This compilation is based on talks given by John Newport at the January 14, 2009 and January 13, 2010 CCN meetings supplemented by input from the audience. Please send any comments or additional resources to jflnewport@chemventive.com.

The slide presentation given at the January 13, 2010 CCN meeting can be viewed here -> Resources for Consultants Roundtable Presentation - PDF file

OVERVIEW

OBJECTIVE: To generate a timely compendium of resources for Chemical Consultants by sharing information on those, that individually, we have found useful.

TOPICS (linked to information below)

FINDING WORK

YOUR CCN WEB PAGE (Let the world find you. Keep your web page current and come to CCN meetings)

NETWORKING

ADVERTISING (GOOGLE ADS - PAY PER CLICK)

CECON http://cecon.com/
The CECON Group provides Science and Engineering Consulting, Expert Witnesses & Technical Business Consultants.
Free to register and you negotiate your own fee with clients.

NINE SIGMA http://www.ninesigma.com/
Publish Requests for Proposals and Requests for Solutions

INNOCENTIVE http://innocentive.com/
Publish challenges with assigned $ awards.

YOUR ENCORE (INNOVATION COMMUNITY) http://yourencore.com/
YourEncore is a network of retired and veteran scientists and engineers providing clients with proven experience to help accelerate their pace of innovation.

YET2.COM http://www.yet2.com/app/about/home
yet2.com's mission is to help you identify and capture the full value of your intellectual assets.

CCR.GOV http://www.ccr.gov
Register as a Government Contractor. Look for opportunities at http://www.fbo.gov (full details in October 2009 CCN presentation)

IDEA CONNECTION http://www.ideaconnection.com
Register with them (they ask for 7% of income for work they bring to you and will pay 35% for work you bring to them). They also form small teams to solve problems posted on Innocentive and elsewhere.

ARTICLEONEPARTNERS.COM http://articleonepartners.com/ Article One is a global community of researchers who find key evidence that increases patent quality and resolves litigation. They pay a bounty for finding prior art in the open literature.

CHALLENGE.GOV http://www.challenge.gov Challenge.gov is a place where the public and government can solve problems together. Many companies have recognized the benefits of open innovation and have conducted their own individual challenges. The most notable one of late was Barrick International's 10 million dollar challenge. Also check out www.quirky.com that takes open innovation and crowdsourcing to a whole new level when you submit ideas for a new product.

Sign up for free as an expert in the sites below:

THE COUNCILS (GERSON LEHRMAN) http://www.glgroup.com/councils.html
Helps leading companies and investment firms better understand industry issues by arranging educational interactions with members of the GLG Councils, a network of more than 200,000 academics, scientists, industry practitioners, and other professionals worldwide.

SOCIETY OF INDUSTRY LEADERS http://www.societyofindustryleaders.com/index.jsf
Is a carefully selected global network of industry professionals and thought leaders. SIL Members are connected to Vista Research Inc. clients, usually through telephone and in-person consultations, and are compensated for their time.

INTOTA http://www.intota.com/
Expert consulting and Expert Witness Services

THE TASA GROUP http://www.tasanet.com/
Expert consulting and Expert Witness Services

EXPERTS.COM http://www.experts.com
Technical and scientific experts (fee to register)

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NETWORKING

CCN , JPS, ACS, AICHE MEETINGS

LINKEDIN.COM

Other sites similar to LINKEDIN.COM are: SPOKE.COM, XING.com and Plaxo.com

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SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION

Workhorses are:
Googlescholar http://scholar.google.com
Scirus http://scirus.com/
Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org/

SciFinder (http://scifinder.com/ ) and Dialog (http://www.dialog.com/ ) provide access to electronic journal articles - but at a significant price. Both also offer a pay as you go service.( http://stneasy.cas.org )

Chemspider http://www.chemspider.com a truly excellent site, gives detailed info for a given molecule including literature refs, patents, physical properties (experimental and calculated), synthetic methods, spectra etc.

Quertle http://www.quertle.com search engine that has all of PubMed (Medline) documents and an increasing number of other full text documents. Uses advanced linguistic methods to order results in a variety of useful ways (by keywords, by date, by applied filters etc)

Wolframalpha http://www.wolframalpha.com very different kind of site. Enter a question, an engineering or mathematical problem, a chemical name etc. and ,if it can, it will provide a single answer using verified information. Highly recommended.

Emolecules http://www.emolecules.com. Find Suppliers and Information for over 8 Million Unique Chemicals.

Organicworldwide http://www.organicworldwide.net
Organic chemistry resources worldwide with sections on Synthesis, Experimental Set Up and Purification, Structure Confirmation etc.

iBridgenetwork http://www.ibridgenetwork.org provides unbiased information about early stage technologies and inventions.

Public Universities are cost free to search their paper and electronic journals.

Chemistry Central http://chemistrycentral.com/
Chemistry Central is a new service publishing peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry

CHF Library http://chemheritage.org/

Patents http://uspto.gov, http://epo.org, http://freepatentsonline.com, http://www.jpo.go.jp/index_e/patents.html.
Can also use http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en to search US patents and get a PDF version.

ENGINEERINGTOOLBOX www.engineeringtoolbox.com Tools and Basic Information for Design, Engineering and Construction of Technical Applications

CHERESOURCES www.cheresources.com Resources for the chemical engineering community

ENGINEERSEDGE www.engineersedge.com Design, engineering & manufacturing resource.

FREECALC www.freecalc.com Applications for everyday Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, and Scientific calculations

Touchgraph http://touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Use to explore the connections between related websites

And don't neglect:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html
which is a: Search Engines Directory

Internet search engines are categorized by topic in this searchable directory of general and specialty search engines.

Chemistry Search Engines (listed in www.searchengineguide.com)

Analytical Chemistry Springboard
Directory of analytical chemistry resources on the Internet.

ChemDex
Directory of chemistry on the WWW.

ChemFinder
An index to chemical information on the Internet, with structures and physical properties, searchable by name, structure, CAS Number, and physical properties.

Chemical Analysis.com
Matches those in need of chemical analysis with a database of labs and consultants from around the world. Also provides a links index, an analytical book store, literature referral service, and a chemists forum.

Chemistry - Links for Chemists
A huge index of Chemistry resources on the WWW arranged into 75 chemical categories.

Information Retrieval in Chemistry
Chemistry and sciences resource compendium by field and by topic.

Under Chemistry - Links for Chemists
Operated by the University of Liverpool www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html are listings of:

ORGANIC SYNTHESES http://www.orgsyn.org/
A free site listing reliable methods for synthesizing chemical compounds.

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DATABASES

Chemical Register http://www.chemicalregister.com. Database of Chemical Industry suppliers

Dunn and Bradsheet http://www.dnb.com. Business and business credit database.

Scopus http://www.scopus.com. Abstract and Citation database of research literature

Electrochemistry Encyclopedia http://electrochem.cwru.edu/encycl/ Covers many aspects of electrochemistry, electroanalytical chemistry and electrochemical engineering.

Chemblink http://www.chemblink.com Database of chemicals from around the world

Chemtube3D http://www.chemtube3D.com. This site contains interactive 3D animations for some of the most important organic reactions with supporting information on reactivity and spectroscopy.

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TRANSLATION SERVICES

http://Babelfish.yahoo.com

www.Dictionary.com

http://translate.google.com/translate
All cover translation, either way, between the most common languages with the disclaimer:

Please note: The translator will not produce a perfect translation. In most cases it should adequately convey the general sense of the original; however, it is not a substitute for a competent human translator. (also see www.nicetranslator.com and www.freetranslation.com )

The JPO link: http://www.jpo.go.jp/index_e/patents.html has a built in translator at:
http://www4.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/Tokujitu/tjsogodben.ipdl?N0000=115

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SOFTWARE

WWW.OPENOFFICE.ORG (Free) Opens and produces files in MS Word, Excel and Power Point formats. Unlike MS Word can also save in PDF format.

WWW.SNAGIT.COM (Free trial, $49) Captures anything on your screen

WWW.FREEWAREFILES.COM Searchable database of Freeware

WWW.DOWNLOAD.COM Listings of free to try software

WWW.SHAREWARE.COM

CUTEPDF http://cutepdf.com/ AND PRIMO.PDF http://www.filehippo.com/download_primopdf/3966/
both provide free conversion of files to PDF format

OPENBABEL http://www.openbabel.com is an open source chemical toolbox.

MEGAUPLOAD http://www.megaupload.com for sending and receiving very large files.

ACD/ChemSketch 12.0 Freeware http://www.acdlabs.com/download/chemsketch/
A comprehensive chemical drawing package. (The ACD physical property prediction software is embedded for free in Chemspider)

Chemistry-Blog.CPM/Dictionary/ http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2008/12/17/chemistry-dictionary-for-word-processors-version-20/.
Chemistry dictionary for word processors.

And for Cloud computing use Google.Docs

Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ a symbolic math program

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NEWS

SQOX Financial News Aggregator http://www.sqox.com
Aggregates financial news from a number of sources.

BOILTHISDOWN http://www.boilthisdown.org
ACS site that reviews chemical and industry news on a daily basis.

Nature Preceedings http://preceedings.nature.com provides a platform for sharing new and preliminary findings on a global basis.

WatchThatPage www.watchthatpage.com select which pages to monitor and changes are emailed to you.

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BUSINESS

ZOHO www.zoho.com provides a wide, integrated portfolio of rich online applications for businesses. With more than 20 different applications spanning Collaboration , Business and Productivity applications (free for personal use).

Outright http://www.outright.com is a free software-as-a-service simple online bookkeeping service that fill out a Schedule C.

NUMIA www.numia.biz free accounting software for small businesses. Also provides forms for invoicing, purchases etc.

QUICKEN www.quicken.intuit.com has a free online version for personal accounting

HiTask www.hitask.com is a free web-based task management tool.

REMEMBERTHEMILK www.rememberthemilk.com is another free task management tool

WEEBLY www.weebly.com to create a free website

WORDPRESS www.wordpress.org free web software to create a website or blog

LOGOWORKS http://logoworks.com/ Designs logos. Prints cards, stationary etc.
for other Freelance Designers and Programmers visit www.99designs.com , www.crowdspring.com www.elance.com and www.sologig.com

Google Voice http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html
Free phone service with lots of features.

Skype http://www.skype.com
Low cost national and international plans to landlines and mobile phones (requires an internet connection)

Vyew http://www.vyew.com
Communicate and collaborate in real time. Provides a very simple whiteboard where you can upload documents for discussion.
(Free for up to 20 users)

Google Wave http://wave.google.com/wave/
Communicate and collaborate in real time (free to all)

LabX http://www.labx.com used scientific equipment for sale/auction.

EquipNet www.equipnet.com Used/surplus lab equipment

CONSULTANTSCONSULTANT.COM.AU/
Resource center with free tools, from articles, forms, templates etc.

SMALLBIZRESOURCE http://www.informationweek.com/smb/blogs
Sends out weekly Newsletter - mainly IT.

SMALL BUSINESS NEWS - BUSINESS WEEK http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/
Find helpful resources about small business management, financing, marketing & technology.

LOCAL BUSINESS SCHOOLS (To the Philadelphia area)
WHARTON, TEMPLE , UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, RUTGERS/NEWARK SBDC

BOOKS

"Consulting for Dummies" by Bob Nelson and Peter Economy
"Flawless Consulting" by Peter Block
"Spare Room Tycoon" by James Chan
"Inside the Technical Consulting Business" by Harvey Kaye

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LEGAL

LEGALZOOM http://www.legalzoom.com/
LLC, Partnership Agreements, Copyright issues, Business Services etc.

MYCORPORATION www.mycorporation.com to incorporate or form an LLC

NOLOPRESS http://nolopress.com/
Many business resources and 100s of downloadable forms from $5 - $17. Also books on legal related issues including "Patent it Yourself".

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EDUCATION

LOCAL UNIVERSITIES & COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Free course per term for 62 and older at DCCC

MIT OPEN COURSEWARE http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
Over 1800 undergraduate and graduate courses with lecture notes, lecture videos and exams in their free online courses.

OPEN COURSEWARE CONSORTIUM http://www.ocwconsortium.org
Lists worldwide open courses

THE NATIONAL SCIENCE DIGITAL LIBRARY http://nsdl.org/

iTUNESU http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/

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CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION BOOKS

Chesbrough, H., "Open Innovation", HBS Press, 2003
Christensen, C. M., "The Innovator's Dilemma", HBS Press, 1997
Epstein, R., Ph.D., "The Big Book of Creativity Games", McGraw Hill, 2000
Hargadon, A., "How Breakthroughs Happen", HBS Press, 2003
Kelley, T., "The Ten Faces of Innovation", Currency Doubleday, 2005
Robinson, A. G. and Stern, Sam, "Corporate Creativity", Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1997
Von Hippel, E., "The Sources of Innovation", Oxford University Press, 1988


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