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A masterlist of other websites, textbooks, YouTube videos, and books to help with your studies, research and revision.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Referencing guide:

- Cite Them Right

- Cite this for me

- Phrasebank to help with essays

Free notes and textbooks: 

Studocu

Grammar checker:

Grammarly (available as a browser extension)

Money financing for students:

Save the Student

Others:

New Scientist (print and online magazine)

BBC iPlayer science and nature documentaries

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WEBSITES TO AID STUDIES 

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Science and maths:

MME Revise

Cognito Resources

Access Tuition

Maths Genie 

LibreTexts: biology, chemistry, physics, maths, engineering, and medicine

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HELP WITH RESEARCH

 

Databases: 

- PubMed 

- MEDLINE (by National Library of Medicine)

- ScienceDirect 

- Web of Science

- Participate in actual research: Zooniverse- citizen science 

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- Top multi-disciplinary journal in the field: Nature

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Pharmacology sites:

- Pharmgkb

- Drug Bank

- Check which drugs are in trial

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TEXTBOOKS FOR PHARMACOLOGY AND RELATED

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Katzung's Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 16th edition by Todd Vanderah, PhD

The Top 100 Drugs: Clinical Pharmacology and Practical Prescribing by Andrew Hitchings, Daniel Burrage, Dagan Lonsdale and Emma Baker​​

        

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES TEXTBOOKS

Biology:

- Campbell & Reece 

Molecular biology and genetics: Molecular Biology of the Cell. 4th edition

- Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish et al

- Anatomy and physiology: Marieb

- Principles of Animal Physiology by Moyes and Schulte
- Animal Physiology by Hill, Wyse, and Anderson
- Developmental Biology by Barresi and Gilbert

- Cancer: The Biology of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg 

Biochemistry:

- Medical Biochemistry by N. Mallikarjuna Rao

Neuroscience:

- Purves et. al

Kandel 

Immunology:

- Immunobiology, 5th edition The Immune System in

Health and Disease 

Genetics:

- Emery's Elements of Medical Genetics and Genomics by Turnpenny & Ellard

Lewin’s Genes by Krebs, Goldstein, and Kilpatrick
- Human Molecular Genetics by Strachan and Read

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CHEMISTRY TEXTBOOKS

 

Physical chemistry: 

- Atkins Physical Chemistry (latest edition)

- Solid State Chemistry (Fourth Edition) by Lesley Smart and Elaine Moore

Organic chemistry: 

- Jonathan Clayden Organic Chemistry (latest edition)

Inorganic chemistry: 

- Atkins Physical Chemistry (latest edition)

- Housecroft Inorganic Chemistry (latest edition)

- Electronic Structure (Basic Theory and Practical Methods) by Richard M. Martin

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- Two-minute Neuroscience

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- Amoeba Sisters (biology related)

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- Khan Academy (all STEM based)

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- TEDx Talk

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- Royal Society (range of science videos)

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- NumberPhile

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- patrickJMT (maths)

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- Tyler DeWitt (general chemistry)

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- Crash Course

 

- Stanford Medicine (wellness) 

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PHYSICS

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Resources:

    - Astronomy Picture of the Day

- NASA STEM activities

Textbooks:

 â€‹- University Physics by Young and Freedman

  - Introduction to Electrodynamics by Griffiths

- Introduction to Elementary Particles by Griffiths

- Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by Griffiths

- Modern Quantum Mechanics (Third Edition) by J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano

​- Introductory Statistical Mechanics by Bowley & Sanchez​

- Statistical Mechanics: A Survival Guide by Glazer & Wark

- Electricity and Magnetism by Morin and Purcell​

- Concepts in Thermal Physics by Blundell and Blundell

 - Introduction to Solid State Physics by Mittel & McEuen​

- Solid State Physics by Ashcroft and Mermin

- Space, Time, and Geometry by Sean M.

- Density Functional Theory by David S. Sholl and Janice A. Steckel

The Physics of Semiconductors: An Introduction Including Nanophysics and Applications by Marius Grundmann

 

MATHS

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      Textbooks:

- Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers by Riley Benson and Hobson

- Mathematics for Natural Scientists 1 and 2  by Lev Kantorovich

- Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Kreyszig 

- Thomas's Calculus by George B. Thomas

- Mathematical Methods for Science students by G Stephenson

- Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A. Gallian

Read this article on how to excel in maths

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COMPUTER SCIENCE AND RELATED

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Resources:

- Codeacademy

- W3Schools (has tutorials for HTML/ CSS/ Javascript, Python, Java, and many other languages)

Adacomputerscience

TeachComputing

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INFORMATIVE YOUTUBE CHANNELS

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