Internet

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Teaching Points

• Students like the Internet and often search there first.
  Must convince them that information can often be found more efficiently using databases
• Differentiate between scientific databases and free Internet sources
• Identify likely sources of good information on the Internet:
• Government sources
  NIST Web Book (Screen Shots)
  Protein/sequence databanks
• Commercial sites
  ChemFinder (Screen Shots)
  Aldrich Catalog
• Professional Societies home pages
  ACS  Division of Chemical Education, ACS Division of Chemical Information
• Lists of web sites
  Yahoo
• Universities / University libraries

Teaching Materials

• Electronic Publishing Lecture
• Major Internet Sources
• Internet Information Resources for Chemistry
  Site maintained by Chuck Huber at UC-Santa Barbara
  Contains a list of `super sites' in chemistry
  (HTLM use back button)
• Some Internet Chemistry Sites

Compiled by Gary Wiggins at Indiana University

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