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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
  • AccessScience
    Online version of The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 7100+ articles; 115,000 dictionary terms; 2000 in-depth biographies; weekly updates of scientific breakthroughs and discoveries; links to related web resources. (McGraw-Hill)
    http://www.accessscience.com/


  • A Dictionary of Chemistry
    Search the full text of this Oxford University Press publication. (Oxford Reference Online)
    http://www.oxfordreference.com/


Gateways & General Resources
  • The Chemistry Society’s Network
    Learning resources; networks and societies; links to over 3,000 sites; Chemistry Society’s library, including Chembytes, their e-zine.
    http://www.chemsoc.org


  • Sheffield Chemdex
    Over 7,000 links to chemistry related sites. (University of Sheffield)
    http://www.chemdex.org


Indexes
  • Annual Reviews
    Authoritative, analytic reviews in 30 disciplines within the biomedical, physical and social sciences. Search or browse.
    http://www.annualreviews.org


  • HighWire Press, Internet Imprint of Stanford University Libraries
    Articles from over 4500 PubMed journals, including over 823,000 free full-text articles from 780 HighWire-hosted journals. Biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Search or browse.
    http://highwire.stanford.edu


Periodic Tables
  • Comic Book Periodic Table
    A fun site that shows comic book pages involving the elements. Provides access to Web Elements (see below) for scientific, technical information on the elements. (Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Kentucky)
    http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics


  • Periodic Table of Elements
    Simple periodic table with more historical and less technical information than the other sites listed here. (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
    http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic


  • A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements
    Visually stunning, provides much information, including physical and chemical data sheets. (Royal Society of Chemistry)
    http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements


  • Web Elements Periodic Table
    Great depth of information is presented at this site. (Mark Winter, University of Sheffield)
    http://www.webelements.com


Professional Associations & Organizations
  • Chemistry.org; The American Chemical Society Online
    Chemistry in the news, career services, ACS publications, educational resources (k-college), ACS activities. Provides access to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) database. (American Chemical Society)
    http://www.chemcenter.org


 

In place: March 2001; Last updated:1/22/2007
Bev Robertson, Reference Services Librarian
brobertson@mhc.edu
Renfro Library, Mars Hill College