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Citation Help Guide - Information, tips, and examples of different citations styles

Zotero - A free citation-management tool that keeps sources organized and generates in-text citations and bibliographies

BibTex - Citation format for LaTex document prep software.

American Chemical Society Publications This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles published in American Chemical Society journals
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition This link opens in a new window
Covers scientific and medical research

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database that covers research across all academic fields

Google Scholar
A freely accessible web search engine that indexes scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines

PubChem
Free searchable database of chemical structures and data from the National Library of Medicine
ChemSpider
Free searchable database of chemical structures provided by the Royal Chemical Society
DrugBank
Detailed drug data
ChemRxiv
ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
OpenAlex
OpenAlex is a bibliographic catalog of scientific papers, authors, and institutions accessible in open-access mode. Indexing over 250M scholarly works from 250k sources, with extra coverage of humanities, non-English languages, and the Global South. Links to 90M disambiguated authors and 100k institutions are included, and they are enriched with topic information, SDGs, citation counts, and more.

Warning: Because OpenAlex uses artificial intelligence and automatic algorithms to index articles, it contains many superfluous or false entries, often resulting in catalog entries that do not reflect scientific community standards for publication.

Khan Academy: Chemistry
Free video lessons and tutorials on chemistry concepts and topics
Nature: Chemistry
Chemistry news and research from one of the leading scientific publications

Science This link opens in a new window
News and current research across science disciplines. Browse by topic or see the latest news.

ScienceNews
Scientific news and blog posts. Includes "ScienceNews for Students," a news section geared toward student scientists.