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Elsevier Reference Works (and books)

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Topic Pages

CRC handbook of chemistry and physics (print)

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology This link opens in a new window
Chemical processes: discovery/invention, properties, production techniques, economics, environment, regulation. Includes extensive bibliographies. Access through 2024.

Lange's Handbook of Chemistry (electronic)

Access Science This link opens in a new window
Online encyclopedia and dictionary for the sciences. Includes biographies, images and animations, and videos.

CASSI
"The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource intended to support researchers and librarians who need accurate bibliographic information. This complimentary resource can be used to quickly and easily look up or confirm publication titles and abbreviations, as well as CODEN, ISBN, or ISSN codes. The CASSI database contains a listing of publications indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) since 1907."

eLS This link opens in a new window
Formerly Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, this resource from Wiley contains over 5000 peer-reviewed articles. Access through 2024.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
Major resource for chemistry research. Many capabilities it provides includes searching chemical literature, plus substance, reaction, structure searching, and property searching. Set up instructions can be found here.

ChemSpider
"ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources."
PubChem: "Explore Chemistry"
"Quickly find chemical information from authoritative sources." (National Library of Medicine)
Reliability of Wikipedia
Wikipedia article about the Reliability of Wikipedia.