources

• British Library Document Supply Centre
• CAS Document Detective Service (DDS)
• Electronic Ei (Engineering International) Text
• ISI Document Delivery
• UMI's ProQuest
• INIST  Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
• ingenta

• UMI
• World Guide to Doctoral Dissertations in Science and Technology
  
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations

• Derwent International Patents Copy Service
• Micropatent
• Optipat
• Delphion
  

• Document Center (for Standards and Specifications)
• National Standards System Network
• ASTM Web Site
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Global Engineering Documents
• IHS Engineering
• TECHSTREET
  

• National Technical Information Service
  
• DOE Information Bridge
• GrayLit Network

• Internet Library Service (ANDRIGAL Ltd.)
• US-Russia Marketing Group
• Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (GPNTB)
  

• Copyright Clearance Center Online
  

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Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) of Libraries with Major Chemistry Collections

• Library of Congress
• Royal Society of Chemistry Library and Information Centre
• Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library
• Yale University Library
• University of California, Berkeley

Background Reading

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

• The BioTech Life Science Dictionary
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Hypertext Webster
• Analytical Chemistry
• IUPAC Glossary of Medicinal Chemistry
  

Encyclopedias

• Britannica Online
• Britannica Internet Guide (BIG)
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation
• Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

Publishers' Catalogs

• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
• Faxon Information on Titles
• Publishers' Catalogs Home Page at Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd
• ACS (American Chemical Society)Publications
• RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Books and Databases
• Faxon Publishers on the Internet A-M || N-Z
• Alibris -- Out-of-print and rare books
  

Textbooks

• 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 Multigraphs

• Online Bookshop (Amazon.com, Inc.) via Rolf Claessen's Chemistry Index
• Amazon.com, Inc.
• Powell's Books
  
• Library4Science Free online chromatography books.
  

Treatises

• Analytical Chemistry
• Synthetic or Reaction Chemistry
  

Theses

• Theses Link Collection Collection of links and tips on where and how to search thesis literature.
  

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