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Using ‘databases’ to find chemical information LINDA NEYER, SCIENCE LIBRARIAN BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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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

More special features

Boolean operators, e.g.

Field specific searching

Questions?