Chemistry Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: Introduction to chemistry resources.

Call number areas to browse:
QD 71-142 Analytical
QD 450-731 Physical and Theoretical
QD 146-197 Inorganic
QD 901-999 Crystallography
QD 241-441 Organic
TP Chemical Technology

Keywords to search: chemistry, analysis, bonds, elements, compounds

Subjects to search (Library of Congress): Chemistry, subjects beginning with Chemical e.g. Chemical bonds, or types of Chemistry e.g. Chemistry, Organic

Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Condensed Chemical Dictionary (REF QD5.C5 1981)
CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics (REF QD65.H3)
Van Nostrand Reinhold Encyclopedia of Chemistry (REF QD5.V37 1984)
Lange's Handbook of Chemistry (REF QD65.K36 1992)

Library Resources (r):
Computers & Applied Science Complete

AccessScience Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

American Chemical Society Full text 30 core journals in chemistry provides researchers access to information from the leading American publisher of chemical information.

Annual Reviews Full text state-of-the-art reports by experts on scholarship in the fields of science.

Highwire Press Full text scholarly journals in the sciences and medicine published by Stanford University.

Science Resource Center

Today's Science presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.

Internet Resources:
American Chemical Society with selected full text articles from their collection of "hot articles".

Periodic Table - WebElements The most complete table of elements. Contains links to data from Hydrogen, element 1 to Ununoctium, element 118, discovered in 1999, the heaviest element.

ChemFinder.com Search by chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight. Site provides a list of the sites indexed, a short glossary, and an excellent FAQ file for using ChemFinder.

ChemDex Index - The Directory of Chemistry on the World Wide Web from University of Sheffield, England.

Creative Chemistry - There are full-colour worksheets and teaching notes for fun activities suitable for a chemistry club, and over two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides for GCSE and A Level Chemistry.

General Chemistry Online An introductory, searchable guide to chemistry that includes hyper linked notes and guides for first semester chemistry, as well as articles.Chem Connect