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There are plenty of web directories around,
but chemist Mike Barker, formerly of Liverpool University
and now at Helsinki University of Technology in Finland,
is one of a rare breed of webmaster. He actually keeps
his enormous categorised list well up to date. Gratifyingly,
RR gets a mention in his Chemistry Magazines section
but if you are after almost any kind of chemistry information
resource, you are likely to find it here, from publications
and webzines to chemistry departments and industrial
sites. The 'L4C' site is quite uniquely also available
in German and French, as well as English. One of the
best starting points around.
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The
team at ChemWeb is working hard to create a global community
of chemists and with well over the 150,000 membership
mark it is difficult to deny that they are succeeding.
ChemWeb provides so much for the net-surfing chemist
that it is hard to know where to start. As well as a
weekly webzine, with daily updated news, there is a
comprehensive library, access to several major databases
such as free Beilstein Abstracts and the Available Chemicals
Directory from MDL. The sense of chemical community
provided by ChemWeb is enhanced tremendously by the
Forums in analytical, catalysis and electrochemistry.
A must have for net-chemists the world over.
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Rolf
Claessen has been updating and appending this directory
of chemistry and related resources for years now, it
seems, and you can tell. The site is comprehensive with
links to countless databases, journals, jobs, web publications,
societies, software, books, patents, reactions, companies,
spectroscopy...the list goes on. The site doesn't stop
at being a directory of resources though and Claessen
provides some additional backgrounders on the likes
of Chime and VRML as well as links, of course, to various
sites using them. A great information springboard with
added value.
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You cannot have been on the web long if you haven't found New Scientist's Planet Science. The UK magazine of science news and features has been running almost as long as science writing itself and provides much, but not all, of its weekly content through the web for free. The Key Sites section provides a selection of categorised, and more importantly, reviewed web sites in almost every sphere of science. There is a new one each day and all are subsequently added to a searchable and alphabetic database for easy access. There are lots of chemical science sites as well as reviews of some of the better chemistry education sites and a few of the more weird and wonderful things out there in cyberspace.
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Chemists are always complaining about the lack of a decent chemical-oriented search engine, well this site goes at least half way to providing just such as resource. With almost 25000 listings at the time of writing, including our very own RR, there are categorised links to Industry Sectors, Equipment and Software, Chemical Data, Industry Services, Careers, Organisations, Events and Academic Institutes. If you cannot find it here, the chances are it's not worth finding.
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