Winners Circle of Web
Sites: Chemistry
SLA Annual Meeting
June 9, 2004
A. Ben Wagner, Sciences Librarian
University at Buffalo
abwagner@buffalo.edu
All you need to know
 Handout,
also at:
 http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl
/guides/webpresentsla-2004.html
Google Ranking: 1-4
 1.
WebElements Periodic Table (Mark
Winter, U. of Sheffield) [>12 - 2003]
 2. WWW Chemistry Resources (Max
Kopelevich, UCLA) [2 – 2003]
 3. NIST Chemistry WebBook (U.S. Nat.
Inst. of Standards & Tech.) [4 – 2003]
 4. American Chemical Society
(Chemistry.org) [1 – 2003]
Google Ranking: 5-8
 5.
Rader's CHEM4KIDS.COM (Andrew
Rader Studios) [7 - 2003]
 6. Yahoo! Directory Science > Chemistry
[>12 – 2003]
 7. General Chemistry Online (Fred
Senese, Frostburg State U. [>12 – 2003]
 8. About.com: Chemistry (About, Inc.) [9 –
2003]
Google Ranking: 9-12
 9.
J. of Biological Chemistry (Amer. Soc.
for Biochem. & Mol. Biology) [3 - 2003]
 10. Royal Society of Chemistry home page
[5 – 2003]
 11. WWW Virtual Library: Chemistry (U. of
Liverpool Chem Dept.) [6 – 2003]
 12. Chemistry Teaching Resources (Umeå
Univ. Anal. Chem. Dept.) [11 – 2003]
Fell off 2004 Top 12 List
 Chemdex.org
– 10th in 2003, now 20th
Chemistry Journal – 8th in
2003, now >30
 Clinical
 Martindale’s
Reference Desk: Chem –
12th in 2003, now >30
CLASSICS - NAP
 National Academies
Press -
http://www.nap.edu/info/browse.htm
 Full-text
of reports & books available at
no charge from Nat. Academies of
Science, of Engineering, Institute of
Medicine, & Nat. Research Council.
CLASSICS – NIST1
NIST Online Scientific Databases
 Nothing
 Over
higher quality than NIST
70 databases – amazing range
 Annotated
list -
http://www.nist.gov/srd/online.htm
CLASSICS – NIST2
NIST Online Scientific Databases
 Data Gateway (metasearch)
http://srdata.nist.gov/gateway/
 Search
by specific keywords,
properties and substances.
 Indexes
articles from J. Chem.
Reference Data – many free full-text.
CLASSICS – NIST3
 NIST
Online Kinetics Databases
 Chemical
Kinetics Database (Gas
Phase) - 38,000 thermal reactions
 Solution
reactions
Kinetics Database - 23,675
CLASSICS – NIST4
 IUPAC-NIST
Solubility Database
http://srdata.nist.gov/solubility/
Mutual solubility & liquid-liquid
equilibrium
 Up to 4 components
 4,400 systems - >40,000
measurements

CLASSICS – Science.gov
 http://www.science.gov/
 "FirstGov
for Science" gateway.
 Metasearches reliable info from 17
governmental agencies
 Browsable directory
CLASSICS - NLM
TOXNET
 Chemical
Information “Center”
 International Toxicology Estimates for
Risk
 Haz-Map
 Household Products Database
Newly Found - DSSTox
 Distributed
Structure-Searchable
Toxicity Database Network
 New
EPA effort
 Sets single standard for tox data
 Helps migrate data to standard format
 Provides open access, structure
searching
Newly Found - Chembank
 Harvard
Medical School/Natl. Cancer
Inst.
 Bioactive
small molecules database
 Property-effect
 Data,
on biology oriented
resources, tools
Newly Found – Chemical Collective
 Carnegie
Mellon Univ. effort
 High school/early college
educational resource
 Simulations, Java applets
 Interactive experiments
 Will host teachers’ web sites
Newly Found – Chemical Profiles
 Pub.
in Chemical Marketing Reporter
 Concise
market info
 Manufacturers,
 Demand,
capacity
growth, price, uses
Newly Found – Brenda
Brenda Enzyme Database
 Enzyme
functional data
 Open access for academic, nonprofit patrons
 Searchable by name, structure,
properties, organism, etc.
Newly Found – BMRB
BMRB: BioMagResBank
 NMR
open access depository
 Peptides,
proteins, & nucleic acids.
 Software
tools incl. data conversion
Newly Found – COD
Crystallography Open Database
(No charge)
 Crystal
structure atomic coordinates
 Keyword & data element searchable
 Unpublished & published data
 Any scholar can contribute to database