Chemical information for chemists : a primer / edited by Judith N. Currano and Dana L. Roth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Currano, Judith N., editor.

Roth, Dana L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical literature--Popular works.

Chemical literature.

Chemistry--Information services.

Chemistry.

Communication in chemistry--History.

Communication in chemistry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While it is not difficult to find data in many cases, what advice can you get on the quality of the data retrieved? Chemical Information for Chemists could help with this problem and more. This book is a chemical information book aimed specifically at practicing chemists. Written and edited by experts in the field, it is ideal for chemists who lack a chemical information professional able to teach basic and intermediate techniques in retrieving and evaluating information using the unique entry points of the chemical literature, including structure, formula, substructure, and sequence. Aimed at

Contents:

Introduction to the chemical literature / Leah McEwen

Non-patent primary literature : journals, conference papers, reports, abstracts and preprints / Dana L. Roth

Chemical patents / Michael J. White

Searching using text : beyond web search engines / Andrea Twiss-Brooks

Searching by structure and substructure / Judith N. Currano

Physical properties and spectra / A. Ben Wagner

Commercial availability, safety, and hazards / Dana L. Roth

Searching for polymers / Donna T. Wrublewski

Reaction searching / Judith N. Currano

A practical primer to BLAST sequence similarity searching / Diane C. Rein.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 19, 2014).

OCLC:

869096261