Short Courses

Sessions aimed at updating research groups (advanced undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, etc.) on information sources relevant to their group.

Example: Short course for graduate students,
University of Pennsylvania.
now 8 weeks; started as a 2 week short course

Objectives: This course aims to provide students with basic chemical information skills. Students will:

• learn to distinguish the various types of chemical information sources and to choose the appropriate sources to solve specific chemical information problems
• become acquainted with the major print and electronic sources of chemical information, such as Chemical Abstracts, Beilstein, Gmelin, dictionaries, handbooks, and comprehensive treatises.
• become aware of the variety of electronic resources and information retrieval techniques
• learn the basics of searching Chemical Abstracts on STN
• learn to use Science Citation Index
• explore the Internet for chemistry-related sources

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