Spectroscopy Links
This is an expanding feature which compiles a list of Web sites with a spectroscopic content. Brief commentaries are included where the content of the link is not immediately obvious. The list is by no means complete, so send us your suggestions if you find an interesting site, or if you wish to include your webpage in any of the relevant sections.
Page compiled by gary [at] ictp.csic.es (Dr. Gary Ellis), CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
Companies Education Groups & Societies Journals Places Portals Spectra Misc
Running total = 191 links
If you find any broken or outdated links, please contact gary [at] ictp.csic.es (me)
Companies
Instrumentation
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About.com (Chemistry) Global information resource including some spectroscopy
Analytical Spectroscopy (Science Hypermedia) Part of Brian M. Tissue’s educational hypermedia resource
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ICNIRS The International Committee for Near Infrared Spectroscopy IRDG The Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (UK) meets three times a year, and has provided since 1950 an important forum for all interested in the theory, practice and teaching of infrared and Raman spectroscopy Molecular Spectroscopy Group Specialised subject Group of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry Raman@ A bilingual website dedicated to all areas of the Raman technique, incorporating the Raman Users Group. Features include Spanish-English and French-English spectroscopy dictionaries, Raman applications, etc. Sociedad Española de Óptica, SEDO (in Spanish) The Spanish Optical Society. Homepage for the Spectroscopy Committee Society of Applied Spectroscopy An international society with a strong base stateside, and thousands of members worldwide Spectroscopy Group The Spectroscopy Group of the Institute of Physics, founded in 1946, organises around four meetings every year, on all aspects of spectroscopy. |
Journals
Useful sites for bibliographic information on-line.
Applied Spectroscopy The Society of Applied Spectroscopy gives contents and abstract listings from their journal, since January 1994. On-line version for paying members Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy The first free peer-reviewed vibrational spectroscopy journal on the Internet Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy Academic Press provides information and downloadable indices of contents in .pdf portable document format (you need to configure a viewer). External links to contents and abstracts with guest access facilities are available Journal of Raman Spectroscopy Interscience-Wiley provide basic information about the JRS here. However, for contents listings and detailed abstracts, register with Wiley InterScience and configure your personal homepage to select your “hot” journals or articles NIR Publications specialist publisher in near infrared spectroscopy, with two journals; NIR News and Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy NIRS Reporter Educational Internet Journal dedicated to near-infrared spectroscopy, from the University of Lyon (France) Spectrochimica Acta Elsevier Science provide full information with journal contents listings since March 1987 (Vol. 53). They also provide electronic subscriptionas and an alerting service which you can configure to recieve regular listings of the journals of your choice by e-mail. Mirror sites in USA and Japan Spectroscopy Contents listing of this US based magazine with publications on techniques, instrumentation and applications. Spectroscopy Europe The Spectroscopy Europe web site contains a searchable database of products published in the magazine, as well as a diary of Future Events, the full text of the Tony Davies Columns on data handling and chemometrics, and news from the latest issue Vibrational Spectroscopy Elsevier Science provide full information with journal contents listings since November 1984 (Vol. 8). They also provide electronic subscriptions and an alerting service which you can configure to recieve regular listings of the journals of your choice by e-mail. Mirror sites in USA and Japan Wave of the Future On-line peer-reviewed preprint manuscripts on Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Computational Sciences, as part of a vision of a new scientific publication system |
This is a brief but rapidly expanding representation of academic and institutional groups on the Web which use vibrational spectroscopy in their research.
Americas and Canada Advanced Light Source (USA) The infrared beamlines homepage by Mike Martin, at the synchrotron radiation source at Berkeley Labs, California Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) Infrared spectroscopy (Beamline U4IR) at the National Synchrotron Light Source City College New York (USA) SERS with J.R.Lombardi and R.Burke Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) Laser Spectroscopy and Microinstrumentation Group Institute for Biodiagnostics, NRC (Canada) Infrared spectroscopy and imaging methods for use in the health care arena Synchroton Radiation Center, Wisconsin (USA) Includes a beamline dedicated to IR research, equipped with FT-IR microscope Univ. Illinois, Beckman Institute (USA) Raman – SERS of chemical and biological systems Univ. Miami (USA) Molecular Microspectroscopy Laboratory Univ. Ohio State (USA) Richard McCreery’s Group: Raman – Surface spectroscopy, Raman imaging and analytical Raman spectroscopy Univ. Pittsburgh (USA) Sanford Asher’s Group: UV resonance Raman and crystalline colloid displays Univ. Pontificia Católica (Chile) Micro-Raman laboratory Univ. West Virginia (USA) Paul Jagodzinski’s Vibrational Spectroscopy Group Univ. Washington in St. Louis (USA) Haskin Research Group: In situ Planetary Raman Spectroscopy Univ. Windsor (Canada) Ricardo Aroca’s Materials and Surface Science Group: Analytical spectroscopy and Surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy U.S. Geological Survey Spectroscopy Lab Extensive website which includes a digital spectral library, imaging spectroscopy and terrestrial mapping, planetary spectra, and even tutorials on spectroscopy and basic principles |
Asia and Australia Raman Research Institute (India) “Home” of Sir C.V.Raman, founded in 1948 by the Nobel laureate, the main activity of the Institute is basic research in selected areas of Physics and Astronomy RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia) Vibrational Spectroscopy Facility Univ. Canberra (Australia) Raman Microscopy Unit Univ. Sydney (Australia) The vibrational spectrosopy laboratory |
Europe Agricultural Univ. of Athens (Greece) Pesticides Determination by FT-Raman Methods Institute of Experimental Minerology (Russia) High-temperature high-pressure Raman spectroscopy Institute of the Structure of Matter, CSIC (Spain) Department of Vibrational Spectroscopy and Multiphotonic Processes Institute of Materials, CSIC (Spain) Fernando Agulló-Rueda’s Group: Raman microscopy of semiconductors, insulators and thin films Swiss Gemological Institute (Switzerland) Raman microscopy – mineral identification Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) Raman spectroscopy in the Chemistry Department under Rolf W. Berg Technical University of Graz (Austria) Infrared and Raman Microspectroscopy at the FELMI/ZFE facility Univ. Aberystwyth (UK) IR and Raman spectroscopy in the quantitative biology and analytical biotechnology group Univ. Barcelona (Spain) (in Catalán) Molecular spectroscopy in the Scientific Tecnical Services Department, including a wide range of IR and Raman applications Univ. Bath (UK) John Davies’s Optical Spectroscopy Group: Semiconductors Univ. Florence (Italy) Raman spectroscopy in the European Laboratory for non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) Univ. Hamburg (Germany) Raman microscopy in the Nanostructure Physics Group Univ. Lille (France) IR and Raman spectroscopy laboratory Univ. London – UCL and Imperial College (UK) Raman and FT-Raman – service pages Univ. Leuven (Belgium) Raman microscopy – superconductors Univ. Lyon (France) |
Website dedicated to IR and NIR spectroscopy, edited by Gilbert LachenalUniv. Oslo (Norway)
Software for vibrational Raman optical Activity
Univ. Oxford (UK)
Raman scattering in the Department of Earth Sciences
Univ. Parma (Italy)
Raman and Raman microscopy – Sol-gel, doped glasses, semiconductors
Univ. Paris-Sud, LURE (France)
Mirage Synchrotron beamline for IR microscopy, run by Paul Dumas
Univ. Politécnica de Cataluña (Spain)
Raman Spectroscopy-Microscopy for pigment identification in artwork
Univ. Ruhr (Germany)
Raman – normal coordinate analysis and bismuth organic compounds
Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands)
Van der Maas Group: Molecular interactions and multivariate analysis
SpectroscopyNOW Comprehensive resource for users of all areas of Spectroscopy, provided by John Wiley & Sons |
Database: FT-NIR Applications (Germany) Provided by Büchi Database: Ice analogs (Netherlands) Infrared spectra of laboratory analogs of interstellar ices from the Leiden Observatory Database: IR Correlation Charts and IR Optical Materials Useful information, compiled by Warren Vidrine of Vidrine Consulting (USA) Database: IR Reference Spectra (USA) The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Emission Measurement Centre provide over 100 reference spectra downloadable in .spc format with listings Database: IR Spectra of Organic Compounds (USA) Small collection of organic compounds from Smith College Database: Minerals Spectroscopy Server (USA) The California Institute of Technology provides a large database of Absorption, IR and Raman spectra of minerals, and information on colour in minerals Database: Raman Shift Frequency Standards (USA) ASTM E 1848 standard spectra (.html files) and frequency tables from the McCreery Group Database: Raman Spectra of Carbohydrates (Denmark) Around 13 Spectra, although many more promised, in GIF and PE-ASCII formats for downloading, from the Royal Vet. and Agricultural University Database: Raman Spectra of Natural and Synthetic Pigments (UK) Excellent collection of Pre- ~1850 AD pigments, with many downloadable files in the *.spc format Database: SDBS (Japan) Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds including NMR, MS, IR and Raman spectra Database: SpecInfo Around 25,000 IR spectra in this enormous database from Wiley can be searched using SpecSurf browser software. Information and registration page. Database: SpectraOnline, Galactic (USA) FREE searchable database containing over 6,000 spectra of IR, MS, NMR (proton, carbon and other nuclei), UV/VIS and NIR spectra. Database: Vibrational Spectra (Italy) Infrared, Raman and electronic spectra from the University of Torino. Needs Active-X viewer. |
Miscellaneous Links
References, information, and software or utilities for the manipulation of spectral data
ACD/SpecViewer (Canada) Freware from ACD Labs which imports and views processed ASCII, JCAMP-DX, *.SPC or *.ESP files for NMR, MS, UV, Visible, IR, NIR and Raman spectra through a single interface Calculation of IR and Raman Intensities (Netherlands) Methodology and instruction manual for the GAMESS molecular modeling program Chemscape Chime (UK) and (USA) Plugin software for browsers allowing access and manipulation of chemical data in many formats ComSpec3D Very interesting resource to calculate the IR and Raman spectra of small molecules, allowing visualization of peaks and vibrations after downloading a plug-in IR-windows.com Excellent resource form Spectroscopy Central, containing everything you need to know about IR materials JCAMP-DX viewer (UK) The original display programs written by Robert Lancashire (UWI, Jamaica) have now been incorporated into MDL’s Chime 2 plugin, free to academic/educational institutions. However some utilities for the original software may still be available here .spc data viewer FREE tool for viewing, displaying, and sharing spectral and chromatographic data files saved in the Galactic SPC format Telespec IR spectral simulation on the WorldWideWeb “The Monster Library” (Iceland) Internet located reference collection, in its very early stages, but already includes IJVS articles and features listing “Prometheus” (Germany) Software for normal coordinate analysis calculations, from Martin Jursch SpectroscopyNOW The IR section of Wileys extensive spectroscopy resource was launched on July 1, 2001 Wavenumber Calibration Tables, NIST (USA) Calculated from heterodyne frequency measurements Wizards from Univ. Potsdam (Germany) A series of spectroscopic tools for NMR and mass spectroscopy, but includes “IR Wizard” (in the left-hand frame) for frequency-chemical group predictions Dictionary: Photonics Searchable resource containing descriptions of a most optical terms GetSpec.com Centre for information and discussion page in the field of optical spectroscopy (Raman, NIR, UV/vis , IR) IR spectra: Greenhouse Gases (USA) Part of module used in an inquiry-based Introductory Chemistry class in Beloit College IR-Tutor Downloadable educational software developed by Prof. Charles Abrams of Beloit College |
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