Evaluating Websites
Remember to always evaluate a website before using it for research purposes.
Some criteria for evaluating websites include:
- Accuracy
- Authority
- Coverage
- Currency
- Objectivity
- Purpose
- Support
You can always ask a librarian or your professor for an opinion about a specific website as well.
(Ruth Szpunar at DePauw University)
Periodic Table
- Discovery and Assignment of Elements with Atomic Numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118An International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announcement
- Knowledge Door
Highly recommended by Choice Reviews Online. - Visual Elements Periodic TableA Royal Society of Chemistry website
- Atomic Structure and the Periodic TableFrom the website: "This "online textbook" is designed to provide a thorough, in-depth treatment of this topic at the first-year college or advanced-HS levels, with a special focus on the underlying concepts." Highly recommended in Choice Reviews Online, 2008
- Chemistry in its ElementA Royal Society of Chemistry resource
- Chemistry of the Main Group ElementsAndrew R. Barron, Chemistry of the Main Group Elements. OpenStax CNX. Mar 22, 2014 http://cnx.org/contents/f46e8679-ee00-4073-9f5e-a87ca9955a9e@25.9@25.9. © Mar 22, 2014 Andrew R. Barron. Textbook content produced by Andrew R. Barron is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 license.
- Chemistry World - Our elements podcastsPublished by the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Comic Book Periodic TableDepartment of Chemistry, University of Kentucky
- ElementsA collection of chemistry videos by the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation.
- Element Scarcity – EuChemS Periodic Table
EuChemS (European Chemical Society) - Periodic Table - ChemicoolA commercial site, Chemicool was the brainchild of David D. Hsu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The data for this site was acquired with help from the following people: Cabrol D.; Moore J. W and Kotz J. C. Additionally, the Perkin-Elmer Periodic Table v2.02g was used for Atomic mass, density, volume, group, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, specific heat, and shells.
- Periodic Table Of The ElementsMinerals Education Coalition
- Tom Lehrer's The Elements Song
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- NEW Periodic Table SongAsapSCIENCE
Selected Papers on the Periodic Table by Eric Scerri by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781848164253Publication Date: 2009-07-31
Hunting the Elements (DVD) by Call Number: DVD 546 H92ISBN: 9781608836901Publication Date: 2012DVD by NOVA. THIS TITLE IS ALSO TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT THE NOVA WEBSITE, AT THE LINK IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THIS ENTRY.
- Hunting the Elements
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A NOVA VIDEO. THIS TITLE IS TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT THIS NOVA WEBSITE. ALSO AVAILABLE AS A DVD IN THE SBU BOLIVAR & SPRINGFIELD COLLECTIONS. CALL NUMBER: DVD 546 H92
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