American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— March 1998 —
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- Why teach chemical information?
- What to teach?
- Ideal chemical information curriculum
- Tailoring presentation to your audience (external site)
- Choosing the Right Tool for the Job (external site)
- Print Versus Electronic
- Strategies and Tactics for the Searcher (external site)
- Copyright
- Ways to teach:
- How to Start
- Types of Presentations
- Integrated In-class Presentation
- Advantages/disadvantages/considerations (external site)
- Summary Survey Results
- Examples:
- Organic Course
- Selected Resources in Organic Chemistry
- Basic Handbooks (external site)
- Dictionary of Organic Compounds
- Organic Synthesis (external site)
- Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry
- Why Teach?
- Description of Beilstein (external site)
- Structure and Reaction Searching
- Integration into a Sophomore Organic Chemistry Course
- Selected Resources in Organic Chemistry
- Inorganic Course (external site)
- Analytical Course (external site)
- Organic Course
- Online Class Demonstrations
- Workshop
- Advantages/disadvantages/considerations
- Examples
- CAS Online via STN (external site)
- Structure Searching Using STN Express (external site)
- Short Course
- Advantages/disadvantages/considerations
- Examples (external site)
- Indepth course
- Advantages/disadvantages/considerations (external site)
- Examples
- Brigham Young University: Chemistry 391
- Connecticut State University: Chemistry 435: Literature of Chemistry
- Drexel University: Chemistry 767: Chemical Information Retreival
- Imperial College of Chemistry: The Electronic Chemistry Library (external site)
- Indiana University: Chemistry 400: Chemical Information Sources and Services
- Pennsylvania State University: Chem 400: Chemical Literature
- University of California at Santa Barbara: Chem 184/284: Chemical Literature (external site)
- University of Pennsylvania: Exercise 3: Postdoctoral Positions Information
- University of Scranton
- Independent Study
- Integrated In-class Presentation
- Barriers to Teaching Information and Possible Fixes
- Core Resources in Chemistry
- Primary Literature
- Journals
- Patents
- Technical Reports (external site)
- Conferences (external site)
- Dissertations (external site)
- Secondary Literature
- Data Collections
- Handbooks, Encyclopedias, and Treatises (external site)
- Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
- Why Teach?
- Description of Gmelin (external site)
- Sample Assignment (out of sequence)
- Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry (out of sequence)
- Spectra
- Abstracts and Indexes
- Overview (external site)
- Bibliographic and Citation Databases
- Chemical Abstracts: Basic
- Chemical Abstracts: Indepth
- CAS Online (external site)
- Science Citation Index
- Important Abstracts and Indexes in Science and Engineering (external site)
- Structure and Reaction Databases
- Academic Plans for Online Databases
- Internet Teaching
- Electronic Publications (external site)
- Major Internet Sources
- Data Collections
- Primary Literature
- Attachments