Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Use the DOE Data Explorer to discover science, technology, and engineering data collections from the US Department of Energy.

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Chem I D plus iconChemIDplus is a free, web search system that provides access to the structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in NLM databases, including the TOXNET system. ChemIDplus also has structure searching and direct links to resources at NLM, federal agencies, U.S states, and scientific sites. The database contains more than 400,000 chemical records, of which over 300,000 include chemical structures.

 

NIST iconA wealth of chemical information can be found at The National Institute of Standards and Technology website (NIST):
Chemistry WebBook
Standard Reference Materials
Physical Reference Data
Weights and Measures
Scientific Databases
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The Technical Report Archive and Image Library ("TRAIL") is a project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. Trail Technical Report Archive and Image Library icon

 

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Google Patents
Free Patents Online
US Patent and Trademark Office
Trilateral Cooperation (US, Europe, and Japan - Patents)
What every chemistry should know about patents, ACS publication

 

PubMed icon PubMed comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide:
Center for Molecular Modeling
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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Supplemental Material for the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy

(OSU Archive, 1997 - present)

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Chemdex icon The Sheffield Chemdex-"the directory of chemistry on the WWW since 1993."   Includes: WebElements (Interactive Periodic Table), The Orbitron: a gallery of atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals, and lots more.

 

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 34 million structures from hundreds of data sources. ChemSpider icon

 

i u p a c icon     IUPAC (The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)
i u p a c gold book icon     IUPAC Gold Book (Compendium of Chemical Terminology)

 

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is a non-profit organisation whose primary role is the compilation and maintenance of the Cambridge Structural Database, a database of small molecule crystal structures. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre icon

 

 

merlot icon MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

If you are publishing articles, you should have an ORCiD Identifier.

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Federal Agency Public Access Plans

The U. of Wisconsin's Ebling Library provides up-to-date, user-friendly information on Federal Agency Public Access Compliance (arising from US OSTP Memo of February 2013 which requires open access publishing of research funded by US Gov agencies).