Internet
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
Compiled by Gary Wiggins at Indiana University
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