American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— March 1996 —
In-Class Demos
What will you demonstrate?
- Power of searching?
- Typical search for audience?
- Emphasize content or logistics (i.e., truncation symbol, how to print)?
Variety of access points to information.
- Convergence of several concepts
- Avoid nomenclature uncertainties
- Avoid reliance on indexing limitations
What if you cannot go online in class?
- Store results from earlier search and go through “screens”.
- Can do in several ways:
- do PowerPoint capture;
- take “snapshots” from Internet and store on desktop;
- use word processing stored search.
- Can do in several ways:
- See following article about Internet demos.
Use transparencies of actual search printout.
- Select a database on CD-ROM.