1. Chemistry Literature Searching
The Power-Lap edition
for CHEM381 – 2012
Day 1

2. Power Lap! Chemical data

3. Last year we learnt…

4. We still want to learn…

5. We’ll cover…
Week 1
 ChemSpider (done! )
 What the Literature is
 The Research Process
 Google Scholar
 SciFinder (part 1)
Week 2
 SciFinder (part 2)
 Web of Science
 Other data sources (Prices, MSDS)
 Citing in ACS style

6. The Literature
You

7. The Research Process
Define your topic
What information do you need?
Who would have written about it? Where?
Find information
Judge it – is it reliable? relevant?
– does it point in new directions?
– is it enough? or do you still need more?
Analyse and synthesise
Cite all sources!

8. Where to start?
http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/chem

9. Power Lap! The Literature

10. Questions

11. Homework!
 Register for SciFinder
(See the video on the subject guide)
 Find 1 article
 Pick a question suggested by the article
(You can change your question later!)

12. Slides and video
http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/chem

13. Contact me
 Chat
 Meet
 Email