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Chemistry Laboratory and Study Essentials

Chemistry Library Course Resources

If you you are struggling with a concept from a course, the textbook can be a good place to go for more information. The Chemistry Library has course reserves, which are the textbooks that are required in chemistry courses. There are also some solution manuals that will have solutions to all textbook problems. These textbooks are short term loans, so they can be borrowed for 72 hours. To borrow a required textbook, visit the Chemistry Library service desk!

Free Online Resources

Open textbooks are free, online textbooks that are available to anyone. LibreTexts and OpenStax are two websites with open textbooks on chemistry as well as many other subjects. These can be especially useful if you need a source for a lab report for foundational information. For example, the relationship between functional groups and their spectra. You can put the information you are looking for into Google followed by LibreText or OpenStax and you will often find a helpful source. You can also use your course textbooks for this purpose.