Chemical Information Sources/SIRCh/Deep Background Reading

SIRCh: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry

Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) of Libraries with Major Chemistry Collections

• Library of Congress
• Royal Society of Chemistry Library and Information Centre
• Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library
• Yale University Library
• University of California, Berkeley

Multisource

Credo Reference (formerly, Xrefer, the Web's reference engine) contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers, providing a single source for factual information. Sources include Oxford University Press's A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Science, A Dictionary of Scientists, and The New Penguin Dictionary of Science

Dictionaries

• IUPAC Compendium on Chemical Terminology (the Gold Book)
• OneLook Dictionary Search
• Hypertext Webster
• IUPAC Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
• Chemical Acronyms and Abbreviations Database at Indiana University
• Medicinal Chemistry Glossary

Encyclopedias

• Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia
• Britannica Online
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation
• Citizendium, The Citizens' Compendium

Publishers' Catalogs

• ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications
• RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Online Book Shop

Textbooks

• Chemical Education Resource Shelf (formerly, Chemistry Textbooks in Print Archive at the University of Missouri, St. Louis)
• Chemistry Book Lists and Guides to Serials

Monographs and Textbooks

• Amazon.com, Inc.
• Powell's Books
• Alibris -- Out-of-print and rare books
• Library4Science Free online chromatography books.