LibGuides: Chemistry 470: Home

Outline

How to Write a Chemistry Thesis
- Departmental expectations
- How to get copyright permission.
Finding Resources
- Background Research, 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.
- Reference Sources are extremely useful when looking for background information, facts and data.
- Books
- Journal articles
- ILL
Databases —Advanced tips & alerts
- SciFinder Scholar
- Scopus
- PubMed (tips & tricks)
- You might want to look at general search tips.
Organizing research tips & discussion
- Citation management.
- 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.