I’ve plumbed the depths of Knovel before now but having just chatted with the lovely lady from Elsevier who teaches people like your lecturers about the latest developments in our academic information resources, I wanted to pass on news of these latest exciting new tools and features that have been added recently.
Engineering Village is like a version of the EBSCO Discovery Service designed specifically for engineers. It is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world, comprising no less than ten chemistry, engineering, and earth science databases.
Not the Royal Shakespeare Company (now there’s a free app we would like to see!) but the Royal Society for Chemistry’s Interactive Periodic Table. You don’t have to be studying Chemistry to love this app, you just have to like surprises …
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If you are looking into the impact of pollution and toxic chemicals released into the environment you should take a look at ECOTOX. A fantastic resource locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife, ECOTOX is maintained by …
Today is the anniversary of Dmitri Mandeleev’s birthday, the father of the periodic table. After previous attempts to put the periodic table of the elements into a meaningful order by relative atomic mass failed, Mandeleev finally succeeded by ordering the elements by atomic …
Over the Christmas holidays I had the good fortune to catch the Terry Frost exhibitions at The Exchange and Newlyn Art Gallery. I took advantage of the guided tour around each to understand more about his work (I bought the book too, but …
Reaction Chemistry & Engineering is a new, free e-journal now available for you to access for free from the Royal Chemistry Society. From fundamental, molecular level chemistry to large scale chemical production, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering brings together communities of chemists …
This is much more exciting than the dull poster that TOTD used to stare at during double chemistry each Saturday morning. The site is richly illustrated and the facts accompanying each element are facinating. Did you know that liquid oxgen …
Can you remember the periodic table? This fantastic site from the University of Nottingham will certainly make it a whole lot easier. Clicking on an element in the periodic table well launch a video explanation of that element which includes …
