chemistry literature searching: the power-lap edition (part 1)
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Chemistry Literature Searching
The Power-Lap editionfor CHEM381 – 2012
Day 1
Power Lap! Chemical data
Last year we learnt…
We still want to learn…
We’ll cover…
Week 1 ChemSpider (done! ) What the Literature is The Research Process Google Scholar SciFinder (part 1)
Week 2 SciFinder (part 2) Web of Science Other data sources (Prices, MSDS) Citing in ACS style
The Literature
You
The Research Process
Define your topic
What information do you need?
Who would have written about it? Where?
Find information
Judge it – is it reliable? relevant?
– does it point in new directions?
– is it enough? or do you still need more?
Analyse and synthesise
Cite all sources!
Power Lap! The Literature
Questions
Register for SciFinder(See the video on the subject guide)
Find 1 article
Pick a question suggested by the article(You can change your question
later!)
Homework!
Chat
Meet
Contact me