CHEMISTRY

Oklahoma Baptist University                                                                                                                                                  Updated October 2003


Introduction


Looking for information about a particular chemical compound?  Need to write a paper on developments in current chemical research?  These and many other questions can be answered with the aid of the resources listed below.  If you have additional questions, ask the librarians.  They are ready to assist you in finding the information you need.


General Background Information


Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

547 M315a4

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: A Ready Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data

Ref 530 C911L76

Chemist’s Companion: A Handbook of Practical Data, Techniques, and References

Ref 542 G662c

Clinical Biochemistry: Contemporary Theories and Techniques

616.0756 C641sp

Conversion Factors

Ref 502.12 C771cf

Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics

Ref 503 B19d2

Dictionary of Organic Compounds

Ref 547.003 D554p5

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Ref 660.03 E53hg4

Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry of the United States, 1875-1955

547.009 T179e

Food Chemistry

Ref 664.07 B431f

Fundamentals of Electrochemical Science

541.37 O44fu

Guide to Basic Information Sources in Chemistry

Ref 540.7 A635g

Handbook of Forensic Science

DOC J 1.14/16:F 76/994/POCK

Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary

Ref 540.321 H396h12

Hazards in the Chemical Laboratory

Ref 542.028 H428lu5

History of Chemistry

540.9 H885hcy

Ideas in Chemistry

540.9 K69ic

Inorganic Chemistry: A Modern Introduction

546 M693in

International Encyclopedia of Chemical Science

Ref 540.3 In61

Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry

Ref 540 L274L

Mathematics in Chemistry

540.151 H447my

McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Ref 503 M147pk4

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Chemistry

Ref 540.321 M147pk

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901-1992

Ref 546.922 N744ja

Ocran’s Acronyms

Ref 501.48 O19o

Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists

Ref 630.243 O32ac

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

547.23 H884ox

Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Spectroscopy

541.28 D996qs

Russian-English Technical and Chemical Dictionary

Ref 540.3 C15r

Scientific Unit Conversion: A Practical Guide to Metrication

Ref 530.812 C266suc

Toxicological Chemistry: A Guide to Toxic Substances in Chemistry

615.9 M266tc

Von Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia

Ref 503 V26s8

Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook

Ref 540.922 W872gr

Also check the On-line Library Catalog for listings of video recordings and other materials.

Locating the Chemistry Collection

Books are arranged on the shelf by broad subject categories.  The major categories for chemistry are:

                            

540                      Chemistry & Allied Sciences

541                      Physical & Theoretical Chemistry

542                      Techniques, Equipment & Materials

543                      Analytical Chemistry

544                      Qualitative Analysis

545                      Quantitative Analysis

546                      Inorganic Chemistry

547                      Organic Chemistry

660                      Chemical Engineering

661                      Industrial Chemical Technology

Materials on chemistry are found in the following areas:

1st floor, north           Reference

1st floor, west             Periodicals/Journals

1st floor annex           Government Documents

2nd floor                      General books

3rd floor                      General books

Sources of Journal Articles

PRINT RESOURCES

General Science Index

Index Medicus

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost)

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)

Article1st (FirstSearch)

Clinical Reference Systems (EbscoHost)

FactSearch (FirstSearch)

Highwire Press

Issues and Controversies

MedLine (FirstSearch)

Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Directory (CD-ROM)

Today’s Science

USP DI V.2, Advice for the Patient (EbscoHost)

WorldCat (FirstSearch)

 

Print and microform indexes and journals are located on the 1st floor, west. 
For a complete list of journals and other periodicals owned by the library, look at Periodical Directory (http://www2.okbu.edu/library/periodcl/index.html)


Internet Resources

Online databases and indexes

EBSCOHost:       Full-text periodical database

NetLibrary:       Full-text e-book database

NewsBank:        Full text newspaper database

First Search:     Periodical and information index

WWWeb Sources

?BIOCHEM NET

http://BioChemLinks.com/belinks/belinks.cfm

 

CCSU CHEMISTRY DATABASES

http://www.chemistry.ccsu.edu/chemsrc.dbases.html

 

CHEM TEACHERS

http://www.lynx-ltd.org/chemistry/ index.html

 

CHEMCAI: INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE FOR CHEMISTRY

This site provides entry into several lists of software sources, demonstration materials and other resources of interest to Chemistry teachers and course designers.

http://www.sfu.ca:80/chemed/

 

CHEMCENTER

http://www.chemcenter.org/

 

CHEMCONNECT

http://www.chemconnect.com/library/news/journals/journals.html

 

CHEMDEX

Sheffield's ChemdexTM has existed on the WWW since 1993 and exists to maintain an international directory of chemistry on the Internet.

http://www.chemdex.org

 

CHEMFINDER

http://chemfinder.camsoft.com

 

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY HOMEPAGE

http://www.neis.com/index.html

 

CHEMICAL PATENTS PLUS!

Chemical Patents Plus offers the full text for all classes of patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 1975 to the present, including partial coverage from 1971-1974. Complete patent page images are available for patents issued from 1 January 1995.

http://casweb.cas.org/chempatplus

 

CHEMICAL PHYSICS PREPRINT DATABASE

This database is intended to provide a means for rapid and efficient preprint distribution within the international chemical physics community. This project is a joint effort by the Department of Chemistry at Brown University and the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

http://www.chem.brown.edu/chem-ph.html

 

CHEMISTRY HYPERMEDIA PROJECT

The Chemistry Hypermedia Project is exploring new ways to apply computer and network technology to help students learn chemistry, and to help educators teach chemistry.

http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/vt-chem-ed.html

 

CHEMISTRY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

http://www.nmr.utmb.edu/chemlist.html

 

CHEMSOC

The site provides interesting features and useful services for the chemistry community. The information you find has been made available by various national chemistry societies for dissemination on a single site. Currently around 30 such societies are providing varying levels of information on ChemSoc.

http://www.ChemSoc.org/

 

CHEMWEB.COM

http://www.ChemWeb.com

 

ENZYME-ENZYME NOMENCLATURE DATABASE

http://www.expasy.ch/enzyme/

 

HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL DATABASE

This database will allow the user to retrieve information for any of 1991 hazardous chemicals based on a keyword search. Potential keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS and EPA).

http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/

 

KLOTHO: BIOCHEMICAL COMPOUNDS

Klotho is part of our attempt to model biological processes, beginning with biochemistry.

http://www.ibc.wustl.edu/klotho/

 

MAKING MATTER: THE ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF MATERIALS

http://www.ill.fr/dif/3D-crystals/

 

MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS (MSDS)

http://www.phys.ksu.edu/~tipping/msds.html

 

MOLECULES FROM CHEMISTRY

http://www.ouc.bc.ca/chem/molecule/molecule.html

 

NIST CHEMISTRY WEB BOOK

A gateway to the data collections of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

http://webbook.nist.gov/

 

NOBEL PRIZE INTERNET ARCHIVE

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/nobel.html

 

PERIODIC TABLE: WEB ELEMENTS

http://www.webelements.com

 

UNDERSTANDING OUR PLANET THROUGH CHEMISTRY

This U.S.Geological Survey site shows how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to: determine the age of the Earth; show that an extraterrestrial body collided with the Earth; predict volcanic eruptions; observe atmospheric change over millions of years; and document damage by acid rain and pollution of the Earth's surface.

http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/aii-home.html

 

VIRTUAL CHEMISTRY CENTER

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/GradChemistry.html

 

WEB ELEMENTS

WebElements aims to be a high quality source of information on the WWW relating to the periodic table. Coverage is such that professional scientists and students at school will all find something useful. Currently most information is about the elements themselves but the scope of WebElements will include simple compounds as well in the future.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/

 

WEBCHEMISTRY

This index now lists over 7300 Chemistry resources on the WWW.

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/webchem/

 

WEBMOLECULES

http://www.webmolecules.com/index.shtml

 

 


 

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