Winners Circle of Web Sites: Chemistry SLA Annual Meeting June 9, 2004 A. Ben Wagner, Sciences Librarian University at Buffalo

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Google Ranking: 1-4   1. WebElements Periodic Table (Mark Winter, U. of Sheffield) [> ]   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) [ ]   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) [ ]  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 20 th  Clinical Chemistry Journal – 8 th in 2003, now >30  Martindale’s Reference Desk: Chem – 12 th in 2003, now >30

CLASSICS - NAP  National Academies Press  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 higher quality than NIST  Over 70 databases – amazing range  Annotated list -

CLASSICS – NIST2 NIST Online Scientific Databases  Data Gateway (metasearch)  Search by specific keywords, properties and substances. keywords propertiessubstanceskeywords propertiessubstances  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 Kinetics Database - 23,675 reactions

CLASSICS – NIST4  IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database Mutual solubility & liquid-liquid equilibrium Mutual solubility & liquid-liquid equilibrium Up to 4 components Up to 4 components 4,400 systems - >40,000 measurements 4,400 systems - >40,000 measurements

CLASSICS – 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 on biology oriented  Data, 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, capacity  Demand, growth, price, uses

Newly Found – Brenda Brenda Enzyme Database  Enzyme functional data  Open access for academic, non- profit 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