Database Producers and Vendors

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• Database VENDORS (Dialog, STN International, OCLC) offer:

Printed guides and workshops on how to use:

• their search system
• databases on their system

Some vendors provide:

• small inexpensive versions of the databases useful for training purposes
• printed and online materials for instructors.
• booths at ACS and other conferences where staff answer questions.
• a Help Desk, for phone questions.

• Major vendors used by academic communities are:
• Dialog Corporation

2440 El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA 94040
Customer Service Phone: 800
List of available databases

• STN International

Chemical Abstracts Service
2540 Olentangy River Road
P.O. Box 3012
Columbus, OH 43210-0012
Customer Service Phone: 800/753-4227
Help Desk Phone: 800/848-6533
Internet: help@cas.org (for Help Desk Questions)
List of available databases

• OCLC

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017-3395
614-764-6000
oclc@oclc.org
List of available databases

• Database PRODUCERS (Chemical Abstracts Service, Beilstein etc.) may offer:
• printed guides and workshops on how to search their databases.
• printed and online instructional materials
• booths at ACS and other conferences where staff answer questions.
• a Help Desk for phone questions, or a Web Site.

Major database producers are:

• Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts

• Institute of Scientific Information

Science Citation Index
Current Contents

• Beilstein

Beilstein Handbuch
Beilstein CrossFire

• Chapman & Hall

Dictionaries of (xxxx)

• CRC Press

Properties of Organic Compounds

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