Chemical Information Sources/Archive1

''This archive version of the Chemical_Information_Sources Wikibook gives a snapshot of the text as of March 7, 2015. Note that external links may become obsolete over time'' Preface

How and Where to Start
Chapter 1 The Publication Process: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources

Chapter 2 Guides to Chemical Information Sources and Databases

Chapter 3 General Search Strategies for Online Chemical Information

Chapter 4 Keeping Up and Looking Back: Current Awareness, Reviews, and Document Delivery

Chapter 5 Deep Background Reading: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Treatises, Monographs, and Other Books

How and Where to Search: General
Chapter 6 Author and Citation Searches

Chapter 7 Subject Searches

Chapter 8 Chemical Name and Formula Searches

Chapter 9 Structure Searches

How and Where to Search: Specialized
Chapter 10 Synthesis and Reaction Searches

Chapter 11 Chemical Safety and Toxicology Searches

Chapter 12 Analytical Chemistry Searches

Chapter 13 Physical Property Searches

Chapter 14 Patent Searches

Communicating in Chemistry
Chapter 15 Blogs, Social Networks, and Mailing Lists

Chapter 16 Molecular Visualization Tools and Sites

Chapter 17 Science Writing Aids

Miscellaneous
Chapter 18 Chemical History, Biography, Directories, and Industry Sources

Chapter 19 Teaching and Studying Chemistry

Chapter 20 Careers in Chemistry

Chapter 21 Cheminformatics

Supplemental Resources
/SIRCh/: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry (Links to Web resources with the same subject outline as the chapters on this page.)

/CIIM/: Chemical Information Instructional Materials (Web resources for more in-depth training on the topics discussed in the chapters.)

Problem Sets

CRSD: Chemical Reference Sources Database (a searchable database that covers reference books, commercial databases, etc.)

Information Competencies for Chemistry Undergraduates: the Elements of Information Literacy Wikibook, July 2012- ; from the Special Libraries Association, Chemistry Division and the American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information

CHMINF-L: Chemical Information Sources Discussion List (a listserv in existence since 1991 with many chemistry librarians, chemists, publishers, and others interested in chemical information; has a searchable archive of all posts since its inception.)

As a general rule, vendor training material should be consulted for the most up-to-date information for all the resources described anywhere in this wikibook. It simply is not feasible to go into great detail on the mechanics of searching each of the sources described herein and even if this was done, it would quickly go out of date due to the frequency of changes and new features added to these search systems and databases.