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Chemistry 470

A course guide for Chemistry Thesis Students at Reed College

Thesis Basics

How to Write a Chemistry Thesis

Departmental expectations

Copyright Help for Theses and Other Projects

Finding Resources

Browsing Resources Books and Background , i.e.,  preliminary survey of the literature,  can help you get a sense of what has been done before, what questions you need to answer & how you should go about conducting your research. Contains helpful information for browsing and finding books and journal articles. 

Chemistry Guide Reference Sources are extremely useful when looking for background information, facts and data.

InterLibrary Loan can be used to access articles that are not included in Reed's subscriptions or collection. 

Databases —Advanced tips & alerts

SciFinder Scholar

Scopus

PubMed (tips & tricks)

You might want to look at general search tips.

Organizing research tips & discussion

Citation Guide

Data management is an important part of the research process. If you can't find your data, you can't reproduce it! We will provide tips and a framework to help you organize your data.