chemistry literature searching: the cage-match edition (part 1)
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Part 1 of a 2-part tutorial for CHEM381, covering: Google and ChemSpider; the literature and the reseach process; Google Scholar and SciFinderTRANSCRIPT
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Chemistry Literature Searching
The Cage-Match edition
for CHEM381 – 2011Week 1
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Cage match! Chemical data
Fast Found:
Wikipedia – has general stuff – production, properties – links to references at the bottom
PDFs from chemistry sites (universities)
Risk assessment sheet and data from a chemistry department
List of suppliers from buyersguidechem.com, some have pricing
Slow to load Found:
Typed in name and brings up a page with picture, molecular weights, properties etc
Wikipedia article too Links to articles (some chemical,
some pharmacological) Commercial suppliers - Lots of
different suppliers with prices - Just a dropdown tab
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Cage match! Chemical data
Search for ‘glycine’ found lots of medical supplements – not for use in lab! Have to filter through to get lab stuff.
Ended up on an ebay-type page – not sure how reliable it is.
Searching “amino acetic acid” more useful
Straightforward searching
Long list of suppliers with links to lots of them – gives you source numbers, “poly-glycine” so you still have to do some filtering
Information more concentrated
Chemical structure drawing
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Last year we learnt…
How journals are run How to use Web of Science Databases
ChemSpider ChemSketch ChemGold Web of Science
ACS style bibliography and referencing
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We still want to learn…
Where to find information Research – how to search on a specific topic Discussion with peers Finding articles by the same author Identify keywords
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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
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The Literature
You
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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!
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Cage match! The Literature
Just typed in phrase and got some articles
A few different articles about phytoremediation but couldn’t find all the keywords in one title – tried a broader search and found some related to plants
A link on certain papers saying “Full text at UC library” (on campus) – Library has access to certain databases
Also PDFs from other sites (eg institutional repository)
Unpleasant to search! Longwinded. Filters results before you get to the
list – comes up with how many references per word - so you can get results that are more relevant to what you want
Taken through three windows to get full text – popup windows, and no access to the ones tried.
So much comes up - not sure what to do next
“Full text” link but only 1/3 actually had full text
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Cage match! The Literature
Finding author: Just list of first three authors under
title of each paper Advanced search to narrow by
author Can search by author but can’t see
a way to sort by author
Finding substances: Can only find substances by reading
the text...
Analyse function on right Get a list on the righthand side with
authors and number of titles
“Substance” link below each article lists structure, more references, supplier information, etc
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Questions
Would like to explore things more next week
ScienceDirect only includes Elsevier-published material – but is it more than one/few journals?Yes, thousands of journals plus handbooks etc.
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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!
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