Associations/Organizations/Societies
- Alpha Chi Sigma
The only Professional Chemistry Fraternity. It is nearly 100 years old with over 53,000 members who are pursuing a wide variety of chemistry-related careers. - American Association for the Advancement
of Science
The world's largest general science organization, with more than 138,000 members and 275 affiliated societies, AAAS serves as an authoritative source for information on the latest developments in science and bridges gaps among scientists, policy-makers and the public to advance science and science education. - American Chemical Society
The ACS is a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of 161,000 members 60% from industry, at all degree levels. There are 34 ACS divisions, representing a wide range of disciplines for chemists, chemical engineers and technicians. - American Crystallographic
Organization
The American Crystallographic Association (ACA) was founded in 1949. The total membership of the ACA is about 2,500 worldwide. There are 11 Special Interest Groups. The objective of the ACA is to promote interactions among scientists who study the structure of matter at atomic (or near atomic) resolution. - American Institute of Chemical
Engineers
A nonprofit organization, founded in 1908, to provide leadership to the chemical engineering profession. Representing 57,000 members in industry, academia, and government, AIChE provides forums to advance the theory and practice of the profession, upholds high professional standards and ethics, and supports excellence in education. - American Oil Chemists Society
Founded in 1909. AOCS is an international organization consisting of over 5,400 members throughout 108 countries across the globe. Organization for those with a professional interest in the science and technology of fats, oils, surfactants, and related materials. - American Petrochemical Institute
The American Petroleum Institute is the U.S. petroleum industry’s primary trade association. Its membership of 400 companies consists of a broad cross section of petroleum and allied industries in Exploration & Production, Refining, Pipelines, Marketing, and Marine Transportation. - American Plastics Council
The American Plastics Council (APC) is a major trade association for the United States plastics industry working to ensure that plastics are recognized as a preferred material by actively demonstrating they are a responsible choice in a more environmentally conscious world. APC is comprised of 25 of the leading plastics manufacturers in the United States. - American Society for Mass Spectrometry
ASMS was formed in 1969, for the purpose of promoting and disseminating knowledge of mass spectrometry and allied topics. Membership includes over 3,500 scientists involved in research and development. Members come from academic, industrial and governmental laboratories. - Association of Formulation Chemists
Providing multi-industry cross-fertilization by disseminating basic technical information on formulation technology pertaining to adhesives, drugs, cosmetics, pigments, foods, pesticides, and other applications, through meetings, seminars, publications, and other means of communication. - Chemical Abstracts Service - CAS
CAS is the producer of the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information. Their principal databases, Chemical Abstracts (CA), and REGISTRY now include about 16 million document records and more than 27 million substance records respectively. CAS also produces databases of chemical reactions, commercially available chemicals, listed regulated chemicals, and compounds claimed in patents. - Chemical Heritage Foundation
Established by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) had its origins in 1982. CHF seeks to strengthen public understanding of the chemical sciences and technologies, increase the flow of the ablest students into the chemical sciences and chemical process industries, and instill in chemical scientists and engineers greater pride in their heritage and their contributions to society. - Chemical Structure Association Trust
The Chemical Structure Association Trust (CSA Trust) is an internationally recognized charity established to promote education, research and development in the field of storage, processing and retrieval of information about chemical structures, reactions and compounds and to facilitate the exchange of information on chemical structure handling. The Trust incorporated the Chemical Structure Association in 2003 and continues to extend its educational activities through the production of a newsletter and website and through the organization of conference and training. - ChemWeb
The Worldwide Club for the Chemical Community. - Council for Chemistry Research
The Council for Chemical Research (CCR) membership represents industry, academia, and government. CCR was formed in 1979 to promote cooperation in basic research and encourage high quality education in the chemical sciences and engineering. The mission of the CCR is to enhance research in chemistry-based sciences, engineering, and technology that benefits society and the national well-being, through productive interactions among industrial, academic, and governmental research sectors. - Electrochemical Society
The Electrochemical Society is an international nonprofit, educational, organization concerned with a broad range of phenomena relating to electrochemical and solid state science and technology. The Society has more than 7,000 scientists and engineers in over 75 countries worldwide who hold individual membership, as well as roughly 100 corporations and laboratories who hold contributing membership. - Institute for Scientific Information
For over 40 years, ISI has been publishing scholarly bibliographic databases for the global research community. ISI products include the ISI Web of Science and Current Contents Connect. Other services include a line of bibliographic management tools, a document delivery service and other literature research tools in multiple formats including CD-ROM and diskette. - International Society of Electrochemistry
Founded in 1949. Comprises now about 1100 individual members, Its membership comes from more than 60 countries and is organized in over 40 national and regional sections. Its goals include to advance electrochemical science and technology, to disseminate scientific and technological knowledge, and to promote international cooperation in electrochemistry. - International Society for Optical
Engineering
Founded in 1955. SPIE is an international technical society dedicated to promoting the engineering and scientific applications of optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through its education and communications programs, meetings and publications. The Society serves the global technical and business communities, with over 14,000 individual, 320 corporate, and 3,000 technical group members in more than 75 countries worldwide. - International Union of Crystallography
Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences. - International Union
of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Formed in 1919. IUPAC has long been recognized as the world authority on chemical nomenclature, terminology, standardized methods for measurement, atomic weights and many other critically evaluated data. - Learned
Society List
An international list that points to 159 learned societies, professional societies, and other organizations which claim some respectability. - Materials Research Society
Founded in 1973, the MRS consists of more than 12,000 members from the United States and over 50 other countries. A nonprofit organization which brings together scientists, engineers and research managers from industry, government, academia and research laboratories to share findings in the research and development of new materials of technological importance. - The National Academies
In 1863, the United States Congress created the National Academy of Sciences to advise the government in scientific and technical matters. The National Academies consist of four organizations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. - National Institute of Standards
and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration. Established in 1901, NIST strengthens the U.S. economy and improves the quality of life by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards. - The National Science Foundation
Founded in 1950. The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering. - Network of Chemical Societies
A site for chemists and the home of the international chemistry societies' electronic network. The site provides interesting features and useful services for the chemistry community. The information is made available by various national chemistry societies for dissemination on a single site. Currently around 30 such societies are providing varying levels of information on chemsoc. - North American
Catalysis Society
The North American Catalysis Society was founded in 1956 to promote and encourage the growth and development of the science of catalysis and those scientific disciplines ancillary thereto; to report, discuss and exchange information and viewpoints in the field of catalysis; and to provide liaison with foreign catalysis societies, with the International Congress on Catalysis, and with other scientific organizations and individuals. - Phi Lamda Upsilon
Founded as an honorary chemical society in March 1899. An organization comprising sixty-seven chapters and more than 55,000 members. The aims and purposes of the Society are the promotion of high scholarship and original investigation in all branches of pure and applied chemistry. - Royal Society of Chemistry
The Learned Society for chemistry and the Professional Body for chemists in the UK with 46,000 members worldwide. The Society is a major publisher and provider of chemical information, supports the teaching of chemistry at all levels, organizes hundreds of chemical meetings a year and is a leader in communicating science to the public. - Society of Applied Spectroscopy
Founded in 1954. The objective of this Society is to advance and disseminate knowledge and information concerning the art and science of spectroscopy and other allied sciences. - Society of Environmental Toxicology
and Chemistry
SETAC is an independent, nonprofit professional society that provides a forum for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of environmental issues, the management and conservation of natural resources, environmental education, and environmental research and development. - Society of Plastics Industry
Founded in 1937, the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. is the trade association representing the fourth-largest manufacturing industry in the United States. SPI’s 1,700 members represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw material suppliers. - Society of Toxicology
Founded in 1961, the Society of Toxicology is a professional and scholarly organization of scientists from academic institutions, government, and industry representing the great variety of scientists who practice toxicology in the U.S. and abroad. The Society promotes the acquisition and utilization of knowledge in toxicology, aids in the protection of public health, and facilitates disciplines. - World Standards Services
Network
World Standards Services Network (WSSN), is a network of publicly accessible World Wide Web servers of standards organizations around the world. Through the Web sites of its members, WSSN provides information on international, regional and national standardization and related activities and services.
Directories
- Royal Society of Chemistry A - Z List of Societies and Organizations
- Scholarly
Societies Project
This is one of a set of subject pages created by compilers at the University of Waterloo Library to facilitate access to websites maintained by or for scholarly societies across the world.