Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques

— June 1997 —

Journals

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

Grace Baysinger, Head Librarian and Bibliographer
Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library, Stanford University Libraries
graceb@stanford.edu