Library: Chemistry: Learning at Bath

Find recommended reading

Library Lists
Library Lists helps you to find your recommended reading for each unit. It gives you easy access to e-books and links to the catalogue for print books. You can search by unit code or title. For example enter 'CH1' to find all year 1 units.
Managing Exam Stress Library List
Our Managing Exam Stress collection provides materials to help manage stress and anxiety as well as study skills tips to help you achieve success with your exams

Chemistry e-books
Most of your recommended texts can be accessed here, including the Oxford Chemistry Primers. You may need to use Chrome, there can be issues with other browsers.
How to download ebooks from BibliU
Oxford Learning Link - Chemistry
New supplementary resource website from OUP. It has student resources for a number of Chemistry books not on the old website.
Student resources for OUP books - Chemistry
Solutions to exercises in the Oxford Chemistry Primers and other self-test resources. This is being replaced by the site below but contains many resources that are not available in the new site.

Past exam papers
The Library provides you with access to Semester 1 and Semester 2 exam papers from the last 5 years, to help with revision. If you can't find the paper you are looking for it may be because:
• The unit code has changed
• It has been restricted by your Department
Please be aware that older papers might not be relevant to current course content.

Mobile Apps for chemists and chemical engineers
A comprehensive list of mobile apps for chemists, compiled by Grace Baysinger at Stanford University. Many but not all are are free of charge.

These Apps have been tested and are recommended by Library staff at University of Bath:

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3D Molecules

Nomenclature

Periodic Table

O'Reilly Learning This link opens in a new window
O'Reilly Learning is a collection of technical books from a number of publishers including Pearson and O'Reilly Media. The titles include many computing topics and programming and software guides. It also has a range of business and management titles. In addition to books, O'Reilly includes a large range of online training courses, on-demand learning materials and video resources.

Research Software Learning Online
A guide to research software online courses from O'Reilly Learning. Courses cover Excel, Git and GitHub, LaTEX, MATLAB, Python, R and RS Studio, SAS, SPSS, Stata and SQL.
Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
MASH helps all students at the University with mathematics and statistics problems.

Academic writing skills
Courses and one-to-one sessions for all students are provided by the Skills Centre.
Writing for Scientists
Library list of e-books with information on how to write in various science subjects, including journal articles and lab reports.

Skills for Study This link opens in a new window
Interactive tutorials with activities and tests covering: reading and note making, critical thinking skills and referencing and understanding plagiarism.

Information skills tutorial
How to find information from books and journals to use in your coursework: Moodle resource for University of Bath students.
Information skills for researchers
This multi-subject course is used by the Library to share presentations and other course material that we use in our Doctoral Skills training programme.
Web search guide
A guide to using internet search engines, Google databases and alternative tools.