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Free Chemistry Materials
With the cost of living slowly making its way towards completely unaffordable, there has been a huge drive towards making the most of the free goods and services on offer by many businesses. While this is all well and good in most parts of your life, what does this mean for people who have an interest in science and specifically chemistry? You will be glad to know that there is a whole host of free chemistry materials available to those who are willing to work that little bit harder to find them. Let us take you through some basic ideas of how you can get your hands on some free chemistry materials of your own.
The World Wide Web
While the internet is a hive for all sorts of information, it has seemingly become known as somewhat of a den of iniquity amongst many people. While this is true to some degree there are still masses of resources that are on offer that give you access to free chemistry materials of all different varieties. For example, many of the American universities have vast online archives available to everyone, not just their students. Here you can make your way through published papers, digitized books and sometimes even a lecture transcription or two.
Aside from these archives there are also websites that specialize in the distribution of free chemistry materials in the form of e-books. These can be downloaded and read at your leisure using:
- A laptop
- computer
- An e-reader, such as the Kindle
Other online resources include companies such as Wikipedia and About who offer a great archive of questions and information that can be accessed for free of charge from any computer with the internet.
Getting Your Hands on Free Materials
Of course the most common place that you can get your hands on some free chemistry materials will be your local library. This is often a great option as textbooks and scientific publications often have price tags in the hundreds of dollars range. As much as every scientist would love to have a massive private collection this is often not achievable. If your local library is big enough they should have a whole section dedicated to science and chemistry books, here you will find everything from explanations of chemistry experiments you can do at home right the way through to the latest scientific journals.
Some modern libraries also have access to a digital archive which allows you to download the required materials to a laptop or flash disk for later perusal. A great tip to remember when using library books is that you can photocopy any sections that are of interest to you as long as you are not intending to use them in any commercial way i.e. for resale. The only downside of the library is that you will eventually have to give your free chemistry materials back, but there is nothing stopping you from taking the same book out again! Take some time to browse around and you are sure to find much more material than you could have ever hoped for.