Chemical journals

This article has the intention of providing a non-exhaustive list with no attempt at completeness of chemical journals or book series that are available online on various websites and provide links or commentary on the availability, as sometimes the resources despite being available online can't easily be found.

If the journal or book seems to be unavailable, try to check The Internet Archive and Google Books. You can also try Library Genesis/SciHub-project. If you have access to SciFinder, a translated abstract might be available even when the journal isn't digitally accessible.

For patents, try Google Patents, Espacenet or others. Sometimes you may need to go to the country specific patent office websites, for example for old german patents. See German patent office, French patent office, Hugarian patent office.

Also see Wikisource and this collection of freely available journals. Another large list is available at this illumina-chemie.de thread.

Acta Chemica Scandinavica

Also abbreviated as Acta Chem. Scand.

Volumes 1-53 (1947-1999) are available online: 1-53 (1947-1999)

American Chemical Journal

Also abbreviated as Am. Chem. J. Not to be confused with the Journal of the American Chemical Society (J. Am. Chem. Soc./JACS)!

Some volumes are digitally available on The Internet Archive: (Search results)

Beilsteins Handbuch der organischen Chemie

Also abbreviated simply as Beilstein. Standard reference book series in German up until and including the fourth edition. Founded in 1881. This Wikipedia page contains a list of volumes.

Some volumes are available online: (Search results)

First edition: 1 (1881), 1 (1883), 2 (1883), 2 (1883)

Second edition: 1 (1886), 2 (1888), 3 (1890)

Third edition: 1 (1893), 2 (1896), 3 (1897), 3 (1897)

Third edition supplementary (Ergänzungsbände): 1 (1901), 2 (1903), 3 (1904), 4 (1906), 5 (1906) (Index)

Fourth edition: 1 (1918), 2 (1920), 3 (1921), 4 (1922), 5 (1922), 6 (1923), 7 (1925), 8 (1925), 9 (1926), 10 (1927), 11 (1928), 12 (1929), 13 (1930), 14 (1931), 15 (1932), 16 (1933), 17 (1933), 18 (1934), 19 (1934), 20 (1935), 21 (1935), 22 (1935), 23 (1936), 24 (1936), 25 (1936), 26 (1937), 27 (1937)

Fourth edition supplementary 1 (Ergänzungsbände): 3-4 (1929), 6 (1931), 7-8 (1931), 9 (1932), 10 (1932), 11-12 (1933), 13-14 (1933), 15-16 (1934), 20-21-22 (1935), 23-24-25 (1936), 26-27 (1938), 28-1 (1938) (Index A-H), 28-2 (1939) (Index H-Z), 29-1 (1939) (Index C₁-C₁₃), 29-2 (1940) (Index C₁₄-C₁₉₆)

Fourth edition supplementary 2 (Ergänzungsbände): 1 (1941), 2 (1942), 3-4 (1942), 5 (1943), 6 (1944), 8 (1948), 9 (1949), 10 (1949), 11 (1950), 12 (1950)

Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France

Also abbreviated as Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. Some editions are available online:

The following years: 1861-1891, 1892-1906, 1907-1917

The Internet Archive lists the following volumes: 23 (1918), 25 (1919), 27 (1920), 29 (1921), 31 (1922), 33 (1923), 45 (1929), 47 (1930), 49 (1931), 51 (1932), 53 (1933), 5-12 (1938-1945)

A few more volumes are listed here: Société chimique de France

Chemisch Weekblad

Also abbreviated as Chem. Weekbl. This journal belongs to the Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV).

The following volumes are online: 1-52 (1903-1956)

Gazzetta Chimica Italiana

Also abbreviated as Gazz. Chim. Ital. The Internet Archive lists the following:

Volumes 1-19 (1871-1889) are discontinous with volumes 4, 6, 7 missing and some scanned twice: 1 (1871), 3 (1873), 5 (1875), 5 (1875), 8 (1878), 8 (1878), 9 (1879), 9 (1879), 10 (1880), 10 (1880), 11 (1881), 12 (1882), 13 (1883), 14 (1884), 14 (1884), 15 (1885), 16 (1886), 17 (1887), 17 (1887), 18 (1888), 18 (1888), 19 (1889)

Volumes 20-53 (1890-1923) are continuous: 20-29 (1890-1899), 30-39 (1900-1909), 40-49 (1910-1919), 50-53 (1920-1923)

Some of the volumes are scanned twice again: 20 (1890), 21 (1891), 22 (1892), 23 (1893), 28 (1898), 29 (1899), 31 (1901), 31 (1901), 33 (1903), 35 (1905), 38 (1908)

The following volumes labeled as appendice are available: 1 (1884, appendice), 2 (1884, appendice), 5 (1887, appendice), 8 (1885, appendice)

The following volume is missing volume number and year: ??

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie

An old german book series concerned with inorganic chemistry. The modern equivalent is Gmelins Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, and is only incompletely available on Libgen. See also on Wikipedia here.

The following bands are available on the Internet Archive: 1-1 (1907), 1-2 (1909), 1-3 (1911), 2-1 (1905), 2-2 (1909), 3-1 (1912), 3-1 (continuation), 3-2 (1908), 4-1 (1911), 4-2 (1924), 5-1 (1909), 5-1 (continuation), 5-2 (1914), 5-3 (1915), 6-1 (1928), 6-2 (1932)

Alternative scans: 1-1 (1907), 2-1 (1906), 2-1 (1906), 3-2 (1908)

Journal of Analytical Chemistry

Formerly known as Journal of Analytical Chemistry of the USSR.

The journals homepage lists results from 2000 onwards: (2000-today)

A few older editions are available on The Internet Archive: (1952-1977)

Journal of the Indian Chemical Society

Also abbreviated as J. Indian Chem. Soc.

The Internet Archive has a collection here: (1924-2007)

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry

Also abbreviated as Russ. J. Appl. Chem. Formerly known as Journal of Applied Chemistry of the USSR. Publishing started in 1928.

The journals homepage lists results 2001 onwards: (2001-today)

A few older editions are also available on The Internet Archive: (1951-1994)

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