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This page is designed to provide online and offline sources of information to help you with your undergraduate course. These links should help you no matter which year you are in, from a simple book search in your first year to a comprehensive journal search for your final research project.

A guide to some simple calculations that you will use in chemistry

Follow the link and have a go at the questions here.

Web Search Engines

Search engines can be used to locate web pages related to a particular topic. The only trouble is there tends to be a large volume of information to sieve through and not all of it is necessarily correct - anyone can publish what ever they like. It can however be useful for finding links to more genuine sites like other universities or large companies.

Google scholar

This is a literature search of google taking you directly to abstracts of papers. It is basic but very useful!

yahoo

Takes you straight to a directory of sites about chemistry provided by yahoo.

chemfinder

A really good search engine for locating information about any chemical on the web. All you need is either its name, CAS number, or formula. Provides really useful information like density, melting point, boiling point etc. Really handy for labs and saves hours searching through books.

General Interest

ChemsSoc

A wide ranging website for the chemists, offering links to a variety of resources including other societies, learning resources, jobs and info on upcoming conferences and events.

ChemWeb

An online chemistry society, Although you need to register it is completely free. It brings you chemistry news and offers facilities including access to abstracts and databases. You can also purchase chemistry related books.

Royal Society of Chemistry

The website of the well-known and well-respected society provides access to a variety of products services and activities.

New Scientist

The online version of the magazine. Easy to read articles on all aspects of science and technology. All articles are online and free to access, cheaper than buying the magazine.

Science Magazine

A similar magazine to New Scientist although it is a bit more technical and science based rather than just general technology. The articles are free to read online so again it's the cheap option.

Useful Sites

ChemDex

An excellent website based at Sheffield University. This offers an extensive database of chemistry websites from around the world. This includes links to university departments all over the world and sites on almost every area of chemistry. It also has a search engine incorporated.

ChemPuter

A very handy site also based at Sheffield with several chemical calculators online for you to use. They will calculate a range of things including reaction yields, oxidation states and element percentages.

Periodic Table

Web Elements is an excellent online periodic table giving just about all the information you could ever want to know about each element. You can find out everything from its history to its electron binding energies.

Other Universities

It is often useful to find out how other universities do things and many have some useful resources available to anyone online such as tutorials or databases. Here are some links to the chemistry departments of universities with some of the best online facilities.

Cambridge University

Oxford University

Bristol University

Sheffield University

Imperial College

Liverpool University

Harvard University

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Andrew Gray, Emma Downie,
Sarah Hardcastle, Scott Baxter, and James Duncan.
Thanks to; Prof Tasker, Prof Yellowlees, Dr. Paul Murray and all those members of staff that gave up time to assist us.
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