Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
: Restricted to UT-Austin
: Recommended
- Chemistry : foundations and applications. (Gale Virtual Reference)
- Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Full text access to the online edition of this well-known reference source. Updated regularly, this authoritative encyclopedia covers many aspects of chemical and process engineering, chemical industry and economics, materials science, biotechnology, and more. It is searchable by keywords, chemical names and CAS registry numbers, patent numbers, authors and affiliations.
- Science of Synthesis
- Search and view the full text of all published volumes of the 5th edition of this authoritative review series on organic synthesis methodologies, plus the entire full text of the completed 4th edition of Houben-Weyl Methoden der Organischen Chemie (1952-2003).
- Wikipedia
- This one is well known and very popular, so we list it here. But be careful about accepting everything you find there at face value -- it is created and edited by anonymous users.
UT doesn't subscribe to many online science encyclopedias yet. But we have lots of authoritative print encyclopedias.
General science and chemistry encyclopedias in print are listed on the General Chemistry pathfinder.
Specialized encyclopedias are listed on our Subject Pathfinders -- including Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Polymers & Plastics, Spectra, etc.
Dictionaries
- Acronym Finder (Wiley)
- Acronyms and Abbreviations Database (Indiana U.)
- Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors
- Open-source add-on for your word processing internal dictionary contains over 100,000 chemical terms and improves your spell-check performance.
- Dictionary of Chemistry (Oxford Reference Online)
- Glossary of Archaic Chemical Terms
- IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
- Online version of the IUPAC "Gold Book".
