Overview of Services at the Swain Library

Course Pages

Selected Bibliography

Socrates: Stanford’s Web-Based Catalog: Location: http://library.stanford.edu/socrates

Comprehensive inorganic chemistry.: Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press [1973] 5 vols.
Location: Swain Reference QD151.2 .C64
Encyclopedia of inorganic chemistry.: Chichester; New York: Wiley, c1994. 8 vols.
Location: Swain Reference QD148 .E53 1994
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.: 3rd ed. New York: Wiley, c1978-1984. 25 vols.
Location: Swain Reference TP9 .E685 1978
Online: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/kirk/ (Limited to Stanford Users)
Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.: 5th, completely rev. ed. Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany; Deerfield Beach, FL, USA: VCH, c1985-
Location: Swain Reference TP9 .U57 1985
Online: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/ueic/ (Limited to Stanford Users)

Chapman and Hall Chemical Dictionaries on CD-ROM (Inorganic & Organometallic Compounds, Organic Compounds, Natural Products): London: Chapman and Hall, 1996-
Location: on PCs and Kiosk workstations at Swain
User Aids: Manuals on reserve at Swain
Gmelin Crossfire and Beilstein Crossfire (Client/Server Product): Location: on PCs at Swain; can download software for local use
User Aids: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/collections/databases/crossfire/index.html,
http://www.info.crossfiredatabases.com/documentation.asp
Handbook of Inorganic Compounds / edited by Dale L. Perry, Sidney L. Philips.: Boca Raton: CRC Press, c1995.
Location: Swain Reference QD155.5 .H36 1995
Inorganic chemicals handbook / edited by John J. McKetta.: New York: Marcel Dekker, c1993. 2 vols.
Location: Swain Reference TP200 .I56 1993
National Institute of Standards and Technology Online Reference Databases: Location: http://www.nist.gov/srd/online.htm
Notes: Includes Physical Reference Data, NIST Chemistry WebBook, High Temp. Superconductors, and Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions.

Web of Science (SciSearch)
U.S. Patents via Community of Science (1971–): Location: http://patents.cos.com/
Notes: Includes full-text available in HTML or ASCII. Can search only 3 years at a time.

ACD’s Interactive Web Laboratory: Location: http://ilab.acdlabs.com/
User Aids: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/services/courses/chem130/faqs.html#acdilab

Molecules R Us: Protein Databank File from NIH: Location: http://molbio.info.nih.gov/cgi-bin/pdb
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Links: Location: http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/biochem.html

The ACS style guide: a manual for authors and editors / Janet S. Dodd, editor.: 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, c1997.
Location: Swain Library Reserves QD8.5 .A25 1997

Chemical information sources / Gary Wiggins.: New York: McGraw-Hill, c1991.
Location: Swain Reference Z699.5 .C5 W54 1991
Physical chemistry source book / Sybil P. Parker, editor in chief.: New York: McGraw-Hill, c1988.
Location: Swain Reference QD451 .P49 1988
Spectroscopy source book / Sybil P. Parker, editor in chief.: New York: McGraw-Hill, c1988.
Location: Swain Reference QD95 .S6368 1988
Guide to reference books / edited by Eugene P. Sheehy; with the assistance of Rita G. Keckeissen ... [et al.].: 10th ed.: American Library Association, 1986.
Location: Swain Reference Z1035.1 .S43 1986