Chemistry Information. San Diego State University.
"Chemistry Information" is an electronic reference source cover
ing such topics as nomenclature, compound identification, proper ties,
structure determination, toxicity, synthesis, registry numbers, and synthesis.
It also provides definition of terms, meanings of acronyms, etc. To acquire
the files, FTP to:
ucssun1.sdsu.edu /pub/chemras. Use binary and the mget *.* command to transfer
all files to an IBM DOS-compatible PC. Also available via WWW at URL: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/non-local/chemis
try where it is called Chemical
Resources.
Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials
(CCIIM).
The CCIIM is jointly sponsored by the Special Libraries Associa tion Chemistry
Division and the American Chemical Society Divi sion of Chemical Information.
It includes items that have been developed by chemistry or science librarians,
chemists, and others for instruction in the use of chemical information
sources. Paper copies of most materials in the CCIIM are avail able for
the cost of reproduction, but many of the titles are also available as
ASCII or other files in the FTP archives of the Indiana University Center
for Innovative Computer Applications (gopher.cica.indiana.edu:72 or 129.79.20.27).
If using gopher, follow the path CICA Research Anonymous FTP Archives >
chem. The complete list of holdings is found in the file: cciimlst.xxx,
where xxx represents the date of the latest version. The ASCII files are
also accessible on the .
Indiana University Chemistry Library Gopher (gopher lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu)
by following the path: Subject Approach to IU Libraries and Internet Resources
> Chemistry Library Gopher.
ENZYME, The ENZYME Data Bank
This is a partial, edited transcription of the Enzyme Commis- sion's classification
of enzymes by Amos Bairoch. ftp://expasy.hcuge.ch/databases/enzyme
IUBIO Archive for Molecular Biology.
This is Don Gilbert's archive at Indiana University: FTP to fly.bio.indiana.edu
or 129.79.224.25 /molbio/chemistry/ibmpc or /molbio/chemistry/mac.
PACS, Physics and Astronomy Classification System.
PACS is the thesaurus used in Physics Abstracts. It is available via anonymous
ftp to aps.org as the file pacs_94.asc in the directory /pub/pacs. The
alphabetical index is also there as index_94.asc.
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Scientific and Technical Information Program
Internet Server. Anonymous ftp service may be found at ftp.sti.nasa.gov.
Gopher service is located on gopher.sti.nasa.gov. WWW service may be found
at URL http://www.sti.nasa.gov
For additional information, contact: postmaster@sti.nasa.gov. You will
find WAIS access to the NASA RECON database 1990-92, the NASA thesaurus,
and SCAN (Selected Current Aerospace Notices). Some SCAN topics: Chemistry
and Materials, Life Sciences, Phys ics.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Publications.
FTP to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as: nlmpubs for access to items
such as NLM Current Bibliographies in Medicine, AIDS Bibli ography, NLM
Fact Sheets, chapters of the Online Services Refer ence Manual, Toxicology
Information Program publications and others in both ASCII and PostScript
formats.