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Chemistry Senior Seminar 2022 link to: UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals
| 1 no poverty | 2 zero hunger | 3 good health and well-being | 4 quality education | 5 gender equality | 6 clean water and sanitation |
| 7 affordable and clean energy | 8 decent work and economic growth | 9 industry, innovation and infrastructure | 10 reduced inequalities | 11 sustainable cities and communities | 12 responsible consumption and production |
| 13 climate action | 14 life below water | 15 life on land | 16 peace, justice and strong institutions | 17 partnerships for the goals |
Research funding is often dependent on government initiatives. As you research your chemical topic, think about how your chemical research idea might fit into the broad categories outlined in the UN goals above.
Search: "Goal" AND chem* AND (an area of Chemistry: Analytical, Biochemistry, Inorganic, Neurochemistry, Organic, Physical chemistry)
Search: "Goal" AND chem* AND (specific chemistry terms: testing apparatus, docking, optimization problem...)
Search: "Goal" AND chem* AND (specific terms: biochar, carbon dioxide, environmental impact, fracking, fossil fuels, geohazards, greenhouse gases, hydrogeological...)
Try searches in the resources below. What do you find?
- ScienceDirect ElsevierIncludes full-text research articles in the sciences. Does not support wild card searching instead of chem* use chemistry or chemical
- PubChemFind chemical data, articles and more. OpenAccess database from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Does not support wild card searching instead of chem* use chemistry or chemical
- Google ScholarOlder, most cited items appear at the top.
- Publicly Available Content DatabaseFull text for publicly available scholarly content from repositories such as arXiv, open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.
- WorldCat Discovery ConcordiaIf FindIt is not available or does not work...Search article title in WorldCat Discovery.
NOTE: Title search in WorldCat also limits ACS token use. - SAGE eJournal Premier CollectionArticles in sociological literature that may provide link to UN goals
Use a combination of these resources in your research.
Example: I used PubChem to find an article with full-text. After downloading the PDF to my computer I dragged it into the JSTOR Text Analyzer for more terms to search: incubation, meta analysis, carbon sequestration, pyrolysis. I used WorldCat Discovery to create this citation in ACS style.
Leng, L.; Xu, X.; Wei, L.; Fan, L.; Huang, H.; Li, J.; Lu, Q.; Li, J.; Zhou, W. Biochar Stability Assessment by Incubation and Modelling: Methods, Drawbacks and Recommendations. Science of the Total Environment 2019, 664, 11–23 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.298.
Exercise: Find a research article in Chemistry, Download the PDF and save to your computer. Create a citation for this article using WorldCat Discovery. Read/skim the article to find more terms or try the JSTOR Text Analyzer. Write down three terms you find. Try the new terms in a search. Do the results relate to your topic? Is the article you found a research article?