Chemistry Resources on the Internet

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General lists of chemistry sites

• The most comprehensive list of chemistry-related Internet resources is The World-Wide Web Virtual Library, which can also lead you to other science-related resources.

• Trinity University Cheminformatics Site has numerous chemistry-related sites. Has hot links to all listed resources.

• Chemistry-related www sites on the Internet. This is a listing maintained by Mark Winter at the University of Sheffield.

• A local listing of more chemistry-related www sites on the Internet, including newsgroups, servers (www, ftp and gopher), databases and electronic reference materials. With hot links.

• Academic Chemistry departments in Kentucky

• Academic Chemistry departments in the United States.

• Academic Chemistry departments around the world.

• Information retrieval in Chemistry WWW server

Chemical Company Catalogs

• The WWW chemicals catalog is a searchable database (but not browsable) for these companies: Aerojet Chemical, Argus Chemicals, Bedoukian Research, Boulder Scientific Co., Carbolabs Inc., Chemsyn Science Laboratories, Conatus Co., Diaso Co., Diaz Chemical Co., Exfluor Research Co., Hampford Research Co., H&S Chemical Co., Hüls America, Inc., I. C. Trading, Jost Chemical, Lancaster Synthesis, Norquay Technology, Pressure Chemical Co., RBI Sachem, and SPS Alfachem.

• Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company

• Fisher Scientific

• Fluka Chemical Company (includes Acros Organics)

• GFS Chemicals (includes Farchan Laboratories)

• VWR Scientific

Internet Searching Sites

• Alta Vista attempts to index all of the pages on the entire web.

• Excite claims to have twice the power, has site reviews and news headlines updated every 30 minutes.

• Hotbot also claims to have more URL's.

• Lycos has a very large database of URLs.

• Webcrawler has the usual features. In addition, it has Special features that let you pull up 10 random URL's, see the top 25 sites on the Internet, numeric facts about the www and more.

• Yahoo is one of the oldest and most well-established search engines out there.

• The University of Kentucky maintains a comprehensive list of dozens of other search services.

Track your shipments!

• Airborne Express packages.

• Federal Express shipments.

• UPS shipment tracking.

• US Postal Service address/zip code lookup.

Reference Materials

• Four11 -- search for U.S. telephone listings and email addresses.

• OneLook Dictionaries -- search 121 web-based dictionaries for over 675,000 words.

• Elements of Style by William Strunk. How to write plain English, rules of usage and elementary principles of composition, common misspelled words etc.

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Search by author or keyword.

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