This undergraduate level research guide includes research methods plus lists to commonly used databases and reference materials. It also includes information to help students locate books and journals. Site-licensed software, useful web sites, and links to key lab safety resources are also included. The goal of this guide is to provide foundational support to the broad array of chemical engineering course assignments and to help foster information literacy skills.

This guide contains a list of resources on written, visual, and oral communication as well as a information about selected style guides and reference managers. The written communication section includes subtopics of the flow of chemical information, laboratory notebooks, and data access and preservation. The visual communication section includes brief information about posters. A short list of links are included about ethics and intellectual property.

Discusses requirements, general rules, and regulations for successfully and correctly citing the scientific literature and especially the chemical literature. Provides further reading and examples of citations in ACS style for journal articles, books, and book chapters. Presents two examples for common literature reference management software. This presentation is a short part of a two-lesson course block about topic searching, citation databases, preparing and printing posters, and citing scientific literature in the lecture "Naturwissenschaften und Gesellschaft 3" (Science and Society 3).