CHEM 070 First-Year Seminar: You don't have to be a rocket scientist

Citation Builder

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Researching in the Sciences (video)

MLA Formatting and Style Guide (online)

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. 

• AccessScience Reference resource covering major scientific disciplines with links to primary sources
• America's News

  America's News is the most comprehensive U.S.newspaper resource available. It provides information on people, issues, and events in the local area or around the country. Updated daily, America's Newspapers offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from newspapers nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of 827 newspapers - with 75% of these sources not available in any other library database.
• 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

These sources are not scholarly, but may give you a good idea of current research trends and topics.

Department of Energy - Science & Innovation

World Health Organization - Climate change

Design guide for Academic Posters

Design guide for Presentations

If an article search indicates we don't have an item:

1) Click the button.

2) If available, click an article link, if not, click the journal link.

3) Can't find it? Request it from another library through Interlibrary Loan.