Miscellaneous World-Wide Web Resources


American Chemical Society Web Server
URL: http://www.acs.org

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
URL: http://www.aaas.org/

Australian Chemistry Network Server.
Located on the WWW Server at the Chemistry Department, University College (UNSW) at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canber ra. URL: http://apamac.ch.adfa.oz.au

Beilstein Information Systems
Product information, press releases as well as Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are featured at this site.
URL: http://www.beilstein.com

BioMedNet
An Internet club for researchers and clinicians in biology and medicine. Services include: a full-text library of biomedical publications and databases. (Membership subscription required). URL: http://www.cursci.co.uk/BioMedNet/biomed.html

Biotechnology Information Center of the National Agriculture Library (NAL-USDA). This server provides a range of biotechnology resources, selected full-text patents and legislative and regulatory information. URL: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/Biotech

Brookhaven Protein Data Bank
A major repository of 3-D structural information on biological macromolecules. This site contains atomic coordinate entries, images, the PDB newsletters as well as selected software. URL: http://www.pdb.bnl.gov

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
URL: http://csdvx2.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/csd.html
There are brief descriptions and basic search guides for QUEST, VISTA, PLUTO, and GSTAT, as well as information on how to obtain the Cambridge Structural Database.

CCOHS, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
This resource has information about CCOHS products as well as connectivity to CCINFOline. There is also a version of Carolla Christie's "Safety Related Internet Resources," covering nearly 200 other health and safety resources. URL: http://www.ccohs.ca

Chemical Abstracts Service
Information about CAS and its products, services, training and special offers. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is a significant provider of chemical information. URL: http://www.cas.org

ChemDex.
Sheffield's ChemDex provides an extensive collection of links to other chemistry WWW sites and resources.
URL: http://www2.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex

The Chemical Heritage Foundation.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation provides a comprehensive list of resources on the history of chemistry available through World Wide Web, as well as access to CHF's collections. CHF Oral Histories On-line: Abstracts and biographical information from each transcript in our oral history collection, complete with images of the interviewees. URL: http://beckman1.sas.upenn.edu/

Chemistry Index at Free University Berlin
This is an eclectic collection of resources, many of them produced at FU Berlin. Included are files on Fundamental Physical Constants, Acronyms (with emphasis on chem istry and spectroscopy), and Amino Acids (a file by name with the abbreviations and linear structural formulas).
URL: http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/index.html

CHEMNET
A part of ARInternet, ChemNet includes database access and claims to be a "shopping mall" for chemists. URL: http://www.ari.net/chemnet/chemnet.html

Computer Center of the Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki National Research Institute, Japan.
URL: http://ccinfo.ims.ac.jp

Corrosion & Protection Centre at UMIST, UK
This contains pointers to information relevant to corrosion, especially chemistry and materials sources. URL: http://www.cp.umist.ac.uk/

The Electrochemical Society, Inc.
Society information is featured including Tables of Content for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. URL: http://www.electrochem.org

EnviroWeb Billed as the world's largest environmental information archive online, the EnviroWeb is a clearinghouse project of The Enviro Link Network. It features The Virtual Environmental Library, The Internet Environmental Resource Directory, and an EnviroProducts Directory. URl: http://envirolink.org

The European Patent Office (EPO).
The EPO grants patents on behalf of its seventeen member states. The EPO's Internet services contains information on the patent granting procedure at the EPO and on the products and activities of EPIDOS.
URL:http://www.epo.co.at/epo/

Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe
FIZ is a non-profit organization set up to provide information and information services for academic and industrial research & development, as well as for business and administration. In its function as European STN Service Center, FIZ Karlsruhe offers access to more than 190 electronic databases in almost all fields of science and technology, including patents.
URL: http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/

The Federal Web Locator
With over 600 links to federal web sites, the Federal Web Locator provides the most comprehensive and easy access to information about the federal government.
URL: http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html or
URL: http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html

Fisher Scientific Chemical Catalog
The catalog features searches by chemical name, catalog number or keyword for over 2400 chemicals. It also includes MSDSs. URL: http://www.fisher1.com

Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Sintered Materials , Dresden, Germany.
http://www.ikts.fhg.de/ikts.engl.html
http://www.ikts.fhg.de (German version)
There are lots of documents containing data and publications in the area of ceramics and materials research.

IEEE Web Server
The IEEE publishes the INSPEC database. Full details of this and other IEEE publications are found on their server, previewed at: http://www.ieee.org.uk/ and: gopher.iee.org.uk

Information Retrieval in Chemistry.
To access the information, FTP to: leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (143.233.2.1) at /pub/chemistry. Note that a mirror of this source is at: ftp-chem.ucdavis.edu (128.120.7.19) at /go_chem/Index/ChemSites_ac/leon.nrcps.ariadne- t.gr. One can also gopher to gopher-chem.ucdavis.edu and follow the path Index/ChemSites_ac/leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (or search for "leon"). WWW/Mosaic to: www-chem.ucdavis.edu and select the entry "Information Retrieval in Chemistry (mirror)."

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
ISI is a database publishing company that produces a table-of-contents service (Current Contents), retrospective citation indexes ( Science Citation Index, and a document delivery service (The Genuine Article® Document Delivery).
URL: http://www.isinet.com/

Internet Directory of Biotechnology Resources
The purpose of this directory is to assist in bringing biotechnology resources on the Internet into the class room so they can be used in a problem-solving environment. Over 160 sources are included and can be found with a keyword search. URL: http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu

Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Polymer Science and Technology, a consortium of Leeds, Bradford, and Dunham Universities covering polymer chemistry, physics, and engineering. URL: http://irc.leeds.ac.uk

Knight-Ridder Information Inc.
The DIALOG WWW server provides a convenient way to find information about the DIALOG system, including many DIALOG publications that can be searched full-text, connection to DIALOG's ASAF(SM) fax document delivery system for easy ordering of many free DIALOG documents, information about products and services, and lists of Frequently Asked Questions. URL: http://www.dialog.com

Materials Science Research Database
MATSCI is a prototype WAIS database which describes various large materials science research efforts in the Southeastern United States. URL: http://www.sura.net

Molecular and BioInformation WWW sampler - a compact collection of links for Molecular Biology related resources. URL: http://www2.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/biohypertext.html

National Academy of Sciences, USA
URL: http://www.nas.edu

The National Agricultural Library.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library is an international source for agricultural information. This site provides access to NAL's resources and a gateway to its associated institutions.
URL: http://www.nalusda.gov

The Nobel Foundation
This website provides Nobel Prize announcements and has a searchable data base listing previous Nobel Laureates.
URL: http://www.nobel.se

ORBIT's WWW Server
URL: http://questel.orbit.com

Oxford Centre for Molecular Science Web Server
URL: http://nmra.ocms.ox.ac.uk/

National Toxicology Program Home Page
The NTP publishes an Annual Plan which includes current NTP work being done in carcinogenesis, toxicology, genetic toxicology, chemical disposition, etc. The "Abstracts of NTP Long-Term Cancer Studies" is a complete collectin of Technical Report Abstracts taken from the published Technical Reports of the National Cancer Institute Bioassay Program (ca. 1971-78) and its successor, the National Toxicology Program. URL: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/ntp.html

The North American Catalysis Society
"The North American Catalysis Society was founded in 1956 to promote and encourage the growth and development of the science of catalysis and those scientific disciplines ancillary thereto." Society newsletters, awards and meeting information is available at this site.
URL: http://www.dupont.com/nacs/

Polymer Internet Resources List at Phoenix Polymers Inc. A wide range of polymer links are presented from academic as well as corporate and government sites. URL: http://www.polymers.com/

Protein Science
An Internet version of the journal Protein Science is to be made available by subscription. At present, you may obtain kinemages of the illustrations in the journal. URL: http://www.prosci.uci.edu/

Polarization Spectroscopy of Ordered Systems (PSOS)
The PSOS Newsletter can be accessed at: http://frederik.ruc.dk/dis/chem/psos/psos.html

Protein Crystallographers Using Photon Factory, Japan
This has an address of protein crystallographers in Japan as well as links to other crystallographic servers. URL http://pfweis.kek.jp

Questel WWW Server
URL: http://questel.orbit.com

The Royal Society of Chemistry
The RSC server provides access to the RSC Library Online Public Access Catalogue and Publications Catalogue, educational resources plus listing contents and forthcoming articles in society journals.
URL: http://chemistry.rsc.org/rsc/

Society for Applied Spectroscopy
The SAS homepage has information on membership and titles and abstracts for papers in Applied Spectroscopy, plus related meetings /events/shortcourses. It also includes "Other Spectroscopy Related Sites." URL: http://esther.la.asu.edu/sas

SPIE, SEE: International Society for Optical Engineering in the Books section

SPINDEX, Scientific Products Information Network.
SPINDEX is a resource for researchers in molecular biology, cell biology, and immunology. URL: http://www.spindex.com/

Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Department of Chemistry Web Server.
The server provides access to online scientific papers, talks, conferences, Global Instructional Chemistry, Chemical MIME dis cussions, Hyperactive Molecules, research information in organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. URL: http://www.ic.ac.uk/

University of Texas Chemistry Library WWW Server
URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/Chem/first/mallet.html

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 Institute for Standards and Technology.
The Laboratory Programs link includes descriptions of the NIST Chemical Science and Technology and the NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratories, among others. These are also reachable through gopher to zserve.nist.gov port 76 on the path: Guide to NIST > NIST Laboratory Programs.
URL: http://www.nist.gov

U.S. National Library of Medicine Educational Technology Branch.
The ETB conducts R & D in computer and multimedia technologies. There are texts of monographs on "Authoring Systems" and "Guide lines for Designing Effective and Healthy Learning Environments for Interactive Technologies."
URL: http://wwwetb.nlm.nih.gov

U.S. National Science Foundation URL http://stis.nsf.gov

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
This site contains a selection of online publications, including two PTO pamphlets containing general information about Patents and Trademarks. URL: http://www.uspto.gov/

WebElements
URL:
http://www2.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/web-elements/home.html
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/index.html
http://chemserv.bc.edu/web-elements/web-elements-home.html
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/chem/chemistry-home.html
This includes the Periodic Table database, an Isotope Pattern Calculator, and an Element percentage calculator.

"The World, Guide to Chemistry"
URL: http://204.96.64.150:80/SCIENCE/CHEMISTR/SUBJECT.HTM

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biotechnology
URL: http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages.html

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemical Engineering
URL: http://www.che.ufl.edu/WWW-CHE/outline.html

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemistry
URL: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Crystallography
URL: http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/crystal_index.html

Science: Chemistry list at Yahoo - A Guide to WWW
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/yahoo/Science/Chemistry/

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