Publications & Tutorials

The tutorials, guides, handouts, webcast movies, PowerPoint lectures, and e-seminars cover topics and resources that will help enable you to be more information and computer literate. For additional assistance, please contact Grace Baysinger (graceb@stanford.edu), Head of the Swain Library.

Topics

Library Research

Ethics, copyright, grants, writing tools, search strategies …

How to Teach Chemical Information (from the Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials)

Copyright

What Every Chemist Should Know About Copyright (HTML) (from ACS)
Links to learn more (compiled by the Swain Library)

Identifying Unknowns (HTML, PDF) (from the Swain Library)

Finding Derivatives (HTML, PDF) (from the Swain Library)

Patents

What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents (PDF) (from ACS)
Handout (from ACS Chemical Information Division Workshop)
Lecture on Searching Patents (PPT) (from the Swain Library)

TechPort: Online Technology Training (from Stanford University)

Online Tutorials

Web Searching

Specific Resources

ACD's I-Lab

Overview (from ACD)
Guide (from the Swain Library)
FAQs (from ACD)
I-Lab on the Macintosh (from ACD)

Biosis via Web of Knowledge

Search Guide (from the Falconer Biology Library)

Chemical Abstracts Online via SciFinder Scholar

e-Seminars (from CAS)
Support and Sample Searches (links compiled by Swain Library)
“How To” Guides (from CAS)

Combined Chemical Dictionary

Tour (from CRC)
Guide for Identifying Unknowns (PDF) (from the Swain Library)
Molecular Formula Search Tips (from the Swain Library)

Crossfire (Beilstein and Gmelin)

Overview of Crossfire (from MDL Information Systems)
Quick Guide (from University of Wisconsin)
Introductory Guides (from MIMAS, UK)
Includes general information plus guides for geologists, material scientists, medicinal chemists, and saving/printing/manipulating search results.
More Guides (from the Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials)
[Beilstein] Crossfire Abstracts: A Tutorial (PDF) (from MIMAS)
Gmelin Crossfire: A Tutorial (PDF) (from MIMAS)
Beilstein Dictionary (German to English, English to German) (from the Swain Library)

Derwent Biotechnology Resource

Guide (PDF) (from ISI)

Derwent Innovations Index

Guide (from ISI)

EndNote

Support and Services (from EndNote)
Using Bibliographic Management Software at Stanford (RefWorks and EndNote) (from Stanford University)
EndNote Resources (from the Lane Medical Library)
Movies and Guides (from UC-Berkeley Bioscience Library)

Engineering Index

Guide (PDF) (from the Engineering Library)

Knovel Science and Engineering e-Books

Tutorial (from Knovel)
Help (from Knovel)

Merck Index

Guide

NCBI Entrez

Teaching Resources and Tutorials (from NCBI)

Properties of Organic Compounds

Tour (from CRC)
Guide for Identifying Unknowns (PDF) (from the Swain Library)
Molecular Formula Search Tips (from the Swain Library)

PubMed

Guide (HTML, PDF) (from UC-Berkeley Bioscience Library)
Online Help (from PubMed)
Tutorial (from PubMed)

RefWorks

Tutorials (Movies and PDF versions) (from RefWorks)
Guide (PDF) (from RefWorks)
Lecture on Refworks (PPT) (from Stanford University) (March 2003)
Lecture Comparing RefWorks and Endnote (PPT) (from Stanford University) (Nov 2002)
Using Bibliographic Management Software at Stanford (RefWorks and EndNote) (from Stanford University)
Movies and Guides (from UC-Berkeley Bioscience Library)

Science of Synthesis

Help Index (from Thieme)

Web of Science

Tutorial (from ISI)
Cited Reference Searching (from ISI)
Creating Alerts (PDF) (from UC-Berkeley Bioscience Library)
Demonstrations of example searches

World Catalog

Tutorial (from OCLC)