Resources

MIT Resources

• MIT people directory
• Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology Intranet
• Electron Microscopy Lab Reservations
• MIT libraries
• MIT Open Access Policy
• Opt-out of MIT Open Access (due to publication in Nature, Science, etc.)
• ATLAS navigate the MIT world (make a purchase, request a repair, payroll, personal info, etc.)

EEL Resources

• An essay on the importance of stupidity in scientific research by Martin A. Schwartz.
• A collection of recommendations for processing and reporting data for oxygen oxygen electrocatalysis.
• An inspirational TED talk by Georges Whitesides talking about simplicity.
• Articles about gender and ethnic biases in science: In Pursuit of Female Chemists; Measuring Up; Reducing the Impact of Negative Stereotypes on the Careers of Minority and Women Scientists
• Essay in The Economist highlighting the process of replicating data and experiments in the lab.
• Tomorrow's Professor is a guide to help you prepare for, find, and succeed at academic careers in science and engineering.
• CatalysisCourse.com
• SunCat Summer School 2013 (Password required, ask Marcel)
• Virtual issue Solar Fuels. Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• How to get published in Nature Communications by Nicky Dean (Associate Editor)
• Helpful resources on scientific writing Ten simple rules for structuring papers and Ten simple rules for writing a response to reviewers.
• Publishing your research 101: Ep. 1 "How to Write a Paper to Communicate Your Research" (Interview with G. Whitesides)
• Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper
• Jens Nørskov's group's "CatApp" - a mobile web app for looking up calculated reaction and activation energies for elementary coupling reactions occurring on metal surfaces.
• MARVEL Distinguished Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials - a serie of recorded lectures on materials science and engineering both theory and experiment given at EPFL
• The demo version of Diamond to visualize crystal structures
• VESTA. Free, multi-platform software to visualize crystal structures
• EEL group wiki (login required)

Environmental Health and Safety

• SIRI MSDS database
• Chemical waste collection

Finding Information

• Web of Science (search for academic publications)
• Google Scholar (search for academic publications...with Google!)
• NIST Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)
• NIST Chemistry Web Book (thermodynamic data, spectra, etc.)
• SciFinder Scholar (search by structure, reaction, etc.)
• Knovel (virtual bookshelf with Polymer Handbook, Perry's, etc.)
• Springer Materials Database (formerly Landhold-Börnstein). A good resource to look up physical or crystallographic data
• Crystallography Open Database. A database for crystallographic information and cif-files.