Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques

— August 1998 —

Core Resources: Primary Literature: Journals

Where current science is reported
Example: Show NY Times Science Section article (or your local paper's science section), and show journal article it came from
Where the information in textbooks come from.
Example: Principle from your textbook and the journal article(s) which first reported it (e.g. Lewis Acid)
Where you can get more information on a topic
Example: do an online search on a popular topic in whatever database you have available and show titles

Chemical Abstracts
Other subject indexes
- e.g. Science Citation Index, General Science Index
Other general sources
- e.g. UnCover (indexes tables of contents of approx. 10,000 science journals)

Lecture on primary literature
Exercise on journals
Stankus, Tony, Making Sense of Journals in the Physical Sciences, Hayworth Press: New York, 1992
Stankus, Tony, Making Sense of Journals in the Life Sciences, Hayworth Press: New York, 1992