• IUPAC Color Books (chemical nomenclature, terminology, and symbols) online
• Chemical information for chemists: a primer [print]
• Chemical information mining: facilitating literature-based discovery [print]
• How to find chemical information: a guide for practicing chemists, educators, and students [print]

Organic & organometallic chemical data

Databases

• Reaxys
• Cambridge Structural Database

Books

• CRC handbook of data on organic compounds [print]
• Handbook of organic chemistry [print]
• Names, synonyms, and structures of organic compounds [print]
• Physico-chemical constants of pure organic compounds [print]
• Systematic identification of organic compounds [print]

Inorganic chemical data

Databases

• Reaxys
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
• Powder Diffraction File (PDF4+)

Books

• Inorganic materials chemistry desk reference
• CRC handbook series in inorganic electrochemistry [print]
• Elements [print]
• Handbook of inorganic compounds [print]
• Physical properties of inorganic compounds [print]
• Thermochemical properties of inorganic substances [print]

Reactions and reaction mechanisms

• Comprehensive organic functional group transformations II [print]
• Handbook of organic analytical reagents [print]
• Inorganic reactions and methods [print]
• Name reactions: a collection of detailed reaction mechanisms [online or print]
• Name reactions and reagents in organic synthesis [print]
• Named organic reactions [print]
• Organic reaction mechanisms [print]
• Organic reactions [print]
• Purification of laboratory chemicals [print]
• Preparative inorganic reactions[print]

Synthesis

• Organic syntheses: an annual publication of satisfactory methods for the preparation of organic chemicals
• Compendium of organic synthetic methods [print]
• Comprehensive organic synthesis: selectivity, strategy & efficiency in modern organic chemistry [print]
• Encyclopedia of reagents for organic synthesis [print]
• Fieser and Fieser's reagents for organic synthesis [print]
• Handbook of reagents for organic synthesis [print]
• Inorganic syntheses [print]
• Synthetic methods of organometallic and inorganic chemistry [print]
• Theilheimer's synthetic methods of organic chemistry [print]
• Total synthesis of natural products [print]

Diffraction

• Cambridge Structural Database
• Powder Diffraction File (PDF-4+)

Spectra

Databases

• Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)
• MetFrag (Metabolite Mass Spectra Database)
• Metlin (Metabolite and Tandem Mass Spec Database)
• Reaxys

Books

• Absorption spectra in the ultraviolet and visible region [print]
• Aldrich library of 13C and 1H FT NMR spectra [print]
• Aldrich library of FT-IR spectra [print]
• Atlas of carbon-13 NMR data [print]
• Atlas of spectral data and physical constants for organic compounds [print]
• CRC handbook of chromatography [print]
• CRC handbook of chemistry and physics [online or print]
• EPA/NIH mass spectral data base [print]
• Handbook of NMR spectral parameters [print]
• Handbook of organic compounds: NIR, IR, Raman, and UV-Vis spectra featuring polymers and surfactants [print]
• Handbook of spectroscopy [print]
• Handbook of ultraviolet and visible absorption spectra of organic compounds [print]
• Infrared and Raman spectra of inorganic and coordination compounds [print]
• Infrared band handbook [print]
• Organic electronic spectral data [print]
• Spectrometric identification of organic compounds [print]
• Structure determination of organic compounds: tables of spectral data [print]
• Tabulation of infrared spectral data [print]
• UV atlas of organic compounds [print]