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Chemistry 470

A research guide for Chemistry Thesis Students at Reed College

Thesis Basics

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.