Chemistry Reference Resources

This is a guide to finding selected Chemistry resources in the Galvin Library.  For more in-depth assistance, please contact Carol DeBiak, or consult a Reference Librarian.

Books in Chemistry

To find books on this subject, try searching the catalogs.

This list represents a sample of the reference sources available at the Galvin Library.

BASIC DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

  Academic Press Dictionary of Science and 
  Technology
  REF.Q123.A331992

Encyclopedia of Analytical Science  (10 Vols.)
REF.QD71.5.E531995

Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary
REF.QD5.C51987

Industrial Chemical Thesaurus
REF.Z695.1C5I521992

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
REF.Q123.M341994

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology   
(20 Vols.)
REF.Q121.M31997

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
REF.Q121.V31995

SPECIAL DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Callaham’s Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology
REF.QD5.C331996

Concise Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia               
REF.TP1110.C661999

Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds
REF.QD148.D531992

Dictionary of Organic Compounds    (5 Vols.)
REF.QD246.D51982

Encyclopedia of the Alkaloids
REF.QD421.G54

Encyclopedia of the Terpenoids
REF.QD416.G531982

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology    
(25 Vols.)
REF.TP9.E6851991

Snell-Ehre's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemical Analysis   (20 Vols.)
REF.QD131.E5

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry      (32 Vols.)
REF.TP9.U571985

HANDBOOKS AND DATA BOOKS

Beilstein's Handbuch der Organischen Chemie, Eds. 2-4
North of Reference Desk, behind Newspapers shelves.

Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry
REF.QD474.C651987

Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry     (8 Vols.)
REF.QD400.C651984

Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry       (5 Vols.)
REF.QD151.2C64

Comprehensive Organic Chemistry      
(6 Vols.)
REF.QD245.C651979

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry     (8 Vols.)
REF.QD411.C651982

CRC Handbook Series in Organic Electrochemistry      
(6 Vols.)
REF.QD272.E4C17

Dictionary of Organic Compounds        (15 Vols.)
REF.QD246.D51982

Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis         (19 Vols.)
REF.QD.262.R33

Gmelin's Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, ed. 8 and Metallurgie des Eisens
North of Reference Desk, behind Newspapers shelves.      (multi-volume set)

Handbook of Physical Properties of Organic Chemicals
REF.QD257.7.H3741997

Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds
REF.QD504.S7351987

Industrial Inorganic Chemicals and Products  (6 Vols.)          
REF.TP9.I53x1998

International Critical Tables    (7 Vols.)
REF.Q199.N32

IUPAC Solubility Data Series      (51 Vols.)
REF.QD543.S6629

J. Gmehling's Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Data Collection      (16 Vols.)
REF.QD503.G59

OPD Chemical Buyers Directory           
REF.TP12.O62000

Solubilities of Inorganic and Organic Compounds      
(7 Vols.)  REF.QD543.M72131979

Spectral Data

Aldrich Library of Infrared Spectra, Ed. III
REF.QD96.I5P671981

Atlas of Carbon-13 NMR Spectral Data Base
REF.QC462.C11B731979

CRC Atlas of Spectral Data and Physical Constants
for Organic Compounds, 2nd ed.
REF.QD257.7.A85x1975

EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Data Base      (4 Vols.)
REF.QC462.85.H367x1978

Organic Electronic Spectral Data       (17 Vols.)
REF.QC437.O65

Registry of Mass Spectral Data        (4 Vols.)
REF.QC454.M3S74

Click Image for Table of Contents	How to make Patent Drawings yourself REF.T223.U3L61999
Click Image for Table of Contents	The Inventor's Notebook REF.KF3114.6.G752000
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Call Numbers

These numbers serve as a guide to some of the pertinent browsing areas.  Remember that there will be appropriate books found in other areas as well.

QD; QP501-QP981; RA1190-RA1270; RM300-RM666; RS1-RS441; TP
Library of Congress Collection
(NOTE: many other types of science are also represented nearby.)

615.19; 660; 678
Dewey Collection