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Chemistry: Websites

Recommended Websites

General Websites

  • American Chemical Society: One of the world’s largest scientific societies and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research.
  • ChemCollective Tutorials: Tutorials, online courses, and much more. 
  • Compound Interest - Chemistry Infographics: Compound Interest takes a closer look at the chemical compounds we come across on a day-to-day basis, explaining them with easy-to-understand graphics.
  • Khan Academy - Chemistry: This site provides an extensive interactive video library, a community for questions and answers, a large bank of practice questions, and many more resources to help you to succeed in chemistry.
  • Physical Reference Data: Science and technology standards. 
  • TED Talks - Chemistry: A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Chemistry.
  • Science.gov: Official website of the U.S. government providing ready access to  federally funded scientific research results.
  • ThoughtCo - Chemistry: Resources for students and teachers. Articles cover basic chemistry, answers common chemistry questions and more advance topics.
  • VIPEr: Inorganic chemistry resources. 

Publications

  • Aldrichimica Acta: An open-access, international forum for the frontiers of chemical research. It publishes topical and insightful reviews, written by prominent chemists from around the world and covering a variety of topics usually based on a synthetic theme in organic, organometallic, and bio-organic chemistry.
  • The Chemical Society of Japan - Journals

Science News

Website Domains

Common website domains

.edu = College/university websites 

.gov = Government websites - great for statistics, reports

.org = Nonprofit organizations, but can be used by any kind of organization

.com = Businesses/commercial sites

How to limit your search results to a specific domain:

Example: periodic table site:.edu

Example: electrons to molecules site:.gov