The
Ideal Chemical Information Curriculum
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates
Students at these levels should learn to review the literature
before starting any project and should develop good information habits, such as
monitoring the current literature. Students should take advantage of sources on
the Internet: preprints, sequence databases, listservs, etc.
In addition to the basic skills , these students should learn to:
- complete a comprehensive
subject search using a variety of sources
e.g. physical chemists should be able to use INSPEC as well as CA.
- complete a comprehensive
search for information about a compound.
- conduct reaction searches.
- conduct structure searches.
- monitor current literature to
stay up-to-date on a topic.
- evaluate sources to select
those most suitable to answer a specific question.
Continue to Evaluating Sources
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