Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques

— August 1998 —

Core Resources: Secondary Literature: Internet Teaching

Students like the Internet and often search there first.
Must convince them that information can often be found more efficiently using databases
Differentiate between scientific databases and free Internet sources
Identify likely sources of good information on the Internet:
- Government sources
  - NIST Web Book
  - Protein/sequence databanks
- Commercial sites
  - ChemFinder
  - Aldrich Catalog
- Professional Societies home pages
  - ACS
    - Division of Chemical Education
    - Division of Chemical Information
- Lists of web sites
  - Yahoo
- Universities / University libraries

Electronic Publishing Lecture
Major Internet Sources
- Internet Information Resources for Chemistry
  - Site maintained by Chuck Huber at UC-Santa Barbara
  - Contains a list of “super sites” in chemistry