Materials Research Society publications provide an important record of current developments in the most technologically valuable areas of materials research. The MRS Proceedings series provides a “snapshot in time” of fundamental and emerging research areas reported at MRS Spring and Fall Meetings. This series currently features over 925 print volumes, each peer-reviewed, containing subject and author indexes.
Ever wondered about what’s really in hair coloring, Silly Putty, Cheese Wiz, artificial snow, or self-tanners? Engineering News presents What’s That Stuff?, a collection of articles that gives you a look at the chemistry behind a wide variety of everyday products.
The National Library of Medicine has released the NLM Drug Information Portal. This resource provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine and to other key government agencies.
The Drug Information Portal offers a varied selection of resources and focused topics in medicine and drug-related information, with links to individual resources with drug information and summaries tailored to various audiences. General drug categories from MeSH are also included in the Drug Portal records.
Chemical Reviews is one of the most highly regarded and highest-ranked journals covering the general topic of chemistry. The mission of Chemical Reviews is to provide comprehensive, authoritative, critical, and readable reviews of important recent research in organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, theoretical, and biological chemistry. Periodic thematic issues focusing on a single theme or direction of emerging research have been published since 1985 (2000–2007 is below). Editor: Josef Michl.
Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. Since 1998, Accounts of Chemical Research has also published Special Issues, which are devoted to a single issue of unusual activity and significance (for 1998–2008 see list below). Editor: Joan S. Valentine.
Graphical abstracts of the latest developments
Natural Product Updates (NPU) provides graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry, selected from dozens of key primary journals. Coverage includes:
Graphical abstracts of new synthetic advances
Methods in Organic Synthesis (MOS) is an alerting service covering the most important current developments in organic synthesis. It is designed with the synthetic organic chemist in mind, providing informative reaction schemes and covering new reactions and new methods.
The information is available in a printed publication containing around 200 new reaction schemes each month as a text-searchable web database. The service covers such topics as:
Graphical abstracts of new developments in catalysis research
Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions is available as a monthly, printed bulletin containing around 200 graphical abstracts each month, indexed by reaction under study and by catalytic method.
Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions online contains all items published in the print publication since its launch in January 2002. Access is free to those subscribing to the print publication at the full, institutional rate. Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions offers:
The Materials Module of Mercury provides software for aiding the discovery of new pharmaceutical crystal forms. It utilizes the unique information about crystal packing in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) as a knowledge base for identifying and analyzing crystal-packing motifs. The module enables novel motif searches and analyses of the CSD that are applicable to problems such as:
ChemgaPedia is the most comprehensive curricular encyclopedia for chemistry. The German version features more than 15,000 pages with 25,000 media elements, 900 exercises as well as 3,500 glossary and biography entries for the following subjects: chemistry, biology, pharmacy, mathematics, and physics. The translation of the entire content is still in process. More than 100 learning units are currently available in English. See: ChemgaPedia overview
ChemgaPedia is the centerpiece of CHEMGAROO Educational Systems by FIZ CHEMIE Berlin.
