Chemistry & Biochemistry Research Guide

A lesson about every single element on the periodic table.

The Royal Society of Chemistry's interactive periodic table features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table. Click the tabs at the top to explore each section. Use the buttons above to change your view of the periodic table and view Murray Robertson’s stunning Visual Elements artwork. Click each element to read detailed information.

A PDF of the major areas on ACS journal web pages to assist you in refining your research search.

This is an open access chapter published under an ACS AuthorChoice License, which permits copying and redistribution of the chapter or any adaptations for non-commercial purposes.

A series of FAQs designed to help you use the ScienceDirect database. Includes tutorials.

Read about a variety of topics to help you use and understand PubChem. Includes tutorials.

PubChem Structure Search allows the PubChem Compound Database to be queried by chemical structure or chemical structure pattern. The PubChem Sketcher allows a query to be drawn manually. Users may also specify the structural query input by PubChem Compound Identifier (CID), SMILES, SMARTS, InChI, Molecular Formula, or by upload of a supported structure file format.

A PubMed website dedicated to online trainings on how to use PubMed resources.

A video tutorial on how to use MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). This tutorial shows how to build a targeted PubMed search starting in the MeSH database. It includes very brief background on MeSH terms and indexing. The video is 3 minutes long.