CHEM 070 First-Year Seminar: You don't have to be a rocket scientist
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Books for this course - CHEM 070
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 by 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)
Author's Guide for submitting an article to the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (online)
This Course Guide
In this guide you will find information on finding articles, scientific websites, popular information sources, writing resources, a library catalog search box, "citation builder" tool and other library resources.
Finding Articles
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UNC-CH Library WebsiteFind information on academic areas of all subjects including journal articles, ebooks and other reliable sources.
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Academic Search PremierFind information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.
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AccessScience
- Reference resource covering major scientific disciplines with links to primary sources
- Online equivalent to the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology
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Google ScholarEnables 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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PubMedDatabase of biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine covering journal articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, biology and public health from 1950 to the present; multiple mobile apps available, provides access to MEDLINE, etc. Includes links to full text of UNC-CH's electronic journal subscriptions.
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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; includes scientific, technical, medical, social science and arts and humanities disciplines and indexes over 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including over 340 book series. Like Web of Science, Scopus allows researchers to perform citation searches to see how many times a work has been cited, by whom, and to rank searches by times cited, for the period 1996 -present, as well as its curated index of over 375 scientific web pages and over 24 million patents.
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SciFindern
- Information from the Chemical Abstracts Service databases
- Tool for chemists, contains information on chemical reactions, substances and references
- Information on organic and inorganic substances and sequences
- Broad range of scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science
Note: Users must first register with their UNC email accounts before accessing this resource. Register: http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=22CACA07X86F35055X223F8A761E25479081
Scientific Websites
Government Science Websites:
Popular Sources
These sources are not scholarly, but may give you a good idea of current research trends and topics.
Science Librarian
orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4574Kenan Science Library
Tutorial - Researching in the Sciences
Using Find @ UNC
If an article search indicates we don't have an item:
- Click the "Find @ UNC" link or button.
- If available, click an article link. If not, click the link for the journal title.
- Still can't find it? Request it from another library through Interlibrary Loan.
Interlibrary Loan
Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.
Design Guides for Posters & Presentations
Design guide for Academic Posters
Design guide for Presentations
Poster printing services:
Spoonflower $18 (cloth, 1 yard = 38”x42”) + $3 shipping for 7 day standard shipping
VistaPrint ~$25 + shipping for 36”x42”
PhDPoster.com ~$40 for 36”x42” (free pickup at the Health Science Library between 10a-6p)
UNC Printstop ~$48 for 36”x42”
- Last Updated: Jan 13, 2022 9:28 AM
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