American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— March 1996 —
Journals: Introduction
Where information in textbooks come from.
Where we can get more information.
Kinds of journal articles:
- Research articles
- Rapid communications
- Review articles
What’s in a journal article:
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Results
- Discussion
- References
How to find journal articles:
- Chemical Abstracts
- Other subject indexes
- e.g. Biological Abstracts, Science Citation Index, General Science Index
- Other general sources
- e.g. UnCover (indexes tables of contents of approx. 20,000 journals, approximately 50% are science).
How to obtain journal articles:
- Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI)
- UnCover
- Library’s Interlibrary Loan service