“This excellent Web site describes itself as an "online textbook" of atomic structure and the periodic table at the first-year college and advanced high school levels. The site is structured into six sections, each considered as a "lesson"; clicking on each of the lesson titles brings up the complete topic with a listing of subtopics. Each lesson includes illustrations, photographs, and other appropriate illustrative material.” – Choice

“Specialized Information Services (SIS), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), where ChemIDplus is located, is a free, Web-based search system that provides access to nomenclature and structure authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in NLM databases.” – Choice

“Chemistry Central is a new open-access site for chemists publishing peer-reviewed research in chemistry. Chemistry Central Journal, a brand new addition, covers all of chemistry and is broken down into discipline-specific sections. In addition, this site features chemistry-related articles found in several other open-access journals. These include the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, BMC (BioMed Central) Biochemistry, BMC Chemical Biology, BMC Structural Biology, Carbon Balance and Management, and Geochemical Transactions. All research articles published on this site undergo peer review and are made available free to all who use the World Wide Web.” – Choice

“This site is a directory of Web sites featuring information on chemistry and chemical data. The source is the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK, and the Web sites referred to are primarily UK, US, and academic.” -- Choice

"With around 159,000 members, the American Chemical Society (ACS) is still "the largest scientific society in the world." Its Web site has acquired a cleaner, improved, more sophisticated look since this reviewer examined it in 2001 (CH, Oct'01, 39-0944). Easy-to-use tabs, based on user group, run across the top of the screen: Professionals (a great deal of career information is available here), ACS Members, Educators & Students, Policy Makers, Enthusiasts, and "my.chemistry.org" (members' "personal portal" to the world of chemistry)." -- Choice

“William Newman (Indiana Univ.), a leading scholar of the history of science, has posted the contents of Newton's most complete (alchemical) laboratory notebook and the results of experiments by him and his colleagues attempting to replicate some of Newton's laboratory work. The site provides links to reference and instructional tools and general reviews of Newton and alchemy.” – Choice

“Electrochemistry is a very diverse science. There are practitioners who study batteries, corrosion, integrated circuits, chemical analysis, neurochemistry, synthesis and mechanism of reactions at anodes, and biological processes. Rarely does any one person need to be familiar with all of these, but most electrochemists, depending upon their particular specialty, need to be familiar with several of them. This Web site could be useful for those entering the field, since it offers a large number of sources of information on a variety of electrochemical topics. An online encyclopedia is a key part of the site, but this reviewer was a little disappointed to see that the articles (for a resource billed as an encyclopedia) do not cover all areas of electrochemistry.” – Choice

"This excellent Web site is maintained by the Institute of Physical Chemistry under the auspices of the National Center of Scientific Research in Athens, Greece. It enables chemists to easily access a wide variety of information concerning chemistry, related fields, and more." -- Choice

This Web site is associated with the American Chemical Society's "Chronicles of Chemistry" book series, part of which was included in the news journals Modern Drug Discovery and Today's Chemist at Work. It includes brief biographies in PDF format of some 50 20th-century chemists, and is divided into three somewhat arbitrary sections: The New Alchemy (19 chemists from the early decades of the 20th century); The Secrets of Nature (20 chemists from the post-WW II era); and The Green and the Global (14 chemists from the 1960s on).

"This authoritative site, prepared by scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is a compilation and critical evaluation of more than 22,000 line positions in photoelectron and Auger-electron spectroscopies." -- Choice

“The Visual Elements Periodic Table provides html and Flash versions of the periodic table; direct access to information about each element in html and pdf form; historical background on the periodic table, starting with Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869; and a detailed statement of copyright-related matters. Navigation within the Web site is straightforward and efficient, and Web pages load quickly (at least with broadband access). However, since the site includes a lot of material, the main page provides a useful link to a Site Overview page.” -- Choice

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