Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques

— August 1998 —

Attachments: Tips for Teaching: Cheap Tricks

Free/Low Cost Chemical Information Sources

• Databases Overview
  • Vendor websites
    • STN International
      Database categories for STN Easy
      Can give a good overview of types of chemically related databases which are available
    • DIALOG Corp.
      DIALOG WEB - lists databases by categories
      Can search across databases indexes FREE! (you will see the number of hits in a particular database but cannot see the records themselves) Note: categories do NOT include Chemical Abstracts!
• Online searching
  • PubMed
    Free searching of Medline
  • Practice files on STN, DIALOG
    Low cost files
    Contain a sample of the full database
  • ingenta
    Searching of 9,000 science journals
• Journal access
  • ingenta
    Browsing of table of contents of 9,000 science journals
  • Browse free electronic journals
    Trial offers present an opportunity
    Look for sample issues at a journal site
    Aldrichimica Acta is free in print and online
• Chemical Substance Information

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