Sources for Practice Questions

Cooke, R.C. Online Searching Curriculum for Chemistry - Dialog's Classroom Instruction Program for Chemical Education.

Dialog Information Service, 1993.

Available from Dialog's Classroom Instruction Office, Alexandria, VA 703/908-2388 and on the Web: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/60-76.html

CAS Learning Center: STN Resources.

http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/STN/doc.html

Using CAS Databases on STN. CAS Academic Instruction Program. Chemical Abstracts Service, 1994.

Print and on WWW

Using the CAS Registry File on STN. CAS Academic Instruction Program. CAS, 1996.

Print and on WWW

Searching STN: The Basics Chemical Abstracts Service, 1990.

(Out-of-Print) but a version is available on the Web

ACS/SLA Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instruction Materials. Indiana University, Chemistry Library.

Available from Gary Wiggins at Chemistry Library or at http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/cciimnro.html on the WWW

Chemical Information Sources and Services. From Gary Wiggins, Indiana University, Chemistry Library.

http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/C471/471home.html on the WWW

Wiggins, Chemical Information Sources. McGraw-Hill, NY, 1991.

Wolman, Chemical Information: A Practical Guide to Utilization. 2nd ed. Wiley, NY 1988.

Mellon, Chemical Publications: Their Nature and Use. 5th ed. McGraw- Hill, NY 1982.

Ridley, Damon D. Information Retrieval: SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar

New York: Wiley, 2002.

The Chemical Information Instructor, quarterly column in J.Chem.Ed., July 1991+

MIMAS CrossFire Service

Huge amount of training materials, introductory and advanced tutorials, user guides, and other information for CrossFire. On the WWW at http://www.mimas.ac.uk/crossfire/docs.html

MIMAS ISI Web of Science Service

ISI Web of Science Documentation. Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents

Available on the WWW at http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/documentation.html