Which should you ask your library to buy?

Patricia E. KirkwoodUniversity of ArkansasEngineering and Mathematics Librarian

We are a small school We have no access to a consortia We need to meet the CPT guidelines Libraries want a defined cost with campus

wide access

Undergraduate Professional Education in Chemistry – Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures, 2/27/2007 draft http://acswebcontent.acs.org/education/cpt/cpt_n

ewdraftguidelines.pdf Library Requirements

http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\cpt\library.html

Students must have print or electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, including the ability to search and access full abstracts.

Available where: SciFinder Scholar STN on the Web STN Easy CAS Student Edition

http://www.cas.org/Support/educ.html

The student conducts undergraduate research with a faculty advisor, allowing the student to draw on faculty expertise and encouraging a student-faculty mentor relationship. The research project should be envisioned as a component of a publication in a peer-reviewed journal. It should be well-defined, stand a reasonable chance of completion in the available time, apply and develop an understanding of in-depth concepts, use a variety of instrumentation, and be grounded in the chemical literature.

7.2 Chemical Literature Skills.

Students should be able to use the peer-reviewed scientific literature effectively and evaluate technical articles critically.

They should learn how to retrieve specific information from the chemical literature, including the use of Chemical Abstracts and other compilations, with online, interactive database-searching tools.

Approved programs must provide instruction on the effective retrieval and use of the chemical literature.

A specific course is an excellent means of imparting information-retrieval skills, though such a course usually would not qualify as an in-depth course. Integrating the use of these skills into several individual courses is also an effective approach. Both library and online exercises should be a part of such instruction.

We have less that 5K a year for 35 FTE students to learn chemical searching

And our faculty need access to Chemical Abstracts as well.

We have an excellent librarian, however, chemistry is not one of his subject strengths.

Who is going to teach the students about information retrieval?

SciFinder Scholar CA Student Edition General Science Abstracts

All use controlled vocabulary.All available for under $5KAll index selective science journals with titles used

by undergraduates in their assignments included.

Librarians and scientists look at databases differently.

You need a product that students can become comfortable with rather quickly that doesn’t hide the realities of this process.

1 seat shared between 3 schools Access to full features of Scholar including

structure searching Includes –

Chemical Abstracts (including Registry) ChemCats CASReacts Medline

http://cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html

Over 9,500 currently published journals and patent information from more than 50 active patent issuing authorities

Dissertations Conferences 1890 –

Client server software Not available off campus Requires special set up for training account

access Is not a search engine non-science librarians

are comfortable Restricted to 1 user at a time.

Available through OCLC First Search – an interface that is familiar to many librarians

316 Journals (all ACS journals, all but 1CPT recommended journals) indexed

No conferences included Dissertations included No patents included 1967 to current Uses RN and all controlled vocabulary of full CA Does not have the registry file component

http://cas.org/New1/student.html

HW Wilson Product Available on many platforms with and without

full text added 300 journals in all science areas with a large

focus in chemistry and biology Controlled vocabulary

SciFinder Scholar indexes all CPT required and recommended journals, but not every article of every journal.

CA Student Edition is a subset of SciFinder General Science Abstracts has journal that

are most likely available at small institutions or through Interlibrary Loan

I. GENERAL CONTENT Accounts of Chemical Research Angewandte Chemie International Edition Chemical Communications Chemical Reviews Chemical Society Reviews Journal of Chemical Education Journal of the American Chemical Society Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Science

Analytical Chemistry Biochemistry Chemistry of Materials Dalton Transactions Environmental Science & Technology Faraday Discussions Inorganic Chemistry Journal of Biological Chemistry Journal of Chemical Physics The Journal of Organic Chemistry The Journal of Physical Chemistry A The Journal of Physical Chemistry B Langmuir Macromolecules Nature - Structural Biology Organic Letters Organometallics Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Applied SpectroscopyBiochemical JournalBioconjugate ChemistryBioorganic ChemistryCanadian Journal of ChemistryChemical Physics LettersChemistry - A European JournalChemistry and BiologyChemistry Letters (Japan)European Journal of BiochemistryEuropean Journal of Inorganic ChemistryEuropean Journal of Organic ChemistryHelvetica Chimica ActaIndustrial & Engineering Chemistry

ResearchInorganica Chimica ActaJournal of Biological Inorganic ChemistryJournal of Catalysis

 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Journal of Chromatography

Journal of Coordination Chemistry

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Journal of Molecular Biology

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Journal of Polymer Science

Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry

New Journal of Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Spectrochimica Acta

Tetrahedron

Tetrahedron Letters

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

55 Titles in common 7 of 10 general content titles 7 of 18 highly recommended

titles 1 of 34 also recommended titles

SciFinder Scholar All recommended titles and

many many more

Chemical Abstracts Student Edition all remaining general titles 10 of 11 remaining highly

recommended titles 26 of 33 remaining also

recommended titles

General Science Abstracts  1 of the remaining highly

recommended titles

Reviews of Modern Physics

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science

Annual Review of Genetics

Annual Review of Microbiology

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Annual Review of Physiology

Annual Review of Plant Biology

American Journal of Botany

American Journal of Human Genetics

American Journal of Physiology

American Journal of Science

American Zoologist Applied and Environmental

Microbiology

The Biological Bulletin Canadian Journal of

Chemistry Cell Chemical Innovation Developmental Biology Environmental Health

Perspectives Genetics Geological Society of

America Bulletin

Nature The New England Journal of

Medicine New Scientist Perspectives in Biology and

Medicine Physics Today Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Science Scientific American

Integrative and Comparative Biology

JAMA Journal of Bacteriology The Journal of Cell Biology The Journal of Experimental

Biology The Journal of General

Physiology The Journal of Geology The Journal of Nutrition

Bioconjugate Chemistry ACS Chemical Biology ACS Nano  NEW IN 2007 Chemical Research in Toxicology Chemistry of Materials Crystal Growth & Design Energy & Fuels Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Journal of Agricultural and Food Ch

emistry

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

Organometallics

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Journal of Proteome Research Langmuir Macromolecules Molecular Pharmaceutics Nano Letters Organic Letters Organic Process Research &

Development

Predictable pricing Access – time restrictions, access limits, Timely access Student training Software and computing requirements

The known tool for locating chemical information

Interdisciplinary Robust Required by CPT

Small schools need this certification Also need access for faculty research and

student research projects

Control vocabulary Breadth of chemical literature Interdisciplinary nature of chemistry Boolean Logic The two step process

Identify the article Determine how to get the article

Structure searching Registry File Citation trails Reaction searching

When do your students need to learn these skills?

STN Easy STN on the Web

These versions are “pay as you go” and could be used to enhance access for research access as well as structure searching