American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— March 1998 —
Sources for Practice Questions
- Cooke, R.C. Online Searching Curriculum for Chemistry — Dialog’s Classroom Instruction Program for Chemical Education.
- Dialog Information Service, 1993.
Available from Dialog’s Classroom Instruction Office, Alexandria, VA 703/908-2388. - Using CAS Databases on STN. CAS Academic Instruction Program. Chemical Abstracts Service, 1994.
- Print and on WWW at http://info.cas.org/supp.html
- Using the CAS Registry File on STN. CAS Academic Instruction Program. CAS, 1996.
- Print and on WWW at http://info.cas.org/supp.html
- Searching STN: The Basics. 5 vols. Chemical Abstracts Service, 1990.
- (Out-of-Print)
- CAS Printed Access Tools, Chemical Abstracts Service, 1981.
- (Out-of-Print)
- ACS/SLA Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instruction Materials. Indiana University, Chemistry Library.
- Available from Gary Wiggins at Chemistry Library or via WWW at URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/cciimnro.html
- CICOURSE. Chemical Information Course via Internet. From Gary Wiggins, Indiana University, Chemistry
- Library.
Available via World Wide Web at: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/400home.html - Wiggins, Chemical Information Sources. McGraw-Hill, NY, 1991.
- Uses an accompanying disk.
- Wolman, Chemical Information: A Practical Guide to Utilization. 2nd ed. Wiley, NY 1988.
- Mellon, Chemical Publications: Their Nature and Use. 5th ed. McGraw-Hill, NY 1982.
- The Chemical Information Instructor, quarterly column in J. Chem. Ed., July 1991+
- See especially articles by Abrash, Jenkins, Somerville.