Full text and search access to American Chemical Society journals. You must either be on campus or using the VPN if off campus to connect with this content. You can also use the "Find my institution" link on the American Chemical Society site. (Spell out Worcester).
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CAS SciFinder-n is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder®, CAS SciFindern includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.
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Search 12 full text titles from American Society for Microbiology - ASM Journals Online.
Contains hundreds of peer-reviewed open access journals. BMC is dedicated to publishing the best open access journals across a portfolio of over 250 titles and are always striving to drive progress in biology, health sciences and medicine.
Current edition, includes data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds, values for fundamental physical constants, and tables needed by chemists, physicists, and engineers.
Contains over 1,000 articles on chemical substances, including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology.
Collection of critical science and engineering handbooks.(Subscription includes: Biochemistry Biology & Biotechnology; Chemistry & Chemical Engineering; Fire Protection Engineering & Emergency Response; General Engineering & Project Administration; Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering ; ASM International Materials Collection Online).
A free database that provides access to selected material safety data sheets.
National Institute of Standards and Technology provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled under the Standard Reference Data Program.
PLOS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed general biology journal published by PLOS, a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. New articles are published online weekly; issues are published monthly.
Full text access to more than 2000 Elsevier science, social science, engineering and management scholarly journals.
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, Scopus helps ensure that crucial research from around the world is not missed.
Access to thousands of scholarly science journals and eBooks published by Springer. ***Full text is available ONLY for WPI subscribed e-books and e-journals, not the full collection.
Extensive collection of bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
Search journals published by Wiley-Blackwell. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas such as chemistry, medical & life sciences, materials science and engineering.
Check out BrowZine via the Gordon Library to browse accessible and relevant journals. The library recommends keyword searching Chemistry, and then scrolling to relevant sub-disciplines. Below is a listing of a variety highly ranked chemistry-centric academic journals.
The library also recommends keyword searching Biology, and then General/ Interdisciplinary, and then scrolling to relevant sub-disciplines. Below is a listing of a variety highly ranked biology-centric academic journals.
AACT: Simulations
This page is a collection of all the simulations created by the American Association of Chemistry Teachers. Several new simulations are added each year. Every simulation is open for teachers and students to access.
ACS Middle School Chemistry: Remote Learning Assignments
Each assignment contains videos, images, and questions keyed to the ACS Middle School curriculum. Users can copy any of the Google Forms to their Google Drive to edit and use.
Aspirin Screen Experiment
Explore the chemistry of aspirin virtually with four levels of experiments, including synthesis, thin layer chromatography, and reaction conditions.
ChemCollective
The ChemCollective, organized by a group from Carnegie Mellon, shares virtual labs, simulations, and molecular level visualizations for chemistry (See “Resources by type” in site’s sidebar.) to learn and teach chemistry
ChemReaX
Users can model and simulate chemical reactions, focusing on thermodynamics, equilibrium, kinetics, and acid–base titrations, with accompanying virtual lab exercises. It is designed for high school (AP/IB) and undergraduate students and teachers.
CK–12 Chemistry Simulations
Nearly two dozen simulations cover topics like average atomic mass, solubility with rock candy, and freezing point depression with road salt.
General/Introductory Chemistry: Simulations
This page, maintained by chemistry professor William Vining, has simulations that cover a wide range of chemistry concepts.
goREACT
This drag-and-drop periodic table environment from Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry lets you experiment with different element combinations.
MERLOT Materials: Chemistry Simulations
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) at the California State University has collected descriptions and links to a huge number of chemistry simulations, with peer review ratings and comments, and information on appropriate grade levels.
Mixed Reception
This ChemCollective activity could be described as a murder mystery for chemistry students. “Interview” suspects by viewing videos, investigate the crime scene using images, and analyze evidence from the crime lab.
Molecular Workbench
Browse “showcase” chemistry simulations, with many more available in the library. It also has tools for teachers and students to create their own.
Titration Screen Experiment
Give students titration practice virtually.
PhET Interactive Simulations
PhET, based at the University of Colorado at Boulder, offers over four dozen chemistry-based simulations, many translated into different languages. Search by subject and grade level.
Professor David N. Blauch of Davidson College presents several interactive experiment simulations on topics such as equilibrium, kinetics, crystal structure, phase changes, gases, and more.
Adapted from Virtual Chemistry and Simulations - American Chemical Society (acs.org)
The B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties. Discover open textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty, meet accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).
GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources from throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
14 libraries or collections of Textbooks, Textmaps, and LibreTexts
Milne Open Textbooks (formerly OpenSUNY textbooks) publishes textbooks authored by SUNY faculty in a variety of areas.
OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books and provides services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance, and digital preservation.
Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources from OER Commons - organized by discipline and provider
A leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: All books are available to read online and download for free, including monographs and textbooks in all areas.
List of 200 free textbooks curated by the Open Culture website. No searching capabilities beyond doing a Ctl-F/Cmd-F search in your browser window.
The Open Oregon State initiative publishes textbooks authored by Oregon State faculty; also available, a list of textbooks in production.
One of the leading open textbook publishers, based at Rice University, OpenStax publishes open textbooks mainly in science, math, and social science fields.
Collection of open textbooks, many of which have been peer-reviewed, maintained and hosted by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.
This directory provides an index of 3,374 openly licensed books published across 115 Pressbooks networks.
Open textbooks are available to use, keep, revise, and share under open licenses.
The University of Minnesota publishes open textbooks authored by their faculty, mainly in the areas of business and humanities/social sciences.