(Due by 11:59 PM on October 29, 2021)
Resources for datasets |
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Data registry, which allows finding a repository to deposit and/or find data. Assigns DOIs for datasets. Incorporates Databib (a catalog, registry, directory, and bibliography of research data repositories). |
Single search interface for over 350 data repositories worldwide. |
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U.S. Government’s site for open data. Includes tools and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, and design data visualizations. |
Leading international center for data management located in the United Kingdom. |
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Data Observation Network. Provides access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting discovery of Earth and environmental data. |
Curated resource that provides a home for a wide diversity of datatypes and makes scientific data discoverable, reusable, and citable. |
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Repository for many different kinds of files (e.g. figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, and presentations), which can be uploaded and visualized in a browser. |
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Enables users to perform a simple keyword search to find datasets stored in thousands of repositories across the Web. Accompanies the search engine Google Scholar. |
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Repository for long-term preservation of research data. Provides permanent identifiers for datasets. Open to all researchers worldwide to publish research data across all disciplines. |
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Allows storing, sharing, publishing, and finding research data, Includes millions of datasets from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories. |
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A data publishing and discovery platform of the National Data & Surveying Services (NDS) Consortium hosted at the University of Illinois. |
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National Institute of Health-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse. |
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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe. Large-scale shared archive network of aggregated digital repositories for datasets and other kinds of scientific outputs from many disciplines. |
A global directory of Open Access repositories and their policies. |
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Research Data Alliance. International organization. Connects researchers. Enables open sharing of data across technologies, disciplines, and countries. |
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re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
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SHared Access Research Ecosystem. OA research network of cross-institutional digital repositories; associates papers with datasets. |
ISBN: 9780081001950; Print: Q180.55.M3 B39 2015 (UMCP Chemistry Library)
Selected chapters from the book:
2 - Scientific communication in the digital age
3 - Ethics in scientific publishing
4 - An editor’s view: interview with John Fourkas
5 - Finding and managing scientific information
6 - Science information literacy and the role of academic librarians
7 - Information literacy and social media: interview with Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
8 - Coping with “Big Data”: eScience
9 - Managing research data: electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs)
10 - The complexity of chemical information: interview with Gary Wiggins
11 - Measuring academic impact
Using SciFinder
Using PubMed
Using Reaxys
Using EndNote Online
Using Zotero
General instructions for using Zotero
Using Zotero in FireFox: an overview
Major STEM Publishers |
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Nonprofit membership organization. Publishes almost 60 journals, as well as conference proceeding, and scientific databases (SciFinder and STN). It also organizes conferences. |
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Nonprofit membership organization. Publishes research journals, conference proceedings, magazines, books, and newsletters covering physics and related disciplines. It also organizes conferences. |
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Nonprofit membership organization. Publishes research journals, newsletters, and magazines covering physics and related disciplines. It also organizes conferences. |
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Division of the ACS. Publishes scientific databases: SciFinder and STN, which carry the Chemical Abstracts database (CAPlus), MEDLINE, and the Registry File. Other databases: PatentPak, CHEMCATS, Science IP, ChemZent, MethodsNow, and NCI Global https://www.cas.org/products |
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Professional organization and publisher. Publishes journals and books. It also organizes conferences. |
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Commercial publisher of scientific databases (Web of Science, InCites, Derwent Patent database, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators), and research tools (EndNote, Publons, Kopernio). |
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Interdisciplinary commercial publisher of journals, books, and series. Publishes databases (ScienceDirect, Scopus) and a bibliographic management and data-sharing tool (Mendeley). Reed Elsevier Properties SA. Reaxys |
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The National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of medicine (USA) publishes many freely available databases and other resources for finding literature and properties of chemical compounds. PubMed is the most widely used database for biomedical literature. |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes journals and databases related to chemistry. |
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Nonprofit membership organization in the UK. Publishes journals, books, and databases (ChemSpider) |
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Interdisciplinary commercial publisher of journals, books, series, conference proceedings, databases, software, reference works, and protocols in print and online. SpringerLink is a comprehensive online delivery platform, providing easy access to millions of STM resources, which publishes also many open-access journals. |
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Interdisciplinary commercial publisher of journals, books, and databases. |
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Commercial medical and STEM publisher of books, journals, online products, and series. |
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Interdisciplinary commercial publisher of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, books, series, encyclopedias, educational and training materials in print and online. Publishes many open-access journals. |
Scholarly communication formats |
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Scientific communication formats |
Alternative communication |
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Strategies for finding literature and refining the search results |
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Type of search |
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Topic |
Keyword, Phrase, Index term, Natural Language1 |
Natural language search: aspirin for prevention of cancer |
Author/Editor |
Author Name, Author identifier: ORCID ResearcherID |
Last Name,2 First name, Initial 0000-0001-7066-058X rid/H-1969-2011 |
Document Type or Classification |
Books, Book chapter, Clinical trial, Conference, Dataset, Dissertation, Journal article, Patent, Preprint |
Journal articles: Research article, Review, Editorial, Letter |
Document Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI), PubMedID, Accession Number, Title, Author, Publication Year |
DOI:10.1021/jacs.8b12671 Accession Number: 2019:204380 |
Publication Name |
Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Title Words, Author Name, Publication Year |
Journal of the American Chemical Society, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., JACS |
Organization |
Company, University, Organization, Institution |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1Search engines and indexing databases use stop words such as “and,” ‘of,” ‘with.” 2Some indexing databases (SciFinder) search for alternate spellings of author’s last name. |
Types of databases |
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Academic search engines |
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), DuckDuckGo, Google Books, Google Datasets Search, Google Scholar, Google Patents, Mendeley, Microsoft Academic, re3data.org, Science.gov, Bing.com, regional search engines: Baidu, Baidu Academic,, so.com, x.mol.com |
Indexed databases |
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Bibliographic |
PubMed/MEDLINE, SciFinder and STN, Scopus, Web of Science, Academic Search Premier |
Cited/Citing |
Google Scholar Citation, Scopus, Web of Science |
Full-text databases |
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO), American Chemical Society journals, American Physical Society journals, PubMed Central, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journals and eBooks, ScienceDirect, Springer Link |
Properties of chemical compounds |
ChemSpider, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, NIST databases, Reaxys, PubChem, SciFinder and STN, The Merck Index |
Indexed elements |
articles, conference proceedings, graphs, tables, images, DOIs, authors names, ORCID, Researcher ID |
Level of indexing |
Title, abstract, full text, references, figures, tables, images |