Chemical InformationBCHM281 / CHEM281 - 2010

Our mission is...

Finding reliable (and recent) information sources Finding a paper by specific authors Finding review articles on particular subjects like

biochemicals Finding information for compounds – formulas,

structures, toxicity Finding out about enzymes – EC numbers Using ChemSketch / drawing chemical structures Using Google Scholar Find out how often a paper has been cited Formatting a bibliography in the ACS citation style

We already know... (p. 1)

Journals have articles relating to the journal topic A review article sums up what other articles have been

written on a subject Citing means listing what you’ve read as

research/background References (inline and at end) are used when the

author’s quoting something, or refering to facts We can draw structures by hand

We already know... (p. 2)

Some of us also know: How to reference in the APA style How to find papers through Google Scholar / Scopus How to get a list of lecturers’ papers from the

department website How to locate chemical data – from Vogel’s Textbook of

Practical Organic Chemistry

We need to know…

How to find reliable sources including papers and references

About review articles Finding chemical data, EC numbers etc Drawing molecules in ChemSketch / Chemspider Find out the number of citations – how often

something’s been cited How to reference properly - ACS citation style

Today we’ll cover…

1. How scientists share information

2. Finding chemical and/or enzyme data

3. Structure drawing

4. Finding papers

5. Citing sources in ACS style

How would you…share your results?

Give talks Write them down and send to a friend Send letters or newsletters Publish in newspapers Publish independently - get in touch with a

printing press to publish papers or books Gather articles about the same subject and

send out a journal

Journals

Magazines for scientists

Narrow subject focus

New issues regularly(quarterly/monthly/...)

Each issue has papers by a variety of authors about their research.

How would you…prevent hoaxes?

Repeat the experiment and see if you get the same results Check the author’s credentials - make sure it’s not sent by a

politician!

Employ people who know the field to edit journals Check ideas against previously published information Peer review – Send papers out to other people who know the

subject to see what they think about them and whether they’re feasible or credible

Peer review

The paper is sent to the author’s peers - scientists working in the same field.

They review the article to check for accuracy, clarity, reproducibility, etc.

The author makes corrections and improvements.

The article is published.

How would you…balance access & profit?

Put journals in a search engine – easy to find Charge libraries and universities for passwords Big companies manage databases = articles from lots

of journals all in one place

Subscription fees or pay-per-article A free preview but pay for the full article Articles could be free to view, funded by:

advertising research grants donations government (find a military application for it!) universities (maybe hosted on university servers)

Databases

By publisher vs by subject

Full-text vs citation only

Papers vs data

Precision vs usability

Pay-for vs free

No-one has it all!

http://canterbury.libguides.com/chem

So where to start?

hazard ratings

accidental release measures

handling and storage

toxicological dataproperties

EC numbers

properties

reactions

substrates

organisms

inhibitors

references

formula

links to some articles/patents

structure drawing

properties

weight

& much, much more data...

journal articles

who’s cited who

review articles

links to full-text (if we have it)

Author(s) Title of the paper Where it was published – Journal name Year published Volume Issue Page numbers

How would you…cite a paper?

Anatomy of a citation

Colak, A. T.; Colak, F.; Yesilel, O. Z.; Buyukgungor, O. Synthesis, spectroscopic, thermal, voltammetric studies and biological activity of crystalline complexes of pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid and 8-hydroxyquinoline. J. Mol. Struct. 2009, 936 (1-3), 67-74.

Summary

Subject guide website & “How to find” tab for: Chemical data Journal articles Safety data sheets

For reliable sources search in databases which collect peer-reviewed journals – eg Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar

What each database specialises in: Brenda for enzymes and EC numbers ChemWatch for hazards and material safety datasheets (MSDS) ChemSpider for structure, properties, drawing molecules Web of Science, Google Scholar for journal papers

Refining document type to “Review” to narrow down to overviews ACS style – see http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/services/ref/acs/

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