Basics

Electronic

1. AccessScience - http://www.accessscience.com/server-java/Arknoid/science/AS
2. MSDS on the web - Metasite http://www.ilpi.com/msds/#Internet
3. Sigma Aldrich - (MSDS and other info) http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/The_Americas/United_States.html
4. NIST Chemistry WebBook - http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
5. CRC online - http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/ (this is not as easy as the paper to use!)

Print

1. CRC (on Ready Reference shelves in Perkins Library)
2. Aldrich Catalog (on Ready Reference shelves in Perkins Library)
3. Merck (on Ready Reference shelves in Perkins Library)

Chemical and Physical Properties

Electronic

1. AccessScience - http://www.accessscience.com/server-java/Arknoid/science/AS
2. MSDS on the web - http://www.ilpi.com/msds/#Internet
3. CRC online - http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/ (this is not as easy as the print version to use!)
4. Sigma-Aldrich - http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/The_Americas/United_States.html

Print

1. CRC (on Ready Reference shelves in Perkins Library)
2. Aldrich Catalog (on Ready Reference shelves in Perkins Library)
3. Merck (on Ready Reference shelves in Perkins Library)

Safety Information

Electronic

1. Hazard.com http://hazard.com/msds/index.php
2. Sigma-Aldrich - http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/The_Americas/United_States.html

Journal literature

To search all journals published by the American Chemical Society: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/query/subscriberSearch.jsp

1. Choose "search journals" box.
2. Change "Author" to "Anywhere in Article" search.
3. Type in your search term. Click the "Enter" box
4. Once you choose an article, choose the PDF format. Don't just pick the first article - be different! Make it fun for those of us grading!

Searching the library catalog

• http://library.duke.edu/catalog
• To get better results, do a "Title begins with…" search instead of a "Keyword" search.
• Use the "Subject" links in a record to narrow your search.
• If you are not finding a book on your chemical in the library - use some information from the definition of your chemical to find a book - ie. - is it a reagent? A salt? An explosive? Some other thing? Then look up a book on that thing and go find it in the library, then look in the index for your chemical.

Internet

http://www.google.com