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Chemical price information from chemical suppliers can be difficult to find since there is no single, authoritative resource. However, based on the type of pricing information you need, we recommend a variety of different sources:

Suppliers - current price information for purchasing chemicals. Find price information directly from chemical supply companies.

Trade/Business Literature - current information about chemical industries. Search business-related research article and news databases for particular chemicals and chemical industries.

Journal Archives and Encyclopedias - historical chemical price information. Find historical pricing by searching archives of relevant publications and consulting chemistry encyclopedias.

The best way to find current pricing for chemicals is to contact the chemical suppliers. You can identify suppliers for a particular substance by searching a chemical properties database like SciFinder or Reaxys, or you can search through a chemical directory or catalog. Some points to remember as you search:

Some prices are volatile and change daily; others may be quite stable over long periods of time. For estimation purposes you should consider trends over a period of time.

Prices for a commodity differ according to manufacturer, location, quantity, grade, delivery mode, time of year, and other variables. Long term contract prices are usually lower than spot prices.

In many cases a direct quote from a supplier will be the only source of price information, especially for bulk pricing.

The highest quality market analyses are compiled for industry subscribers, tend to be quite expensive, and are not generally available to an educational audience. Some trade publications offer subscription-based pricing products to individuals and companies. Otherwise, researchers must gather pricing information piecemeal from various publications and web searches. We have compiled a list of resources that can help you find this information.

Chemical engineers working in industry have to know about markets, capital investments, cost estimation, construction, transportation, budgeting, and more.   Yet the tools used for finding business and market information are different from those used for technical information.

More than two years after walking away from negotiations and 18 months after losing all access to current journal articles, the University of California system and Elsevier have struck an ambitious, landmark deal to restore library access to thousands of Elsevier journals and allow UC authors to publish all their papers open access.  The four-year "pilot" agreement is complex and raises many questions, especially around its "multipayer" model, where the library and author grant funds share the cost of author processing charges (APCs), on top of a base library fee that starts out at $10.7 million per year.   APCs will be discounted by 15% (10% for Cell Press and Lancet titles).  Authors can opt out if they wish, and publish regular pay-to-read articles.  Authors with no grant funds to contribute will have their APCs covered by the library.  How all this works in practice, and what it means for many smaller, less wealthy institutions facing similar sustainability challenges with large commercial publishers, remains to be seen. chemical suppliers information

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