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Wolfgang Schaefer, September 29, 2002
Last update: 2018-02-19
| Author | Link | Description | Resources / Evaluation |
| Wiley-VCH | Chemgapedia (English, German) | Part of e-learning suite Chemgaroo. 1700 lessons, 900 exercises, 25000 media elements | |
| iversity / Prof. Dr. Fröba (Uni Hamburg) | Crystallograpy (English) | The fascination of crystals and symmetry. This MOOC explains the basic building blocks of crystals, their symmetrical structure and introduces free software for crystal structure exploring. | free sign-up with email or facebook |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources / Evaluation |
| Mark Winter, University of Sheffield (GB), Department of Chemistry | webelements.com (English) | Interactive PTE, professional and school edition, pictures and plenty of data, history, production, etc. | |
| Ivan Noels | profmokeur.ca (English) | Interactive and printable version, pictures of most elements, basic data | |
| Robert Brenner, Tokyo | alfcen.com (English/Japanese) | PTE for Pocket PC with plenty of popup information after tap on table. The Homepage of the author contains mainly astronomic software for PocketPC and pictures from Okinawa. | Pocket PC (Compaq iPAQ or similar, StrongARM, MIPS or SH3) with Windows CE or Windows PocketPC 2002; size: 1.2 MB |
| Yinon Bentor | Chemical Elements (English) |
Interactive chart with selectable display parameter such as name, atomic mass or melting point | |
| IUPAC | IUPAC table | official chart authorized by IUPAC | |
| G. P. Moss, Queen Marry University of London | IUPAC table (b/w) | with atomic mass | |
| American Elements | americanelements.com | Interactive PTE with description (appearance, physical data), research literature and information about the applications (including nanotechnology) of the element in several handling forms and some compounds. | Data are limited to products offered by American Elements for sale (covers approximately 70% of the PTE). Page contains some dead links. |
| Lenntech (NL) | periodic chart (EN/DE/NL/FR/ES) | Interactive PTE with photos, basic data, health effects and environmental effects of the elements and some chemical compounds. | |
| University of Nottingham | Periodic
Table of Videos (English) | Interactive PTE with explanatory videos for all elements. |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources |
| Peter Wich / Germany | experimentalchemie.de (German/English) |
Collection of experiments including information about chemicals, equipment and safety instructions; collection of links | |
| Reinhard Nesper et. al., ETH Zürich and CCI-Project (Creative Chemistry on the Internet) | deix.ethz.ch (English/German) |
Lecture Inorganic Chemistry I + II: 200 experiments with video and explanation | Real, Quicktime or AVI (only online) |
| Alfred Meixner et. al., GH Siegen | pc.chemie.uni-siegen (English/German) |
41 spectacular experiments of the lecture "General Chemistry" (eg. Zn+H2O2 or Na+H2O) | MPEG-1 and GIF (download) |
| Chem 101 (a students' project) | library.thinkquest.org (English) |
Some demonstrations as hydrogen-balloon, colored flames, time reactions, electrochemistry. | Quicktime |
| Central Michigan University | cst.cmich.edu (English) |
Demonstrations with good verbal explanations. | Quicktime (very small format) |
| University of Illinois | chem.uiuc.edu (English) | Small collection of videos. | AVI or Quicktime |
| J. Gasteiger et. al., University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Computer-Chemistry-Center | chemie.uni-erlangen.de (German) |
Ten experiments for lecture "Chemistry for Medical students", eg. spectacular Thermit reaction | Real (download) |
| Gregor Fels et. al., University of Paderborn, Institute for Organic Chemistry, VSC project (Vernetztes Studium Chemie) | vs-c.de (German) | 34 videos for Organic chemistry with good quality and verbal explanation | Real (only online) |
| The Chemistry Collective by National Science Foundation | Irydium Virtual Lab (English/German/Others) | Virtual laboratory for simulation of lab experiments | Java J2SE JRE |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources |
| Guenter Gauglitz et.al, University of Tuebingen, Institute for Physical and Theoretic Chemistry, VSC project (Vernetztes Studium Chemie) | barolo.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de (German) |
Interactive simulations with phase diagrams, including McCabe-Thiele diagram | Macromedia Shockwave |
| University of Technology Braunschweig / Germany | pci.tu-bs.de (German) PC1, PC2, PC3, PC4, PC5 | Script for university course "Physical Chemistry". |
Author |
Link | Description | Resources |
| Cooperation of German universities / DBU | NOP Online | Neues (nachhaltiges) Organisch-Chemisches Grund-Praktikum |
Javascript and Chime Plugin (information to Chime on NOP homepage) |
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Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity charts and reactivity database |
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| IMS Health , Fabian Weber , G. Sedelmeier | Poster | Top 200 pharmaceutical substances with structures | available for academic use after login with GDCh membership number |
Author | Link |
Description |
Resources |
| Wolfgang Schäfer |
Triangle diagrams for additive and subtractive color mixing |
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| Physics Education Research Group, Kansas State University | phys.educ.ksu.edu (English) |
20 Simulations for non-science students: Laser, spectroscopy, tunnel effect, luminescence, ... | Macromedia Shockwave |
| Schulphysik (privat) | schulphysik.de (German) |
Multimedia and interactive content and collection of links for educational use (e.g. optical simulation) | Java applets |
| DESY | KworkQuark (German) | Information about quantum physics for students and teachers with selectable degree of difficulty, including small computer game | |
| Bernd Thaller / University of Graz (Austria) |
uni-graz.at | Award-winning project to make quantum mechanics visible |
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Author | Link |
Description |
Resources |
| Web Mathematica |
CALC
101 (EN/DE/FR/ES) | Step-by-step derivatives, linear algebra, matrix algebra, multiplication and division of polynoms | Free service (except step-by-step integrals) |
| TU Clausthal |
Java Applets (Deutsch) |
Java-Applets for visualization of statistic and stochastic topics such as interactive plots of probability distribution functions. | Java |
| University of North Carolina | Regression models (English) | University course for regression techniques | |
| Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Stochastik | Logistische Regression (Deutsch) | Exercise to logistic regression using data of the spaceshuttle Challenger explosion. | |
| NEDARC (National Emergency Medical Services for Children Data Analysis Resource Center) | Analyzing data (English) |
Using data (collecting, validation, analyzing, advanced statistical tools). Method is close to Six Sigma. | |
| Jürgen Meier | 3D (Deutsch) | 3D-graphics and mathematics. | |
| The R Foundation (Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, University Auckland) | The R Project (English) | Programming language for statistical evaluations, published in 1995. GNU R runs on all common platforms. Further information: Introduction, Graph gallery, Extensions (User Examples) , | Source Code under GNU license |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources |
| Six-Sigma-Material.com | Six Sigma Material (English) | Introduction to DMAIC Six Sigma projects and tools | |
| The OEE Foundation | OEE Industry Standard (English) | Definitions and explanations to the tool "Overall Equipment Effectiveness" (OEE) as part of the Leam toolbox | |
| Arno Koch, Blom Consultancy (OEE Toolkit) | OEE Industry Standard (English/Deutsch) | Definitions and explanations to the tool "Overall Equipment Effectiveness" (OEE) as part of the Leam toolbox. | also available as PDF document (English) |
| Viktor Bitter | OEE Help Page (Deutsch) | Tutorial for introduction and improvement of OEE measurement | |
| Solarsoft (previously: Informance) | OEE Benchmark (English) | Benchmark study of 725 global manufacturing operations (see Summary in Factory Maintenance) | |
| Citect, in: The Engineer | OEE Key (English) | OEE key to improving plant performance. Article based on edited report by Citec | |
| Shire Systems | OEE (English) | Slideshow "OEE - Sweating Manufacturing Assets" | |
| Strategos International | Lot Sizing (English) | Lot sizing and Lean manufacturing Strategy | |
| Ideation International Inc. | AFD on Ideationtriz (English) | Introduction to Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD) | |
| Triz Online | New Triz tools: AFE (Deutsch) | Kurze Einführung in die Antizipierende Fehleranalyse (AFE) / Short introduction to AFD | |
| Ford Motor Co. + Ideation Int; Triz Journal | Application of AFD (English) | V. Proseanic, D. Tananko, S. Visnepolschi: Application of AFD to an Engine Concern | |
| Ideation International Inc. | AFD Presentation (English) | 50 illustrated and entertaining pages on Anticipatory Failure Determination (Russian: Subversive Analysis) | Acrobat Reader (PDF document) |
| Kaizen-Institut | Mizusomashi (Deutsch) | Manfred Pfeiffer: Der Mizusomashi als Schlüsselfigur in der Shopfloor-Logistig; in: Kaizen-Forum 3/2006 | |
| Werner Stangl | GehirnRechtsLinks (Deutsch) | Rechte vs linke Gehirnhälfte. Hinweise zur Visualisierung. Konzentrationsübung. | |
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Nobuyuki
Kayahara Werner Stangl Michael Bach |
Silhouette
Illusion Tänzerin (Deutsch) Dancer (English) | Illusion of spinning dancer (alleged test for
preference of brain hemisphere) Angeblich Test fur Verwendung von linker oder rechter Gehirnhälfte. | Animated GIF activated Animierte GIF aktiviert |
Author |
Link | Description | Resources |
| Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. | Science Shop | Shop for scientific literature, equipment, decorative articles and toys | |
| AutoNom | MDL Crossfire Commander (to retrieve information from Beilsein information system) with AutoNom 2000 add-in (automatic naming of chemicals) |
free download after registration (not yet tested) | |
| Lehrer-Online | Naturwissenschaften (German) | Internet Service for teachers. Learning tools, digital media, animations. | |
| Sven Sommer, Flensburg, Germany | YouTeach |
Media portal with scientific and educational content. | |
| Biomed Central | Chemistry Central Journal (English) | Open-Access-Journal for chemistry and related areas. All articles are indexed by PubMed, Scopus, CAS, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Published by Chemistry Central |
free access, registration required |
| Biomed Central | JCheminf (English) | Journal of Cheminformatics, Open-Access-Journal for computer applications related to chemistry. Published by Chemistry Central |
free access, registration required |
| Creos Lernideen und Beratung (in cooperation with BASF, Evonik and other companies) | Creos Elch (German) | Interactive learning modules for professional education in the chemical and related industry. Modules available for chemical plant analytics, separation processes, preparative organic chemistry, piping technology and quality assurance. | Modules from 595 to 2975 Euro, package from 2677 to 12090 Euro (May 2010) |
| Dr. Beyer Internet-Beratung | Analytik-News (German) | Internet portal for labs with focus on analytical chemistry. Includes job offers, market for used lab equipment, discussion board and more than 8000 links to suppliers, laboratories, institutes and literature. | free access, optional registration for newsletter |
Source: Nachr. Chem. 54, 2006, 989 and 1096
| Publisher | Link | Description | Resources |
| Universität Regensburg | DBIS (German) |
Datenbankinformationssystem = data base information system. List and search machine for scientific data bases (thereof over 400 in the area of chemistry) | Free access |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources |
| Chemical Abstract Service / FIZ Karlsruhe | STN (English) |
Database catalogue of the Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe with hundreds of databases, including the famous Chemical Abstracts file | mostly paid service |
| Chemical Abstract Service / American Chemical Society | Scifinder and Scifinder Scholar (English) | SciFinder® is a research discovery tool for exploring the CAS databases that contain literature (>10000 sources, from 1907, partially from 19th century) from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, material science, agricultural science, and more. 73 million entries, 73 million substances, 67 million reactions. Access to experimental data of 6 journals of the American Chemical Society and patents. Conversion of SMILES or INCHI strings into 2-dimensional structures. Thesaurus integrated, but no trunctation. | paid service |
| Thomson Corp. | Dialog Bluesheets (English) | Catalogue with over 450 databases from a broad scope of disciplines | mostly paid service |
full list available on www.gdch.de
| Author | Link | Description | Resources |
| Thomson Corp. | SCI (Science
Citation Index) fact sheet | The Science Citation Index (SCI®) contains bibliographic information and cited references from 3,700 journals covering more than 100 disciplines. The Science Citation Index Expanded™ format, available through the Thomson Reuters Web of Science® and the online version, SciSearch®, cover more than 5,800 journals from 1900. 2.6 million substances and 1 million reactions. Index search for authors and journal names. Integratad thesaurus for british and US English. Supports hot keys *, ? (1 character) and $ (1 or no character). Online access also via DIALOG, DIMDI, and STN (see section "database hosts"). | paid service for registered users |
| Elsevier B.V. | Scopus Info (English) | Abstract and citation database of research literature (20000 journals and books from 1966, partly from 1823) and web sources. Accepts * and ? (1 character) hot keys. | free (after registration) and paid services |
| Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund | SWB (DE, EN, FR, ES) |
Onlinekatalog des Südwestdeutschen Bibliotheksverbundes (1200 Bibliotheken in Baden-Würtemberg, Saarland und Sachsen) | free access |
| Universität Karlsruhe | KVK (German, English) | Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog: Metakatalog mit 500 Millionen Medien (deutsche Verbundkataloge, nationale Kataloge, Buchhandelskataloge) | free access |
| Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | GND (German, English) | Normdatei GND für deutschsprachige Begriffe, Synonyme, Abkürzungen, Ober- und Unterbegriffe zur inhaltlichen Literaturerschließung. | |
| Universität Münster | Lotse (German) | Part of Toolbox. Guide for literature search with links to special and meta search engines. Assessment of reliability and quality of literature search. |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources |
| Frederick / Bethesda Collaboration | NCI (English) | Chemical structure lookup for 250'000 structures of organic and biochemical compounds | free access |
| Symyx | ChemInform RX (English) | 1 million chemical reactions | paid service |
| InfoChem | SPRESI ChemReact (English) | 3.6 million chemical reactions and 4.5 million structures in the field of organic chemistry | paid service (free trial) |
| CambridgeSoft Corp. | ChemFinder (English) | ChemFinder database (structures, physical properties, hyperlinks; free) and Organic Syntheses Searching (free) + paid services | free and paid services |
| Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC) | WebCSD (English, only with license) | Online portal of Cambridge Structural Database (500'000 organic and metal organic crystal structures). See also CSD product page and WebCSD product page (with free teaching and demonstration database) | paid service |
| Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) | PDB (English) |
Protein Databank with crystal structures of 29'000 proteins and nucleic acids | free access |
| Registry (English) |
25 million compounds, 53 million sequences of biopolymers; access through SciFinder or STN | paid service | |
| CASREACT (English) | 500'000 documents with 9 million chemical reactions in the organic chemistry; access through SciFinder or STN | paid service | |
| Thieme | Science of Synthesis (English) |
Full-text resource for methods in synthetic organic chemistry. Integrated access to Houben-Weyl. | paid access, free trial |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources |
| Springer-Verlag | Landolt-Börnstein (English) | Physical and physical-chemical data for 150'000 inorganic and organic compounds. For key word search use springer link with prefix "landolt+". | free access, downloads with fees |
| Detherm (English) | On STN / FIZ Karlsruhe. Set of 500 themochemical data of 20000 chemical compounds. 440000 data tables. 57000 literature references. | paid access | |
| US National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST
database catalog (English) | Collection of more than 70 fact databases. | free access |
| US National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST
Webbook (English) | Physical and spectroscopic data for chemical compounds | free access |
| US National Center for Manufacturing Sciences | Solv-DB (English) |
Physical and chemical data of 321 solvents. | free access |
| Saarland University, Germany | Nanodata (German, English, French) | Database and networking platform for nanotechnology, e.g. products, processes, suppliers, traders, research institutes | |
| Wiley | SpecInfo (English) |
Spectral database with NMR, IR and/or MS for 150000 organic compounds | paid access (free trial available) |
| National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan | SDBS (English, Japanese) |
Spectral database with MS, NMR, IR, ESR and/or Raman spectra for 32000 organic compounds | free access |
| Bio-Rad | Knowitall (English) | 1.5 million IR, UV/VIS, Rama and Stadtler spectra Chemical structure drawing (ChemWindow). | Paid access; free access for students and teacers after registration. |
| Wiley | Infotherm (English) | Thermophysical properties database for pure substances and mixtures (PVT data, phase equilibrium data, surface properties, optical properties; including data measured in former DDR and UdSSR, literature data back to 1919) | paid suscription to view full content |
| Engineering Village / Institute of Engineering and Technology | Inspec (English) | 5000 journals and books for physics, electronic and computing. from 1969. 13 million entries. Integratad thesaurus, supports hot keys *, ? (1 character) and $ (1 or no character). | paid access |
| Beuth | Perinorm (English, German, French)) | Reference databas for technical norms and regulations from 23 countries. 1.3 million entries. | paid annual license |
| RCSB | WWPDB (English) | Worldwide protein database with macromolecular structural data | free access |
| US National Library of Medicine | PubMed (English) | Free version of Medline, a medical subjects headings (MeSH)-indexed bibliographic database of medical publications (5200 journals from 1948). 23 million entries. Supports * hot key. | free access |
| Ovid SP | Biosis Previews (English) | Part of Thomson Reuters Web of Science. More than 6500 journals from 1924 in the area of biology, biomedicine and biochemistry. 13 million entries. Integrated thesaurus. Supports hot keys *, # (1 character) and ? (1 or no character). | paid access |
| Author | Link | Description | Resources | |
| Elsevier | Reaxys (Beilstein and Gmelin; English) | Database system as successor of Crossfire Commander for searching of Beilstein (physical and chemical data of 9.3 million mainly organic compounds and 2 million literature references), Gmelin (physical and chemical data of 2.2 million mainly inorganic and metal organic componds, 1.7 million chemical reactions and 1.2 million literature references) and Patent Chemistry. Literature from 1771, 21 million compounds (partly with physical-chemical properties), 35 million reactions, 4 million publications (incl. 0.7 million patents), synthesis planner. Includes Java applet MarvinSketch (from Chemaxon) as structure editor. Index search and * hot key. | Licence (over IP), anonymous access possible | |
| chemweb.com (English) | Chemistry Community: 350 journals, 15 databases, Beilstein abstracts (since 1980), NIST Chemistry WebBook (physical and chemical data), IUPAC name converter, Computational-Chemistry-Toolkit | |||
| chemfinder.com (English) | Meta database, ChemACXNet (catalogues of 30 major supplier), ChemFinder database (2D/3D structures and substance data), Synthesis planning with full access to John Wiley & Sons Organic-Synthesis-Series | |||
| Chemspider (English) | Chemical search engine based on meta database with pointers to all free and some commercial structure-, literature and fact databases related to chemical information. | open access | ||
| University of Regensburg (Germany) | uni-regensburg.de (German) | Access to 1510 online journals and 3716 journals with full-text service in Internet (124 chemistry related) | ||
| chemspy.com (English) | Search engine and register for chemical information | |||
| chemlin.de (German) | Register for chemistry related links | |||
| Commodity.com | Chemistry Links (English) | Collection of usefull and entertaining chemistry links, periodic table of elements. | ||
| University of Berlin (Germany) | fu-berlin.de (German) | Scientific documents and information | ||
| European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge | ChEBI (English) | Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a freely available dictionary of molecular eneities focused on 'small' chemical compounds. | open access | |
| The Science Lab | The-Science-Lab (English) | Chemistry resources - directory of Chemistry related websites | ||
| Yahoo | Catalogue
Chemistry (English) | Catalogue information to chemistry and related sciences. | ||
| Wiley | cheminform.com (English) | Compendium in organic synthesis. Weekly journal, CIRX reaction library with 1.8 million reactions and covers from 100 journals (including web-based Rxn reaction finder). Database SPORE for solid phase organic reactions. | paid suscription (30 days free trial) | |
| Wiley | Wiley
Online Library (Englich) | Integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 14,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Includes now also scans of Chemischer Informationsdienst (1970-1990). | Partially available with Open Access |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| Wikipedia (German / English) |
Free public edited knowledge database. | Great concept and absolutely free, but still incomplete and of inhomogeneous quality | |
| Organic
chemistry (German) | Synthesis planning tools, reaction database (including named reactions), data for 100'000 chemicals. | (not yet tested) | |
| Namensreaktionen (German) | Named reactions | (not yet tested) | |
| Chemie.de (German) | Abbreviations, unit converter, etc, | (not yet tested) | |
| Omikron (German) | Handbook for scents | (not yet tested) | |
| Thieme | Römpp (German, English) |
Encyclopedia for chemistry with 62000 entries, 200000 cross references and 12000 structures. | Paid access (also for one-time access), free trial available. |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| German Patent and Trademark Office | DEPATIS (German, English) | German patent information system | free |
| European Patent Office | Espacenet (German, English, French) |
Full text European patents, 50 million entries | free |
| US Patent and Trademark Office | USPTO (English) | Full text US patents, 4 million entries | free |
| Thomson Corp. | Derwent Innovations Index (English) | Patent records from Derwent World Patents Index and patent citation information from Patents Citation Index | paid service |
| Questel | Questel-Orbit (English) | Several IP databases, such as QPat, (end user patent searching), FamPat (patent families) and CaTaMaran (trademarks) | paid service |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| Omikron (German) | Data for chemicals | (not yet tested) | |
| Rutherford (German) | Data for chemical elements | (not yet tested) | |
| Chemidex | www.chemidex.com | Supply info of chemicals for formulators | requires free registration |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| US National Library of Medicine | TOXNET (English) | Tox- and safety data from several databases | free access, slow but good |
| Dr. Lehmann / FU Berlin | TLehmann (German) | All safety relevant information for chemistry at university institutes, including multimedia material for safety instructions | |
| BG Chemie | BG-chemie (German) | Guidelines, toxic properties of chemicals, magazine "Sichere Chemiearbeit" | |
| Merck | chemdat.merck | Safety information from the famous Merck catalogue | |
| Uni Giessen | k-MED | Safety instruction (Login: kmed.gast, Password: kmedgast) | |
| Chemie.de | chemie.de | Symbols and labels | |
| Storck-Verlag Hamburg | gefahrgut.de | Collection of links related to hazardous goods | |
| Magazine "Gefährliche Ladung" (Storck-Verlag) | gundi.info | Accident report data base GUNDI for hazardous goods | |
| IFA (Institut für Arbeitssicherheit der Deutschen Gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung) | Gestis (German, English) | Information for safe handling of dangerouus goods (8500 substances). Includes physical and chemical data and official classifications including R and S phrases of German Gefahrstoffverordnung. | Free access, also as app for iPhone and iPad |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| BMBF | Forschungsportal | Reseach in 12 million science related websites (public and deep web) | |
| German government | Bildungsserver | Catalog of websites related to education, science or research | |
| Scirus | Search engine for science related contents | ||
| Zum.de | Search engine for educational material | ||
| chemspy.com (English) | Search engine and register for chemical information | ||
| Scirus | (add link) Search engine only for scientific information (domains .edu, .org, .ac.uk, .com, .gov, Pubmed database, Arxiv.org database, dissertations) | ||
| Google Scholar | (add link) Search engine for scientific literature (books, journalsm patents) |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| SPP | Society Homepage (English) |
Homepage of Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines | |
| SPP | JPP (English) |
Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| ResearchGate | Researchgate.net (English) |
Network for natural science and humanities. Utilizes semantic techniques such as publication lists. Visualization of personal network. | |
| Nature Publishing Group | Nature Network (English) |
Network for chemical and biological science. Utilizes tags for network proposals. Contains tools such as blog. User profiles are visible to non-members. | |
| LabRoots | Labroots (English) | Network for all sciences. Utilizes semantic techniques such as publication lists for network proposals. Contains tools such as blog. | |
| Academia | Academia (English) | Organization of university institutes and departments | |
| SciLink Inc. | SciLink (English) | Online community with the goal of helping to discover scientists, authors and relationships | |
| Epernicus | Epernicus (English) |
Epernicus is a professional networking platform for research scientists. | |
| Indiana University | Laboratree (English) | Network for researchers. |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker | www.gdch.de German |
Internet offer of the German Chemical Society, includes protected member area | |
| American Chemical Society | www.acs.com (English) | Internet offer of the American Chemical Society | |
| Digitalverlag GmbH, Verden, Germany | www.chemlin.de (German and English) | All information related to chemistry: news, publications, business, job market | |
| Chemindustry | www.chemweb.com (English) |
Chemistry Community: 350 journals, 15 databases, Beilstein abstracts (since 1980), NIST Chemistry WebBook (physical and chemical data), IUPAC name converter, Computational-Chemistry-Toolkit | free access after registration |
| Chemie.de | www.chemie.de (German) |
New products, publications, jobs, market information and tools. |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| European Commission | EuroDicAutom (English and other EU languages) | Comprehensive dictionary (5.5 million entries) for all EU languages, also including chemistry terms | (not yet tested) |
| Altavista | Babelfish | Easy to use tool for translation of up to 150 words or a webpage in many languages (including Chinese and Japanese) | |
| SDL International | Freetranslation | Easy to use tool for translation of text or a webpage in many languages (including Chinese and Japanese) | |
| TU Muenchen | DICT.LEO | Link Everything Online - German/English dictionary |
| Author or Provider | Link | Description | Comment |
| Yahoo | Delicious (english) | Bookmarking service | free service |
| Mister Wong GmbH | Mister
Wong (German) | Bookmarking service | free service |
| University of Kassel, Gemany | Bibsonomy (German/English) | Sharing bookmarks and lists of literature (export to Endnote or Bibtex possible) | free service |
| Springer | Cite
U Like (English) | Sharing literature or creation of shared literature pool (either public or user groups) | free service |
| Nature Publishing Group | Connotea (English) | Sharing literature or creation of shared literature pool (either public or user groups) | free service |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie | nexxt-change (German) | Nachfolgerbörse | |
| "Die Zeit" and "Forschung & Lehre" | Academics (German) | Karriereportal der Wissenschaft |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| Chemical Register | Chemical Register (English) |
Database with search engine for 32000 products from 9000 vendors. The homepage contains also job offers and an industry related link collection. | FREE for buyers |
| Carl Roth GmbH | carlroth.de (German) | Internet shop for lab equipment and chemicals. No sales to private persons! | |
| Chemical Week | Buyers Guide (English) | Database for suppliers of chemicals. |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| ICIS | ICIS Home (English) | Chemical and Oil Industry Information and News | |
| IHS | ChemicalWeek (English) | News and analysis for chemical and related industries |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| School of Chemistry at University of Bristol | Silly Molecules (English) |
Archive of real molecules with silly names. | see also: Archive of molecules of the month |
| "Nick" (Australia) | Chemisty
Cartoons (English) | Science Cartoons (Freeware) | |
| Professor Blume (University of Bielefeld, Germany) | Zeitungsartikel (German) |
Flaws and mistakes related to Chemisty in newspaper articles | |
| The Crap Chemical Society | Unpublished
Chemisty (English) | Journal of Unpublished Chemistry (JUnChem) | last issue: 30th Jan, 2002, Vol 6 |
| Author | Link | Description | Comment |
| Adeptscience | Endnote (English/German) |
Bibliographic software for organizing references and pictures, creating bibliographies and for online search of bibliographic databases. | 206 EUR (2008, incl. VAT, single user), free demo version 30 days |
| (Open Source Software, powered by SourceForge.net) | JabRef (English) | JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. | |
| Cambridgesoft | cambridgesoft.com | ChemDraw Ultra: Drawing program for chemical structure formulas, including automatic naming; ChemOffice | 2 weeks free trial |
| Beda Kosata | BKChem (English) | Chemical drawing program. Written in Pyton. | free (GNU license) |
| Cepos In Silico | Caddle (English) | Customizable and entirely web-based molecular modeling system that offers high-quality interactive 3D-visualization combined with advanced flexible workflows and protocols for modeling tasks. | Requires only browser. Annual licence fee 38000 EUR, Universities multiple node 6300 EUR. |
| Accelrys | Discovery-Studio-Visualizer (English) | Program for visualization of structures. Includes 3D molecule editor. Export as jpg, bmp, vrml or as ActiveX plugin in Powerpoint presentations | free basic version, paid PRO version |
| Advanced Chemistry Development | ACD/Name | ACD/IUPAC naming | 995 EUR (single user university) |
| Symyx | Symyx Register and Download (no-fee products, English) | Databases and software, including MDL ISIS/Draw and MDL Chime | paid and free downloads |
| Leokrut | LeoStatistic (English) | Building histogram, curve fit, multivariate regression, data modeling software | Shareware |
| Software Solutions | PiSystems | Calculation of color and spectrum of organic chemicals | 396 EUR |
| Technische Universität Kaiserslautern | Open Enventory (English, German, Fremch, Spanish) | Laboratory journal, literature database and inventory management (with optional barcode system) | Open-Source-Freeware, Web server with PHP scripts, Java applets and SQL database runs on server, users can access with web browser |
| Xemistry | Web Sketcher (English) | Web server based structure drawing program, which does not require plug-ins or Java on the client. Connection via JavaScript to common information systems. Demo on homepage links to Wikipedia. Formats: SMILES/SMARTS, JME strings, MDL standard, ISIS Query Molfiles | Only client with JavaScript enebled web browser required, no Java or plug-ins. Free online demo with link to Wikipedia entry form. |
| (Open Source Software, LPGLV3 license, provided by ChemHack) | jsMolEditor (English) | 2D-structure editor for MOL file format, written in JavaScript for web browsers. No Java, plug-in, ActiveX or applet required on client. | Only client with JavaScript enebled web browser required, no Java or plug-ins. |
| Scienomics | Maps (English) | The "Materials and Process Simulations" is a software platform for performing materials (molecular) modeling and simulations. | free evaluation download, paid download of licensed version |
| Outokumpo | HSC Chemistry | Simulation and analysis of thermodynamic equilibriums and chemical reactions | |
| Scitouch | Indigo (English) | C++ toolkit for organic chemistry: Bingo (Search of molecules in Oracle databases), Dingo (molecule and reaction rendering library), Cano (canonical SMILES computation), Deco (R group deconvolution and scaffold detection), Nucleo (nucleotid chain handling) | free (GPL v3 license) or commercial license with additional service and extensions |
| Christoph Steinbeck | JChemPaint (English) | Open Source drawing progam for chemical structures. Can work with .mol, .cml, SMILES and common formats. Available as application or Java applet for web browsers ( Test page for Java Applet ). | free (GNU Lesser Public License) |
| Proteochemometric group at University of Uppsala (Sweden) and Chemoinformatics and Metabolism team at EBI in Cambridge | Bioclipse (English) | Bioclipse is a free and open source workbench for the life sciences, especially bioinformatics and chemoinformatic. With tools for visualization and editing of 2D and 3D structures, proteins, sequences and spectra (NMR, MS). Integrated are QSAR and a structure database. | free (open source, Eclipse Public License) |
| ACD/Labs | www.acdlabs.com (English) | Software for chromatography, spectroscopy and general applications, e.g. ChemSketch | for Windows and Palm OS; partly Freeware |