American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— August 1998 —
Attachments: Tips for Teaching: Database Producers and Vendors
Database Producers
Database Producers (Chemical Abstracts Service, Beilstein etc.) may offer:
- printed guides and workshops on how to search their databases
- printed and online instructional materials
- booths at ACS and other conferences where staff answer questions
- a Help Desk for phone questions, or a Web Site
Major database producers are:
- Chemical Abstracts Service
Chemical Abstracts - Institute of Scientific Information
Science Citation Index
Current Contents - Beilstein
Beilstein Handbuch
Beilstein CrossFire - Chapman & Hall
Dictionaries of (xxxx) - CRC Press
Properties of Organic Compounds
Database Vendors
Database Vendors (Dialog, STN International, OCLC) offer:
- printed guides and workshops on how to use:
- their search system
- databases on their system
- some vendors provide:
- small inexpensive versions of the databases useful for training purposes
- printed and online materials for instructors
- booths at ACS and other conferences where staff answer questions
- a Help Desk, for phone questions
Major vendors used by academic communities are:
- Dialog Corporation
2440 El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA 94040
Customer Service Phone: 1-800-3-DIALOG
List of available databases - STN International
Chemical Abstracts Service
2540 Olentangy River Road
P.O. Box 3012
Columbus, OH 43210-0012
Customer Service Phone: 800-753-4227
Help Desk Phone: 800-848-6533
Internet: help@cas.org (for Help Desk Questions)
List of available databases - OCLC
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017-3395
614-764-6000
oclc@oclc.org
List of available databases