Web-Accessible Chemical Compound Information

ABSTRACT

Web-accessible chemical compound information resources are widely available. In addition to fee-based resources, such as SciFinder Scholar and Beilstein, there is a wide variety of freely accessible resources such as ChemSpider and PubChem. The author provides a general description of various fee-based and free chemical compound resources. The free resources generally offer an acceptable alternative to fee-based resources for quick retrieval. It is assumed that readers will be familiar with The Merck Index, Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, and Knovel Critical Tables.

KEYWORDS:

• Beilstein crossfire
• chemfinder.com
• chemical information sources
• chemical structure lookup service
• chemical structure searching
• chemistry sources
• chemspider
• combined chemical dictionary
• discoverygate for academics
• e-molecules
• pubchem
• scifinder scholar
• SIS chemical information portal
• SPRESIweb
• wikipedia

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Dana L. Roth

Dana L. Roth ([email protected]) is Chemistry Librarian, Millikan Library, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125.