Subject Librarian: Beth Turtle
Collection Development/Instruction/Online Searching/Reference

Print Resources in Hale Library

Electronic Journals:
KSU subscribes to many electronic chemistry journals. Most of the American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry journals are available online, as well as, titles from many other publishers. Electronic journals can be accessed directly from the individual record in the online catalog, or by clicking on the alphabetical list of titles

SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar is the electronic equivalent of Chemical Abstracts, 1907 to the present. Install SciFinder Scholar on your own computer.

Knovel
Electronic access to over 700 chemistry, engineering, and scientific reference handbooks, dictionaries, atlases, methods, manuals, and guides. Many are interactive allowing users to sort, filter, analyze and reorganize the data.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
This electronic version of the 4th edition of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology includes more than 1200 full text articles. Tables, figures, CAS Registry Numbers, and chemical structures appear with the articles. The articles deal with chemical substances, industrial processes, uses, fundamentals, chemical engineering processes, foods, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and fibers.

Other Databases
Depending on the area of chemistry you are researching, you may also want to search Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, Agricola, Cab, Food Science and Technology, or Textiles Technology Digest.

KSU Department of Biochemistry

KSU Division of Biology

KSU Department of Chemistry

KSU Department of Chemical Engineering

Chemfinder. This is a free service that gives synonyms, physical properties, CAS registry numbers, structures, and sources of additional information on over 75,000 substances.

• Entries include boiling point, chemical name, melting point, molecular formula, molecular weight, physical description, Chemical Abstracts registry number, RTECS reference, solubility, and links to other web sites.
• Good to use for a quick lookup of basic property information for common substances.

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Chemistry WebBook

• Provides information for over 15,000 substances
• Information in the database includes: thermochemical data (enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of combustion, heat capacity, entropy, phase transition enthalpies and temperatures, vapor pressure), reaction thermochemistry data (enthalpy of reaction, free energy of reaction), IR spectra for over 8,700 compounds, mass spectra for over 12,000 compounds, UV/Vis spectra for over 400 compounds, electronic and vibrational spectra for over 4,000 compounds, constants of diatomoic molecules, ion energetics data for over 14,000 compounds (ionization energy, appearance energy, electron affinity, proton affinity), and thermophysical property data for 16 fluids.
• Database can be searched using a chemical name, molecular formula, Chemical Abstracts registry number, molecular weight, or selected ion energetics and spectral properties.

PubChem

• Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem is organized as three linked databases: Substance, Compound and BioAssay.
• PubChem is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/molecularlibraries/)
• Provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.
• More than 8 million substance records and over 5 million unique structures.

SDBS (Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds

• Produced by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• An integrated spectral database system for organic compounds, which includes 6 different types of spectra under a directory of the compounds

Thermodex: An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks (Univ. of Texas)
Contains records for printed handbooks and compilations of thermodynamic data for chemical compounds. You can enter a type of compound and a property and ThermoDex will return a list of handbooks that might contain this data.

Index to Physical, Chemical and Other Property Data (Arizona State University Libraries)
A - Z list of physical, chemical and other properties linking to print and internet resources that contain that data.

IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data

• Over 55,000 solubility measurements, compiled from 15 volumes of the IUPAC Solubility Data Series. There are about 1300 chemical substances in the database and 4,850 systems, of which 448 have been critically evaluated. The database can be searched by contents, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula, chemical name, and author.
• concerned primarily with liquid-liquid systems

NCMS SOLV-DB (Solvents Database)
Provides physical and chemical properties of important solvents.

WebElements. Includes the periodic table and the history, description, properties, uses, and crystal structures of all elements.

Periodic Table of the Elements
Operated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

TOXNET. A group of databases (free) dealing with toxicology data and toxicology literature of chemical substances.

BRENDA – Comprehensive Enzyme Information System

• The main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community
• Enzymes are classified according to the Enzyme Commission list of enzymes. Some 3500 "different" enzymes are covered.

PDB Protein Data Bank
The single worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D structure data of large molecules of proteins and nucleic acids.

Chemistry. Extensive website of Chemistry web resources maintained by Dana Roth, Chemistry Librarian, Caltech Library System.

Introduction to Patents

What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents
Written for the ACS Joint Board-Council Committee on Patents and Related Matters to provide a brief overview of patents. Revised 2002.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides extensive patent and trademark information. This includes general information about patents, a list of U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries, how to obtain copies of U.S. and foreign patents, and searchable patent databases.

The University of Texas Library "Patents and Trademarks"

Yale University Science Libraries "Finding Patents & Standards"

Indiana University Chemical Information Sources - "SIRCH: Chemical Patent Searching"

Wichita State University -"Patent and Trademark Services at the WSU Library" – the Patent and Trademark Depository Library in Kansas

Free Patent Databases ( U.S. and Foreign)

Google Patent Search Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of over 7 million patents and patent applications made available by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)—from the 1790s to the present. It does not currently include international patents.

U.S Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Offers full-text of patents issued in the U.S. since 1976 and full-page images since 1790

European Patent Office
Offers searchable databases from patent offices in Europe, the U.S. , Japan, Canada , UK , Korea, and elsewhere around the world. Many patents are full-text and English-language abstracts are usually available from 1970.

Freepatentsonline
Download or print U.S. patents issued since US4,000,000 (1974) as PDF documents. Search by patent number, keyword, or USPTO search fields.

DEPATISnet
Especially good for German patents.

Tutorials

"Why Perform a Patent Search? - "University of Texas at Austin , McKinney Engineering Library

"Web Patent Searching Tutorial – Search by Patent Number" - University of California , San Diego Science & Engineering Library

The Seven Step Strategy for Searching Patents" - Wichita State University Ablah Library.

ACS Books Reference Style Guidelines - American Chemical Society, 2005.

ACS Style Guidelines - Created by Emily Wixson, Chemistry Library, University of Wisconsin - Madison

A Quick Guide to Citing Using the ACS Style Guide, 3rd Edition (2007) (pdf) - Created by N.J. Butkovich, Pennsylvania State University Library.

American Chemical Society

Royal Society of Chemistry