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Inclusive books in STEM
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African American Chemists
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ISBN: 9780841298385Publication Date: 2022-03-01This work highlights and celebrates the contributions African Americans in the chemical sciences have made, despite racial and gender barriers. Lesson plans accompany each chapter, enabling immediate incorporation of these stories into chemistry learning objectives. -
Algorithms of Oppression
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ISBN: 9781479849949Publication Date: 2018-02-20A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms -
Black Man in a White Coat
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ISBN: 9781250105042Publication Date: 2016-09-06One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. -
Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics
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ISBN: 9783030826574Publication Date: 2022-04-22The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), the oldest organization in the world for women in mathematics, had its fiftieth anniversary in 2021. This collection of refereed articles, reflects on women in mathematics and the organization as a whole. -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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ISBN: 9781400052189Publication Date: 2011-03-08Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine: -
The Jazz of Physics
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ISBN: 9780465034994Publication Date: 2016-04-26A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane. -
The Six
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ISBN: 9781982172824Publication Date: 2023-09-12An account of America's first women astronauts. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, Eventually, NASA opened the application process and six elite women were selected in 1978--Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon.
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AccessScienceReference resource covering major scientific disciplines with links to primary sources
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Google Scholar Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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Proquest CentralA general reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
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ScopusA large citation and abstracting database providing comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed journal and conference literature, with links to full-text where available through the library.
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Course Texts & Materials available in the library
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Cantor's Dilemma
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ISBN: 0385261837Publication Date: 1989-09-24For better readers, this is a novel about the machinations behind research and discoveries in science. -
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Writing and Citing
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ACS Guide to Scholarly CommunicationThis online style guide resource provides students, researchers, educators and librarians with the instruction and advice they need to master the art of scholarly communication (publications, presentations, data conventions and communicating with the public).
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Write Like a Chemist
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ISBN: 9780195367423Write Like a Chemist is a guide to chemistry-specific writing. It offers a structured approach to writing that targets four important chemistry genres: the journal article, conference abstract, scientific poster, and research proposal.
Outlines:
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How to write an outline (video)
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Why and how to create an outline (Purdue OWL)
Abstracts:
- UNC Writing Center - Abstracts - Excellent guide to composing abstracts. Also available as a PDF
Researching in the Sciences (videos)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (online)
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Scientific Websites
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"Science Cinema" DOE ScienceCinema is a multimedia search tool provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information, with video and audio files produced by DOE National Laboratories, other DOE research facilities, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
