Kraemer Family Library

Library Guide to Chemistry Resources

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Kraemer Library Catalog
The online catalog that searches for books, movies and government documents at UCCS.

Course Reserves in Chemistry
This link takes you to listings of readings by course number that your professors may have put on Reserve in the Kraemer Family Library. Go to the Circulation Desk in the library to check these items out.

Finding Books Off Campus

Can't find what you are looking for in the Library? Here a few solutions:

Prospector
A Colorado state wide library catalog that includes both public and academic libraries. An excellent resource, but it will take 3-5 business days for books to arrive.

WorldCat
An international catalog that UCCS students, staff and faculty may request items not available at UCCS or in Prospector. You need an ILLiad account to request items in WorldCat. Items can take 2 weeks or more to be delivered.

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

The following encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries are found in the Reference Collection.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry: Applications, Theory, and Instrumentation REF QD71.5 .E52 2000

Encyclopedia of chemical physics and physical chemistry REF QD451 .E539 2001

Encyclopedia of inorganic chemistry REF QD148 .E53 1994

Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology REF TP9 .K54 2004

McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Chemistry REF QD5 .M36 1993

Handbooks and Dictionaries

Concise chemical and technical dictionary REF QD5 .B4 1986CRC

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics REF QD65 .H3

CRC handbook of chemistry and physics REF QD65 .H3

Facts On File Dictionary Of Chemistry REF QD5 .F33 1999 1999

Dictionary of Organic Compounds REF QD246.D5 1982

Handbook of organic chemistry REF QD251.2 .D43 1987

The Merck Index REF RS51 .M4 2001
Covers human and veterinary drugs, biologicals, natural products, agricultural compounds, commercial and laboratory chemicals and environmentally significant compounds.

Journal Literature in Chemistry

Annual Reviews 1996-
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 29 scientific disciplines.

SciFinder Scholar 1907-
SciFinder Scholar provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, the CAS Registry, Chemcat, Chemlist, and Medline. It includes citations to journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information.

Merck Index (14th edition)
An encyclopedia of biomedical information, "the Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1000 retired monographs."

ScienceDirect 1997-
Access to the Elsevier Science journal collection which consists of over 1,200 journals including approximate 735 titles that are available to UCCS in full-text format from 1997 to the present. Subjects include Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

SpringerLink 1997-
Access to the complete contents of more than 500 journals, covering a wide array of subjects, including science, technology, medicine, humanities, and economics.

Scopus
Scopus, developed by Elsevier, claims to be the most comprehensive abstracts database covering scientific, medical, technical and social sciences. It contains abstracts to more than 13,600 titles from over 4,000 international publishers. Contains access to over 26 million abstracts (going back to 1966) and 5 years of reference backfiles (building up to 10 years by 2005).

Wiley Interscience Journals
Access to scholarly journal literature in the fields of Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Education, Engineering, Law, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology.

Chemistry Resources on the Web

ChemFinder
Working from a master list of chemical compounds the ChemFinder WebServer lets you search by chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight. They also provide a list of the sites they index, a short glossary of terms used, and an excellent FAQ file for using ChemFinder.

Chemistry Toolbox
Acronyms, science dictionary, molecular mass calculator and more.

ChemWeb
This Web site is an annotated directory of Internet resources for the student or professional chemist, with links to Chemistry Departments at Colleges, usenet & listserv information, conferences, teaching resources, chemistry software, online journals, and a reference section with links to specialized chemistry databases, conversion factors, and more.

Esp@ceNet Information on patents for the European Patent Office.

Fundamental Physical Constants
A list of formulas for about three dozen physical constants, i.e., Planck Constant, Speed of Light, Avogadro Number, and Bohr Radius. In addition there are links to other useful sites, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) searchable Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty. From the Freie Universität Berlin, Chemistry Department.

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
Standardized language used to describe the science of chemistry.

Links for Chemists
Maintained at the University of Liverpool, this site lists over 5750 Chemistry resources on the web.

NIST Chemistry Webbook
The NIST Chemistry WebBook provides users with easy access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the internet. The data provided in the site are from collections maintained by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and outside contributors. Data in the WebBook system are organized by chemical species. The WebBook system allows users to search for chemical species by various means including name, chemical formula, CAS Registry number, molecular weight. Once the desired species has been identified, the system will display data for the species.

NIST Virtual Library
Comprehensive and reliable US source of information on Chemistry sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Organic Synthesis
Provides procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds including some practical methods for the preparation of specific compounds and other procedures illustrate important synthetic methods with general utility. Organic Syntheses has provided annual collections of procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds since 1921.

Organometallic hypertextbook
An informative and useful web site for those studying organometallic chemistry.

R & D Chemicals: Online Database
A database of chemical compounds that allows you to find a chemical by its molecular formula, IUPAC name, Smiles, CAS number, structure or substructure.

Rolf Claessen's Chemistry Index
This site lists free databases for the chemical researcher in addition to many other types of chemistry links.

USPTO patent databases
The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) offers access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases cover the period from January 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date.

A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements
An innovative project interpreting the periodic table through "images that explore and reflect upon the diversity of elements that comprise matter." Each of the 109 elements is accompanied by a visual image, as well as a description and history (including origin of name). The site is supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

WebElements
An interactive web site based on the periodic table of elements. Information about each element includes background, crystallography, isotope,and spectroscopy information as well as chemical, electronic, biological, and geological data. Developed by Mark Winter of the University of Sheffield, U.K. Maintained at Columbia University, this site contains a large number of links organized by topic to other chemistry sites. Very broad in scope.

WWW Chemistry Guide
A comprehensive collection of annotated links for chemists and researchers involved in organic, biochemical, computational, medicinal and/or other chemistry research.