Selected Chemistry & Biochemistry Links

Introduction

Chemistry Indices

General Science

General Chemistry

	Specialty Areas
Analytical Chemistry	Biochemistry	Environmental Chemistry
Crystallography	Inorganic Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry	Polymer chemistry

Chemical Literature

Chemistry Education

Chemical Industry

	Chemistry Departments
	United States	Rest of the World

MSU Resources

Chemistry Career

Miscellaneous

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Chemistry Indices

• An excellent starting point for chemical exploration.
  This site is a service of the American Chemical Society

  • ChemCenter (ACS)
    
    

• Thousands of chemistry links

  • Chemdex (University of Sheffield, UK)-Highly recommended
  • Links for Chemists (University of Liverpool, UK)
  • Chemistry Section (Yahoo!)
  • Chempointers (UCLA)
  • ChemistryWeb
  • OzChemNet (U. of New South Wales, Aus.)
    
    

• Not as comprehensive, but well designed.

  • UCSD Science and Engineering Library -- Chemistry
  • Chemistry (EINet Galaxy)
  • Rolf Claessen's Chemistry Index
  • Home Page for Chemists
  • Chemie.de English version (Germany)
  • Chemistry Information -- WWW Servers
  • Chemie.de English version (Germany)
    
    

• Standard search engines

  • Alta Vista
  • Yahoo
  • Lycos
  • Excite
  • Deja News
  • Hotbot
  • Infoseek
  • Web Crawler

General Science

• Comprehensive sites

  • SciCentral--A site with extensive science links
  • Mad Scientist Network--Scientists in many fields will answer your questions
  • Amateur Scientist Network--Includes science projects to do at home
  • Eric's Treasure Troves of Science--One man's attempt to put everything he knows about science on the web. Graphics and design are very nice.
    
    
  
  

• Multidisciplinary Science Organizations

  • National Science Foundation--A government agency for science policy and research funding. Browse the science news section.
    • The Why Files--An NSF Site that helps explain science in the news
  • National Academy of Sciences--Publishes Books and Journals. This site has many books and reports that you can read online.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science--The publisher of Science magazine. Eurekalert reports recent science news
    
    

• Science Television & Radio Shows

  • Discovery Channel--Excellent science information
  • PBS (Science)--The people who bring you NOVA and other science shows on public television
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy--A lot of fun; a lot of science
  • NPR Science Friday--A somewhat irreverent show on public radio
    
    

• Science museums

  • Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia
  • Exploratorium in San Francisco
  • Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
  • Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC
  • American Museum of Natural History in New York City--The Nature of Diamonds Exhibit is highly recommended.

General Chemistry

• American Chemical Society

  • Home Page
  • ChemCenter-The hub for chemical information
  • ACS Publications-Includes ACS journals and books
  • Chemical Abstracts-All chemistry publications are indexed here
  
  

• Chemweb

  • Home Page-An online club for chemists. You have to join to get access to the content. A commercial version of ChemCenter. Includes a chemistry magazine called The Alchemist.
  
  

• Periodic Tables

  • WebElements
  • Chemicool Periodic Table
  • Simple Periodic Table
  
  

• History of Chemistry

  • Nobel Prize Winners
  • Classic Chemistry -(Le Moyne College)
  • Classic Papers-Also has the chemist photo gallery
  • Chemical Heritage Foundation
  
  

• Databases

  • Chemfinder-Search for information on Chemical Compounds
  • NIST Chemistry WebBook
  • Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
    • Large Collection from Cornell
    • Other Sites
  
  

• FAQ from sci.chem-Wisdom derived from USENET newsgroups discussions

  • HTML Version
  • ftp version in plain text (in seven parts)
  
  

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• Index for General Chemistry Students

  • Starting points for students
  
  
  

• Online Tutorials for Introductory and General Chemistry

  These tutorials are not a substitute for reading your text, working problems and taking notes in class. They are only a supplement.
  
  

  • General Chemistry Level (CHEM 120 & CHEM 121)

    • Chemtutor
    • General Chemistry Online
    • Chemistry Tutor
    • CHEMystery
    • Chemistry Learning Center
    • Mark's Chemistry tutor-(Mark Matthews)
    • The Chem Team
    • Virtual Chemistry Textbook
    
    

  • College Chemistry or Elements of Chemistry Level (CHEM 107, CHEM 108, CHEM 111, CHEM 130)

    • General, Organic, and Biochemistry-Semester one is similar to Elements of Chemistry (CHEM 111) or College Chemistry I (CHEM 107). Semester two is similar to Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry (CHEM 130) or College Chemistry II (CHEM 108).
    • Chemistry 105 (U. Wisc. Stevens Point numbering)-On the level of Elements of Chemistry (CHEM 111).
    
    

  • Special Topic Tutorials

  • The A-E Approach to Solving General Chemistry Problems
  • VSEPR tutorial

Analytical Chemistry

• Index

  • Analytical Jumpstation
  
  

Biochemistry

Crystallography

• Index

• Crystallography World Wide




• Societies

  • American Crystallographic Association
  • International Union of Crystallography
  
  
  

Environmental Chemistry

• National Environmental Information Service
• United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Water Resources of the United States
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)

Inorganic Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

• Index

  • Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide (Georgia State University)-A very well Laid out site
  
  
  

• Molecular Modeling

  • NIH Molecular Modeling Gateway
  • Rasmol and Chemie-Rasmol is free program that allows you to display and rotate molecules on your computer. Chime is a plugin that allows you see molecules within a webpage. You will need Chime to view the following molecule collections.
    • Virtual Student Model Kit-A small collection that has most of the molecules described in the first semester Organic Chemistry.
    • Over 1,000 molecules from Okanagan University
    
    

• Online tutorials

  • IR and NMR tutorials
  
  

Physical Chemistry

• Welcome to the World of Physical Chemistry-The Wilson group at UCSD. Has excellent multimedia presentations on several physical chemistry topics.

Polymer Chemistry

Chemical Literature

• CHEMINFO - Resources compiled by Gary Wiggins at Indiana University
• NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly The National Bureau of Standards)
• Chemistry Journals
• Science & Engineering Index-Search the literature

Chemical Education

• Indices

  • Journal of Chemical Education Online-The Journal, Software, Books, and Internet articles.
  • Chemistry Teaching Resources (Umeå University, Sweden)
  • Chemed - Chemistry Education Resources
  
  

• Virginia Tech Chemistry Hypermedia Project

• Textbooks

  • Chemistry Textbooks in Print
  • Publishers List from Journal of Chemical Education

Chemical Industry

• Chemical Manufacturers Association
• Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey

MSU Links

• Sprague Library
  • LINC (Online catalog)-You must have a telnet application. Use LINC as username
• MSU Student Handbook

Career

• Career Resources from Rose-Hullman Institute of Technology - This page has an almost comprehensive list of career paths for chemists created by the faculty at Rose-Hullman institute in Indiana. There are also three links to sites with career advice to young scientists from national scientific organiazions.(National Academy of Sciences, the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, and American Chemical Society)

Miscellaneous

• College Survival Guide

• New Jersey Colleges and Universities

  • State Colleges and Universtiies
  • Research Universities
  • Private Colleges and Universities

• New Jersey Information

  • New Jersey Online -Star Ledger and Trenton Times
  • InJersey-Asbury Park Press, East Brunswick Home News Tribune, Cherry Hill Courier-Post, Parsipanny Daily Record
  • Hackensack Bergen Record
    • What Exit?-The Record's manageable set of New Jersey web links
  • inthegardenstate -Comcast Cable
  • Jersey Life
  • Official NJ State Site
  
  
  

• Montclair Township

  • Township Guide
  • Montclair Times
  • Public Library
  
  
  

• Cities near MSU

  • Essex County - links in black are not available yet

    City	Guide	Newspaper	Library
    Belleville	Township	Post	Public Library
    Bloomfield	Township	Independent Press	Public Library
    Caldwell	Borough Site 2	Paper	Public Library
    Cedar Grove	Township	Paper	Public Library
    East Orange	City	Record	Public Library
    Essex Fells	Borough	Paper	Public Library
    Fairfield	Township	Paper	Public Library
    Glen Ridge	Borough Site 2	Paper	Public Library
    Irvington	Township	Herald	Public Library
    Livingston	Township	Paper	Public Library
    Maplewood	Township	New Record	Public Library
    Millburn	Township	Paper	Public Library
    Newark	City	Star Ledger NJ Online	Public Library
    North Caldwell	Borough	Paper	Public Library
    Nutley	Township Site 2	Journal	Public Library
    Orange	City	Transcript	Public Library
    Roseland	Borough	Paper	Public Library
    South Orange	Village Township	New Record	Public Library
    Verona	Township	Paper	Public Library
    West Caldwell	Township	Paper	Public Library
    West Orange	Township	Chronicle	Public Library

  • Passaic County (Selected Municipalities) - links in black are not available yet

    City	Guide	Newspaper	Library
    Clifton	City	Paper	Public Library
    Little Falls	Township	Paper	Public Library
    Passaic	City	Paper	Public Library
    Paterson	City	Paper	Public Library
    Totowa	Borough	Paper	Public Library
    Wayne	Township	Paper	Public Library
    West Patterson	Borough	Paper	Public Library

New Jersey Colleges and Universities

New Jersey Private Colleges and Universities

• Berkeley College - Several Sites
• Bloomfield College - Bloomfield
• Caldwell College - Blackwood
• Centenary College - Hackettstown
• College of Saint Elizabeth - Morristown
• Drew University - Madison
• Fairleigh Dickinson University - Teaneck
• Felician College - Lodi
• Georgian Court College - Lakewood
• Monmouth University - West Long Branch
• Rider University - Lawrenceville
• Saint Peter's College - Jersey City

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