This course will prepare graduate students for a career in the physical sciences and develop competency in the responsible conduct of research in both ethical and safety standpoints.
These are the main tools presented in class. VCU Libraries has a lot more to offer. Use the tabs on the left if you need more detail than is presented here.
Aside from being useful for locating research articles in all areas of chemistry, it has property and reaction information for molecules and allows you to search by structure.
Citation databases that can be searched by topic and that has connections between sources, including journal articles and conference papers, that cite each other. It includes searches by cited reference as well as regular searches by keywords, title, and author.
Online style guide with information on writing in science, including a chapters on citing sources using ACS citation styles and on ethics in scientific writing and publication.
A collection of chemical and chemical-related dictionaries, including the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Look for the link to the handbook on the bottom of the page within CHEMnetBASE
This collection of electronic reference books in engineering has full-text searching of books and interactive tables to access data such as materials properties.
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