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1. THE PUBLICATION PROCESS: PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY SOURCES
Wiggins, Gary "What is Chemical Information?" 2000 (August 20). URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/acs800/index.html
Barcelon-Yang, Cynthia S. et al. "Information Retrieval." Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 1995, 14, 220-276.
2. GUIDES TO CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES AND DATABASES
Wiggins, Gary. “Overview of databases/data sources.” in Gasteiger, Johann, ed. Handbook of Chemoinformatics: From Data to Knowledge in 4 Volumes. Wiley-VCH: 2003, v. 2, pp. 496-506. PDF File
Ridley, Damon D. Information Retrieval: SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar. Chichester, England; New York: Wiley, 2002.
Katcher, Brian S. MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching in PubMed and Other Interfaces. 2d ed. San Francisco: The Ashbury Press, 2006.
NLM Gateway Your entrance to the knowledge resources of the National Library of Medicine
Cambridge Structural Database Documentation
Culp, Bartow. "Chemistry: The Central Science." Library Journal, Aug 2000, 125(13), 65-68.
Schwarzwalder, Robert. "Engineering & Technical Resources on the Internet." Online User Mar/Apr 1996, 2(2), 38-41.
3. GENERAL INFORMATION ON COMPUTER SEARCHING
Fisanick, William; Amaral, Nancy J.; Metanomski, W. Val, Shively, Eric R.; Soukup, Kathryn M.; Stobaugh, Robert E. "Chemical Abstracts Service Information System." Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry," 1998, 1, 277-315.
How and Where to Search: General
4. CURRENT AWARENESS, REVIEWS, AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY
Garfield, Eugene. "Reviewing Review Literature: Part 1 Definitions and Uses of Reviews." Current Contents May 4, 1987, 3-6.
5. BACKGROUND READING: DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND OTHER BOOKS
6. SEARCHING BY AUTHOR OR ORGANIZATION NAME AND BY KNOWN CITATIONS
Huber, Charles F. "SciSearch on STN: Unique Features for Sophisticated Searching." Database 1995, 18(2), 52-54, 56-60, 62.
Maddox, John. "Making Publication More Respectable." Nature 2 June 1994, 369, 353.
Weisgerber, David W. "Author Names in Chemical Abstracts." CHMINF-L, Chemical Information Sources Discussion List 10 May 1994. http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html
7. SEARCHING BY SUBJECT
Roth, Dana. "The Role of Subject Expertise in Searching for the Chemical Literature . . . and Pitfalls That Await the Inexperienced Searcher." Database February 1985, 43-46.
8. CHEMICAL NAME AND FORMULA SEARCHING
Krumpolc, M.; Trimakas, D.; Miller, C. Searching Chemical Abstracts Online in Undergraduate Chemistry. Part 2, Registry (Structure) File: Molecular formulas, Names, and Name Fragments." Journal of Chemical Education 1989, 66(1), 26-29.
Sci.chem FAQ - Part 3 of 7 Subject: 12. Nomenclature
9. STRUCTURE SEARCHING
Structure Searching in CAS Online Using STN Express: An Introductory Workshop (Baysinger, Stanford)
Beilstein and Gmelin CrossFire Databases (Wixson, Rowe, Wisconsin)
How and Where to Search: Specialized Sources
10. CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND REACTION SEARCHING
Ridley, Damon D. "Strategies for Chemical Reaction Searching in SciFinder." J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 2000, 40(5), 1077-1084.
Somerville, Arleen N. "Information Sources for Organic Chemistry, 1. Type of reaction and name reactions." J. Chem. Educ. 1991, 68(7), 553-561.
Somerville, Arleen N. "Information Sources for Organic Chemistry, 2. Functional group chemistry." J. Chem. Educ. 1991, 68(10), 842-853.
Somerville, Arleen N. "Information Sources for Organic Chemistry, 3. Reagents and solvents." J. Chem. Educ. 1992, 69(5), 379-386.
Lee, Albert W.M.; Tse, C.L. "Learning Name Reactions and Name Apparatuses Through Crossword Puzzles." J. Chem. Educ. 1994, 71(2), 1071-1072.
11. CHEMICAL SAFETY AND TOXICOLOGY INFORMATION
Yang, Chihae; Benz, R. Daniel; Cheeseman, Mitchell A. "Landscape of Current Toxicity Databases and Database Standards." Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development December 2005, 9(1), 124-133.
Stoss, Frederick W. "The Right Chemistry: Resources for Environmental Analysis and Reference," Internet Reference Services Quarterly 2001, 5(4), 57-67.
12. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Odegaard, Gladys; Hurd, Julie M. "Spectra: A Bibliography of Sources." in: Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Libraries: Adding Faces to the Facts. Stankus, Tony, ed. Haworth Press: New York, London, Sydney, 1991. (Also published as Science & Technology Libraries 1991, 11(4), 173-208.
Ember, Lois R. "Raising the Bar for Quality Drugs (Independent U.S. Pharmacopeia sets legal standards enforceable by FDA)." C&EN March 19, 2001, 26-32.
13. PHYSICAL PROPERTY INFORMATION
Wagner, A. Ben. "Finding Physical Properties of Chemicals: A Practical Guide for Scientists, Engineers, and Librarians." Science and Technology Libraries 2001 (published Fall 2003) 21(3/4), 27-45.
- Text (for personal and professional use only)
Northup, D.E.; Cromer, D.E. "Thermodynamic Properties of Substances: A Selected Annotated Guide to the Printed Literature." Sci. Technol. Libr. Fall 1993, 14(1), 57-95.
14. CHEMICAL PATENT SEARCHING
Simmons, Edlyn S.; Kaback, Stuart M. "Patents (Literature)." Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 1996, 18, 102-156.
Armitage, Robert A. "U.S. Patent Laws Change." Chem. Eng. News 1995, 73(24), 30-36.
Berks, A. H. "Patent Information in Biotechnology." Trends Biotech. 1994, 12(9), 352-364.
Lambert, Nancy. "Patent Searching: What, Why, When, Where?" Online User 1996, 2(6), 45-46, 48-51.
Maynard, John T.; Peters, Howard M. Understanding Chemical Patents: A Guide for the Inventor. 2nd ed. American Chemical Society: Washington, D.C., 1991.
Wherry, Timothy Lee. Patent Searching for Librarians. American Library Association: Chicago, 1995.
Wherry, Timothy Lee. The Librarian's Guide to Intellectual property in the Digital Age: Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks. Chicago: Americal Library Association, 2002.
Amernick, Burton A. Patent Law for the Nonlawyer. Chapman & Hall: New York; London, 1991.
Communication in Chemistry
15. CHEMISTRY NEWSGROUPS, DISCUSSION LISTS, BLOGS
Wiggins, Gary. "CHMINF-L, The Chemical Information Sources Discussion List," JASIS; Journal of the American Society for Information Science September 1995, 46(8), 614-617.
An Introduction to Usenet News and the trn Newsreader (Jon Bell)
16. MOLECULAR VISUALIZATION TOOLS AND SITES
Papers from "Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education: Experiences and Visions," an on-line conference, beginning May 5, 2006. Text
- Hanson, Robert M.; Willighagen, Egon, Vervelle, Nicolas; Driscoll, Timothy; Howard, Miguel. "Jmol: Open-source molecular visualization and analysis." ConfChem 06, May-June 2006. Text
- Kuhn, Stefan; Helmus, Tobias; Willighagen, Egon; Steinbeck, Christoph. "JChemPaint viewer and editor applets: Interactive 2D molecular diagrams." Text
- Lancashire, Robert John. "Developing spectroscopic representations on the web." ConfChem 2006, May-June 2006. Text
17. SCIENCE WRITING AIDS
Coghill, Anne M.; Garson, Lorrin R., eds. The ACS Style Guide : Effective Communication of Scientific Information. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
White, Howard J., ed. Reporting Experimental Data: Selected Reprints. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1993.
Kanare, Howard M. Writing the Laboratory Notebook. Washington, DC: American Chemical, 1985.
Miscellaneous
18. CHEMICAL HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, DIRECTORIES, AND INDUSTRY SOURCES
Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Libraries: Adding Faces to the Facts. Stankus, Tony, ed. Haworth Press: New York, London, Sydney, 1991. (Also published as Science & Technology Libraries 1991, 11(4),.
Flaxbart, David. "The World Before 1907: Searching for Chemical Literature Before 1907." SLA Chemistry Division E-Newsletter January-March 2006, 20(3), 4-9.
Flaxbart, David. "Searching the Chemical Literature Before Chemical Abstracts." (Pathfinder, University of Texas Libraries)
19. TEACHING AND STUDY OF CHEMISTRY
20. CAREERS IN CHEMISTRY
21. CHEMINFORMATICS
- Chemometrics and chemoinformatics. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, c2005.
- Bunin, Barry A. Chemoinformatics: Theory, Practice, and Products. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007
- Bajorath, Juergen, ed. Chemoinformatics: Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Drug Discovery. Totowa, N.J.: Humana Press, c2004.
- Gasteiger, Johann; Engle, Thomas, eds. Chemoinformatics: A Textbook. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2003.
- Gasteiger, Johann, ed. Handbook of Chemoinformatics: From Data to Knowledge. 4 vol. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2003.
- Leach, Andrew R.; Gillet, Valerie J. An Introduction to Chemoinformatics. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003.
- Oprea, Tudor I. Chemoinformatics in Drug Discovery. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2005. (Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry, v. 22)
- Pirrung, Michael C. Molecular Diversity and Combinatorial Chemistry: Principles and Applications. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004.
- Ekins, Sean, ed. Computer Applications in Pharmaceutical Research and Development. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2006.
- Rzepa, Henry S.; Cass, Marion E. "Progress towards a holistic web: integrating OpenSource programs, semantic data, wikis, and podcasts." ConfChem 06, May-June 2006. Text
- Introduction to the Semantic Web (Ivan Herman, W3C; Slides of the tutorial given at the WWW2006 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, on the 24th of May, 2006.) Text
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