Chemistry Databases and E-Journals

Please Note: Access to the databases is restricted to the CCSU community.

ACS – Search all American Chemical Society Journals
Search the contents of American Chemical Society digital journals. Full-text of current and back issues available for selected titles including Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry A & B, Inorganic Chemistry, and others.

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
Online version of the classic and well-known reference originally published from 1926 - 1930 for the National Research Council. It contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. Featuring physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties, it is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Knovel Critical Tables
Contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 21,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have data for 385 common solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have data for over 15,000 compounds. Additionally, several tables make use of the interactive Equation Plotter to plot thermodynamic properties as a function of temperature.

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive
Provides full-text access to all articles published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (and its forerunner Societies) from 1841 to 2004.

SciFinder Scholar
Provides access to the CAS database Chemical Abstracts (1947-present), Registry (1957-present), and CASREACT (from journals, 1985-present; from patents, 1991-present).  Users may search by topic, author, CAS Registry Number, patent number, and CAS abstract Number.
Please Note:  SciFinder is a client/server application.  Please phone the Reference Desk (860-832-2060)  or e-mail Debbie Herman (hermand@ccsu.edu) for the password and instructions for downloading and installing the software to use this database.

Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th rev. ed.)
Originally published by Smithsonian University Press, this classic reference source comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.

New Books

For a list of the most recent acquisitions in Chemistry click here.

Print Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Handbooks

Search the Library Catalog (CONSULS)

Note: REF = Reference Dept. – Third Floor

Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (REF Q141 B528 )
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics  (REF QD65 H3)
Cleveland, Ohio: CRC Press, 1977 –
(Latest edition in Reference and earlier years in Stacks)

Dictionary of Chemistry (REF QD5 D4985)
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004

Facts On File Dictionary of Chemistry (REF QD5 F33 )
New York: Facts on File, 1999

Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary (REF QD5 C5 )
New York: J. Wiley, 1997

How To Find Chemical Information (REF QD8.5 M34)
New York: Wiley, 1998

Information Sources in Chemistry (REF QD8.5 I47 )
London; New York: Bowker-Saur, 1993

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (TP9 K54 v. 1-10)
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2004
 
McGraw Hill Dictionary of Chemistry (REF QD5 M357)
New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1997

Penguin Dictionary of  Chemistry (REF Q55 M522)
London; New York: Penguin Books, 2003

Chemistry Websites

American Chemical Society
Website of the ACS.

CCSU Dept. of Chemistry

ChIN
Produced by the Chinese National Science Digital Library, ChIN is a comprehensive directory of more than 10,000 web sites or pages of internet chemical resources carefully selected by the ChIN team.

Chmooggle (eMolecules)
Finds chemical structures by substructure or SMILES.

Selected Chemistry Web Resources (Yale University)
Gateway to internet resources maintained by the Science Libraries at Yale University.