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Major search engines | General chemistry | Analytical chemistry | Fats and oils databases etc | Journals | Other lipid links

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The Oily Press presents links to web sites of interest to lipid scientists and technologists. The first part of this list features search engines, chemistry web sites, analytical chemistry sites, lipid databases etc selected and described by Richard O. Adlof of the USDA-ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (Peoria, Illinois, USA). This list was first published as part of an article titled `Internet resources for the lipid chemist' in Lipid Technology (February, 2004, pp.29-34). A list of web sites under `Journals' was provided by Dr William W. Christie. The web sites listed under `Other lipid links' are compiled by The Oily Press.

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Google: www.google.com
A good place to start, Google indexes more of the Web than most other major search engines, and its ranking technology often enables you to identify relevant web pages quickly. In addition, Google searches documents available online, maintains an archive of millions of old web pages, and even lets you save search preferences for the future. (The archive feature is useful to find and access pages that no longer exist.)

Scirus: www.scirus.com/
Scirus, the search engine for science, covers over 135 million science-related pages, and lets you search both free sources and journal sources relevant to science, technology and medicine. Scirus retrieves peerreviewed articles (sometimes only abstracts) from access-controlled databases that most search engines do not index, lets you search for the title of a particular journal or article, and lets you save your search results and email them to a colleague.

Yahoo Science News: news.yahoo.com/
Search for the latest news articles relevant to science, technology and medicine. It has a Technology section with links to Ziff Davis, PC World, Siliconvalley.com etc. (Recently added a translation section.)

AltaVista Science News: news.altavista.com/news/cats/
Search for the latest news articles relevant to science, technology and medicine. Also search the Web for audio, video, misc. images etc.

AlltheWeb: www.alltheweb.com/
Currently searches over 3 billion web pages and is interesting because it also supports searching in 49 different languages or by a specific geographic region (Africa, Asia, Canada etc)

Vivisimo: vivisimo.com
Automatically categorizes search results into hierarchically sorted category folders, allowing you to easily explore various aspects of a particular subject and click directly through to web pages of interest.

WiseNut: www.wisenut.com/
Automatically generates categories that are semantically related to the words in your query. Cluster categories appropriate to your search are given at the top of the search results page. WiseNut also presents search results clustered by site, which allows you to link through to a list of all relevant pages on a particular web site.

Webbrain: www.webbrain.com
Helps you think in clusters by displaying a visual overview of related subjects. By positioning categories of these subjects above, beside and below the search term you inserted, it shows whether categories are related to the topic on a higher or lower level (subcategories) or in another way.

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Lipid Analysis: www.lipidlibrary.co.uk
This very useful site from Dr William W. Christie of the Lipid Analysis Unit at the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland, contains excellent, well-written articles, also links to lipid composition tables, isolation/extraction methods, and the techniques and theories of lipid analysis.

Chromatography Resources: www.netaccess.on.ca/~dbc/cic_hamilton/chrom.html
Huge! Analytical chemistry, biochemistry, chemistry education, compounds, molecular modelling and more. Under `analytical chemistry' are conferences, software, research groups, chromatography (including preparative), spectral methods and more from the theory of distillation to practical methods of separation, and quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis.

The Chromatographic Society: www.chemsoc.com/
A very, very large new site with over 3000 reviewed links to other sites! Established by the UK Royal Society of Chemistry for teachers, students and researchers, it is searchable and includes the European Internetwork for Chemistry. Ranges from libraries to databases and newsgroups. Also includes job vacancy listings, chemical timelines and an extensive photogallery!

American Chemical Society: www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html
A huge site! Searchable. Includes links to databases of chemical abstracts, desktop research tools, the mostcited and requested journal articles and patent families in chemistry, online sources for laboratory equipment and chemicals, and directories of graduate programmes in the USA and Canada. (Some resources require ACS membership, but many are free.)

American Oil Chemists' Society: www.aocs.org/member/division/analytic/links.htm
Alternatively, reach the site by going to www.aocs.org, click on AOCS Divisions, then Analytical, then Links. Provides fats and oils resources, with links to other professional societies, databases, analytical chemistry (spectroscopy, chromatography, instrumentation, extraction/derivatization methodologies/spectra), statistics, US Government sites, discussion groups and one of the most extensive listings of humour-related sites on the Internet.

Links for Chemists: www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html
From the University of Liverpool, UK, with links to over 6300 chemistry resources on the Web. Includes other chemistry departments, companies/industries, literature, libraries, newsgroups, patents, dictionaries, Government research laboratories and miscellaneous topics (from biographies to electrochemistry, to molecular modelling, chemical reactions and radioactivity).

Cyberlipids: www.cyberlipid.org/
Another site for lipid studies, including sections on methods of lipid extraction, preservation and storage, lipid oxidation, and meetings calendar.

Martindale's `Virtual' Chemistry Center www.martindalecenter.com/GradChemistry.html
A huge site with hundreds of links. Chemistry preprints, journals, organic chemistry, spectroscopy, chemical safety, dictionaries, suppliers, physical constants, calculators, language dictionaries, and many databases. Specialized (quantum mechanics, electronic structure, photon cross sections, radioactive decay), chemical/biochemical (analysis, structures, synonyms/acronyms, chiral separations, kinetics, crystals, molecular modelling). Courses/Tutorials (atoms, bonds, gas laws, stereochemistry, glassblowing). Analytical chemistry courses (microscopes, separation, HPLC, NMR, spectroscopy), plus theoretical and quantum chemistry, medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology.

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SpectroscopyNow: www.spectroscopynow.com/Spy/basehtml/SpyH/
By Wiley Publishing, including MS, NMR, IR, UV, atomic, MRI, Raman, X-ray, Chemometrics

Virtual Library: Analytical Chemistry Links: www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refanal.html
Over 90 links, from HPLC, TLC, GC, IR, NMR, MS, SEM, X-ray, electrophoresis, FT-NMR and more. From basics, troubleshooting and resources, to buffer preparation, Beer's Law, to quality assurance and standards, and `The Survival Guide to Analytical Chemistry'.

IRSLDB Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy Literature Database (S. Ataka, A. Sakamoto, M. Tasumi, Y. Morioka, I. Suzuki, eds): www.elsevier.com/pub/6/9/show/
A largely free service which lists and categorizes over 90,000 articles published from 1985 to date and covers 123 journals from top publishers. Search by name, initials, title or source publication. Years covered include 19672003, searchable by single year or range of years, by two terms and/or by a total of some 130 subjects, from amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and steroids, to methods including ATR, FT-IR, NIR and Raman, and miscellaneous concepts such as Brillouin Scattering, computer applications, crystals, macromolecules, phase transitions, polymorphism, stereochemistry, supercritical phenomena and thermochemistry.

Spectra Online: spectra.galactic.com/SpectraOnline/Default_ns.htm
Sponsored by Galactic Industries Corp, this database contains more than 26,000 IR, MS, NMR (proton, carbon and other nuclei), UV/VIS and NIR spectra. Spectra Online allows you to query the database by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), formula, spectral properties and other text parameters. (You will need to register.)

Spectroscopic Tools: www.chem.uni-potsdam.de/tools/index.html
The tools are in the form of search `wizards'. Submit ¹H or ¹³C NMR chemical shift numbers, IR wave numbers, or mass fragment data and the results page lists structural possibilities. Another screen allows you to change substituents on aromatic compounds and see the resulting change in the ¹³C NMR spectra. One link leads to a site with descriptions and spectra of deuterated solvents.

Spectral Database System (SDBS): www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/menu-e.html
On this site, sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, you can find IR, MS, ¹³C and ¹H NMR data. Total compounds covered are around 31 000, with MS (~21 800 spectra), ¹H NMR (~13 900 spectra), ¹³C NMR (~12 000 spectra), IR (~49 000 spectra), Raman (~3500 spectra), and ESR (~2000 spectra). Searchable by name, full or partial molecular formula and/or molecular weight. Structures can be saved as GIF files.

Organic Compounds Database: www.colby.edu/chemistry/cmp/cmp.html
A database with 2483 compounds compiled by Harold M. Bell at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA). Searches are by name, melting point, boiling point, formula, UV, MS. Provides density, melting point, boiling point, RI values; and MS peaks and UV absorbance values.

NIST Scientific & Technical databases: www.nist.gov/srd/analy.htm
Searchable: Includes 147 198 compounds; IR spectra (8700 compounds); MS (12 000 compounds); UV/VIS (400 compounds). Spectral, and bibliographic databases. Some searches require payment, others are free.

LC/MS: www.lcms.com/lcms_top.htm
IR spectra (8700 compounds); MS (12 000 compounds); UV/VIS (400 compounds). Supplies, training, worksheets, software, problem solvers (including MS, metabolic, isotopic, genomics, standards, and more databases).

ScienceDirect: www.sciencedirect.com
Provides online access to more than 1800 journals, representing over 4 million full-text articles. Every article is available in seamlessly linked, fully searchable HTML format, as well as paginated PDF. ScienceDirect also offers a range of email alerts, enabling you to set up personalized updates that automatically notify you of the latest article citations, search results and journal issues. Results are limited to abstracts unless you or your institute pay to subscribe.

Knovel's Productivity Tools: www.knovel.com/knovel2/default.jsp
Physical properties, critical tables, thermodynamic properties (Gibbs, Helmholz), solvent properties/safety. (Requires registration free trial 7 day access, then payment; unlimited access to selected titles.) Includes interactive graphs and data tables.

MegaConverter 2: www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/index.html
Convert just about any unit of measurement such as chemical, metric, temperature. Includes both modern and `ancient' units. Somewhat difficult to use at first.

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PROTA (Plant Species of Tropical Africa): www.prota.org/
University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. Searchable, with parts still under construction; 39 species online, 7000 plants and includes over 200,000 references.

eGroups Chromatography: groups.yahoo.com/group/chromatography
A Yahoo-based email discussion list for those using any chromatography technique. Requires registration.

History of Chemistry: classes.yale.edu/chem125a/historyindex.htm
Why study history? Highlights include Lavoisier, Liebig, Wohler, Dumas and others.

Translation: Babelfish (from AltaVista site): world.altavista.com/
Type or paste text (up to 150 words) or the URL of a web site for translation. English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Russian are included, but not all non-English 'to' and 'from' combinations are included.

History of Lipid Science: www.cyberlipid.org/history/history1.htm
From alchemist Brandt Henning in 1669, de la Salle's isolation of cholesterol in 1769, to Chevreul's `Chemistry of Lipids'; in 1823. Interesting, with a definite French twist.

IgNobel Awards: www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2003
Awarded for research that "Makes you laugh, then makes you think". Example: 1996/Chemistry: George Goble of Purdue University, for his blistering world record time for igniting a barbecue grill - three seconds - using charcoal and liquid oxygen.

Profession Jokes: www.workjoke.com/projoke26.htm
Some 50 professions are listed, including chemists, biologists, engineers and teachers.

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Highwire: highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
Links to a large number of journals, mainly with a biological bent, which are available for free access (pdf files) - other than issues from the most recent years.

Fats of Life newsletter and PUFA newsletter: www.fatsoflife.com

Free Medical Journals: www.freemedicaljournals.com
Similar to the above - access to many more journals (and the term 'medical' is used loosely to encompass nutrition, biology, etc) though not all are free.

Free chemical journals: www.chemistry.bsu.by/abc/current/fulltext.htm
A fairly esoteric list of mainly obscure journals with free access, sometimes for a limited range of years. However, it often has links to short-term offers of useful journals at commercial sites.

Royal Society of Chemistry Virtual Biological Journal: www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Index.asp
Makes available for free papers from the Royal Society of Chemistry with a biological theme, for the first month of publication only.

J. Lipid Research: www.jlr.org/
This offers the complete back issues of the journal to the first issue in 1959, with the exception of the last two years. Even the last qualification is treated liberally as you can now access all of 2002. In addition, papers in press are available as PDF files in manuscript form until published. This is a marvellous model for all other journals to emulate.

Journal of Biological Chemistry: www.jbc.org/
Read the original classic paper from Folch et al. on the extraction of lipids from 1957 (www.jbc.org/cgi/reprint/226/1/497)

Journal @rchive: www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/
Sponsored by the Japanese government with the eventual aim of making back issues of all the important Japanese scientific journals freely available on line.

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American Oil Chemists Society: www.aocs.org/.

Biochemical Society (UK) - Lipid Group: www.biochemistry.org/groups/lipid/default.htm.

DGF - German Oils and Fats Society: www.gdch.de/gdch.htm.

European Federation of the Science and Technology of Lipids: www.eurofedlipid.org/.

International Carotenoid Society: www.carotenoidsociety.org

International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids (ICBL): www.icbl.unibe.ch/

International Lecithin & Phospholipid Society: www.ILPS.org/.

International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL): www.issfal.org.uk/.

Lipidforum - Nordic Forum for Lipid Research and Technology: www.lipidforum.org/.

National Lipid Association (lipid medical professionals: www.lipid.org/

New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Oils & Fats Group: www.foodworks.co.nz/oilsfats/.

Philippine Lipid Society: www.pls.org.ph/.

Society of Chemical Industry (UK) Oils & Fats Group: www.soci.org/.

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American Soybean Association: www.soygrowers.com/.

British Association for Biofuels and Oils: www.biodiesel.co.uk.

Biofuels Association of Australia: www.biofuelsassociation.com.au.

Canadian Renewable Fuels Association: www.greenfuels.org/bioindex.html.

Canola Council of Canada: www.canola-council.org/.

Chocolate Manufacturers Association: www.nca-cma.org/.

Confectionery Manufacturers of Australia: www.candy.net.au/.

Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations (FOSFA): www.fosfa.org/

Int. Fish Oil Manufacturers'Association (IFOMA): www.iffo.org.uk/.

Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB): www.mpob.gov.my/.

National Biodiesel Board (USA): www.biodiesel.org/.

National Oilseed Processors Association, USA (NOPA): www.nopa.org/.

Oleoline, an e-marketplace for glycerine, fatty acids and oleochemicals: www.oleoline.com/.

Aarhus: www.aarhus.com/

Aromtech (Finland): www.aromtech.com/ii/en/default.html.

Avanti Polar Lipids: www.avantilipids.com/.

Britannia Food Ingredients: www.britanniafood.com/

Bunge Corporation www.bunge.com/

Bunge North America: www.bungenorthamerica.com/

Enova diacylglycerols: www.enovaoil.com/

Kao Corporation, Japan www.kao.co.jp/e/

Karshamns: www.karlshamns.com/

Martek Biosciences: www.martekbio.com/

Raisio Group: www.raisiogroup.com/

Seadragon Fish Oils Pty Ltd (New Zealand): www.seadragon.co.nz

Sigma-Aldrich: www.sigmaaldrich.com.

Statfold Seed Oils: www.statfold-oils.co.uk/

Units of Measurement - Russ Rowlett, University of North Carolina www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html.

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Heart-Health web site (Eddie Vos): www.health-heart.org

Cholesterol-and-health.com: www.cholesterol-and-health.com

International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics (THINCS): www.thincs.org

Software for fat blending, SFC etc: www.timms1.net (web site of Dr Ralph Timms).

Software to Choose Foods KIM-2: efaeducation.nih.gov/sig/kim.html (William Lands n-3 site).

Entrez journals database: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html

Biomed Central — links to open access journals, many on-line: www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals

European Union funded food research projects: www.flair-flow.com.

ISTA Mielke GmbH in Hamburg, Germany: www.oilworld.de/. News on oils and fats markets.

Japanscan Food Industry Bulletin: www.japanscan.com/ News on food and drinks products in Japan.

Lipidomics Research Center of Kansas State University, USA: www.ksu.edu/lipid/lipidomics/

Lipid Bank for the Web: lipidbank.jp/

Biodiesel Resource Page (PartsGeek web site): www.partsgeek.com/parts/biodiesel_resource_page.html

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