Science and Engineering Resources:Chemistry

Joseph KrausPenrose LibraryAssociate ProfessorScience and Engineering Reference

LibrarianJanuary 31, 2011

The assigned readings

What did you think of: Local Evaluation of Chemistry Journals Spotlight on the Subject Knowledge of Chemis

try Librarians: Results of a Survey Access and retrieval of recent journal articles:

a comparative study of chemists and geoscientists

Readings for Next week are Information-Seeking Behavior of Meteorologist

s and Other Atmospheric Scientists Geology Librarianship: Current Trends and Ch

allenges

Note on the Assignment due next weekSome of the major encyclopedias are on the

lower level. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology They are about 25-40 volumes.

The assignment due February 14

Hand out the assignment for geoscience information.

It is on blackboard now.

A look at a some blog posts http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2010/01/

dangerous-data-lessons-from-my-cheminfo.html

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-image-search-indexes-svg-files.html

Demo SciFinder Web & other things

http://libguides.du.edu/chemistry