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Using ‘databases’ to find chemical informationLINDA NEYER, SCIENCE LIBRARIAN
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Databases – what are they?How differ from Google? What types?Library catalogReference booksArticle databases
Info organized in ‘fields’
How do databases differ from each other?
subjects types of publications dates
Other differences indexing content
Special database features
Truncation (aka ‘wildcards’)e.g., chemi* truncated will find:
chemicalchemicalschemistrychemists
etc.
More special features
Boolean operators, e.g.
Field specific searching
Questions?
