Research Guides: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Bruce): Getting Started

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ACS Publications This link opens in a new window
Alternate Name(s): American Chemical Society
Access to selected publications of the American Chemical Society.
ASTM Compass (ASTM International Standards) This link opens in a new window
Access to active (most current) ASTM standards documents that are updated weekly. ASTM standards provide consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services in areas such as metals, petroleum, construction, rubber, the environment and more.

Science Direct
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Access to Journals published by Elsevier
Scifinder Scholar
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An electronic version of Chemical Abstracts. It allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities from 1960 to the present.

ACD Chem Sketch
Avogadro
Avogadro is an application purely for scientists and students that have to draw three-dimensional molecular compositions that showing a molecule from every conceivable angle and perspective.
JME Molecular Editor
A Java applet which allows to draw / edit molecules and reactions (including generation of substructure queries) and to depict molecules directly within an HTML page. Editor can generate Dayligh SMILES or MDL mol file of created structures.
KnowItAll (r) Academic Edition
MarvinSketch
Advanced Chemical Structure Drawing Software
Pubchem Drawing Window
Symyx Draw

List of Resources for the iPhone or iPad
Scifinder Scholar Mobile
Can be used with any smartphone. For more information please see http://www.cas.org/products/scifindr/sfmobile/
Chemistry on Mobile Devices
A list compiled by Andrea Twiss-Brooks of the Univ of Chicago

Perry's chemical engineers' handbook -8th Edition by Editor-in-chief, Don W. Green
Call Number: Circ Desk TP151 .P45 2008
ISBN: 0071422943
Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology by Executive editor, Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz
Call Number: Ready Reference TP9 .E685 2004
ISBN: 0471484946