LibGuides: Accelerated Chemistry: Final Project: Websites

THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL RELIABLE CHEMISTRY WEBSITES

American Chemical Society
As a non-profit scientific organization with more than 140 years’ experience, we are a champion for chemistry, its practitioners and our global community of members. Explore resources from the ACS in the menu bar under Discover Chemistry.
CAS Common Chemisty
CAS Common Chemistry is an open community resource for accessing chemical information. Nearly 500,000 chemical substances from CAS REGISTRY® cover areas of community interest, including common and frequently regulated chemicals, and those relevant to high school and undergraduate chemistry classes. This chemical information, curated by our expert scientists, is provided in alignment with our mission as a division of the American Chemical Society.
ChemSpider
This website from the Royal Society of Chemistry is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
ChemSpider builds on the collected sources by adding additional properties, related information, and links back to original data sources. ChemSpider offers text and structure searching to find compounds of interest and provides unique services to improve this data by curation and annotation, and to integrate it with users’ applications.
Cool Chemistry Sites
"Everyone has favorite web sites. So do we." From the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at California Polytechnic State Univesity (aka CalPoly).
National Science Foundation: Chemistry & Materials Classroom Resources
The National Science Foundation is tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology...we ensure that research is fully integrated with education so that today's revolutionary work will also be training tomorrow's top scientists and engineers.
Periodic Table of Videos
All these videos are created by video journalist Brady Haran, featuring real working chemists from the University of Nottingham. Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab.
Royal Society of Chemistry: Education
Education resources for students and teachers from the UK's professional association whose mission is to advance the science of chemistry.
Science History Institute
The Science History Institute collects and shares the stories of innovators and of discoveries that shape our lives with a focus on preserving and interpreting the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry 2021
From the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Scroll down for the 2020 and 2019 Top Ten.

TO FIND RELIABLE WEBSITES

SweetSearch, A Search Engine for Students searches only credible websites approved by research experts. Note: Disregard ads that may appear at the top of your result list.

To find reliable websites using GOOGLE:

Limit your search to more reliable domains by including the phrase AND site:gov OR site:edu OR site:ac.uk (gov for US federal and state government agencies; edu for educational institutions in the US; ac.uk for educational institutions in the UK)
Limit your search to the American Chemical Society by including the phrase AND site:acs.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IDENTIFYING RELIABLE WEBSITES, SEE THE GUIDE FINDING AND EVALUATING WEBSITES

Use some of these fact/site-checking resources

Snopes - check stories to discover their veracity
FactCheck - search the special section called "SciCheck" that analyzes science-based articles
MediaBiasCheck - type the site you're looking at using the "search" function to see where it falls on the credibility gauge

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Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti

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Tips for Citing Websites in NoodleTools

PLEASE NOTE: Do not copy and paste complete citations from web pages if given. NoodleTools cannot generate footnotes from copies and pasted citation.

Remember: a website is an online source you discover through Google (or another search engine) as opposed to a subscription database you access through the library.

To cite a source on a website, choose Website.

Websites can contain many kinds of sources including: Reference articles, ebook content, journal articles, primary sources, newspaper articles, speech transcripts, images, etc.
If you can't determine it, select the source type from the list under Website in NoodleTools.
If it's not clear what type of source it is, choose Webpage.

The Hulbert Taft, Jr. Library

Accelerated Chemistry: Final Project: Websites

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THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL RELIABLE CHEMISTRY WEBSITES

TO FIND RELIABLE WEBSITES

SweetSearch, A Search Engine for Students searches only credible websites approved by research experts. Note: Disregard ads that may appear at the top of your result list.

To find reliable websites using GOOGLE:

Limit your search to more reliable domains by including the phrase AND site:gov OR site:edu OR site:ac.uk (gov for US federal and state government agencies; edu for educational institutions in the US; ac.uk for educational institutions in the UK)

Limit your search to the American Chemical Society by including the phrase AND site:acs.org

Use some of these fact/site-checking resources

If you have any questions, see
Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti

OR email us at

spadgett@taftschool.org

taylorp@taftschool.org

rpreviti@taftschool.org

We're here to help!

Tips for Citing Websites in NoodleTools

PLEASE NOTE: Do not copy and paste complete citations from web pages if given. NoodleTools cannot generate footnotes from copies and pasted citation.

If you would like help evaluating a source, see (or email) Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti.
We're happy to help!

The Hulbert Taft, Jr. Library

Accelerated Chemistry: Final Project: Websites

A Word About Wikipedia

THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL RELIABLE CHEMISTRY WEBSITES

TO FIND RELIABLE WEBSITES

SweetSearch, A Search Engine for Students searches only credible websites approved by research experts. Note: Disregard ads that may appear at the top of your result list.

To find reliable websites using GOOGLE:

Limit your search to more reliable domains by including the phrase AND site:gov OR site:edu OR site:ac.uk (gov for US federal and state government agencies; edu for educational institutions in the US; ac.uk for educational institutions in the UK)

Limit your search to the American Chemical Society by including the phrase AND site:acs.org

Use some of these fact/site-checking resources

If you have any questions, see Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti

OR email us at

spadgett@taftschool.org

taylorp@taftschool.org

rpreviti@taftschool.org

We're here to help!

Tips for Citing Websites in NoodleTools

PLEASE NOTE: Do not copy and paste complete citations from web pages if given. NoodleTools cannot generate footnotes from copies and pasted citation.

If you would like help evaluating a source, see (or email) Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti. We're happy to help!

If you have any questions, see
Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti

If you would like help evaluating a source, see (or email) Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti.
We're happy to help!