Recommended reading: Baykoucheva, S., Houck, J. D., & White, N. (2015). Integration of EndNote Online in Information Literacy Instruction Designed for Small and Large Chemistry Courses. Journal of Chemical Education
Assignment (to be submitted by 11:59 PM on February 18, 2020)
Instructions for the assignment in CHEM 232/2020 Spring
Note: You can access the databases from links included in the assignment or provided on this course page under the tabs "Finding Literature" and "Finding Properties of Chemical Compounds." These links will take you to the location of the databases on the UMD Libraries site. You need to click, again, on the database link to access it.
Instructional videos related to the Assignment:
Scientific Fraud: Why researchers Do It?
Ethics in scientific publishing
Greer, S. (2017). Elements of ethics for physical scientists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. (UMCP McKeldin LibraryQ175.35 .G75 2017)
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Resources for finding properties of chemical compounds |
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Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Cost: Free |
Chemical properties database. It provides text and structure searching to find compounds. ChemSpider SyntheticPages (CS|SP) extends this model to cover reactions. |
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Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group. This is the Internet Edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, which corresponds to the latest edition of the printed book. Cost: License |
Information about the chemical, physical and thermodynamic properties of chemical compounds. |
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Publisher: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine. Cost: Free
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Covers the chemical properties and biological activities of small molecules. Includes three linked databases: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay, which provide substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data. Links from PubChem's chemical structure records to other databases such as PubMed. |
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Publisher: Reed Elsevier Properties SA. A web-based platform based on three chemical information databases: (Former) CrossFire Beilstein (organic chemical compounds), (Former) CrossFire Gmelin (inorganic) (and the Patent Chemistry Database (PCD). Cost: license |
An extensive repository of experimentally validated data, including structures, reactions and physical properties; contains pharmacological, eco-toxicological and toxicological data, specific bioassay results, and toxicity values; allows searching for substances by chemical name or by structure and reactions. |
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Publisher: Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). Cost: License |
The CAS REGISTRY File allows finding millions of reactions, more than 1 billion predicted property values, more than 2 million experimental properties. Patent records from the major patent offices are available online within 2 days of the patents' issuance; combines sequences from CAS and GenBank databases. |
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Publisher: Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Cost: License |
An online reference work for information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. |
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Bibliographic Management Programs |
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Content and Features |
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What is it? EndNote Online and Desktop bibliographic management program Cost: EndNote Online is free with institutional license, with limited storage. The software version (EndNote Desktop) is for a fee, with no limitation for storage. (on a computer) Features: Offers the highest number of citation styles. Excellent live technical support. |
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What is it? A service for managing and discovering scholarly references Cost: Free Features: Easily store references you find online. Discover new articles and resources. Automated article recommendations. Share references with your peers. Find out who is reading what you are reading. Store and search your PDFs. |
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What is it? Web-based and desktop bibliographic management and social media tool. Cost: Free with limited web storage. Upgradeable for a fee. Features: Simple interface; manages well PDFs. Retrieves metadata for retrieved PDFs. Performs also as a social media and collaborative tool |
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What is it? An online collaborative LaTeX writing and publishing tool Cost: free for individual use. For fee for collaborative or professional use. Features: Compile your project so you can see the results right away. No need to install software. Real-time commenting and integrated chat allows you to discuss your work without having to switch to email, printed versions or any other tool. Use in rich text format with Word. |
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What is it? Bibliographic management and collaborative tool Cost: Unlimited cloud storage for your personal library. Included in ReadCube. Features: Web importing via browser. Built-in search engines. Includes advanced article metrics (e.g., citations). Highlighting and drawing tools. Text to speech tool. Includes ReadCube papers app. |
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What is it? A suite of web, desktop, and mobile reference management programs for finding, organizing, reading, sharing, and citing research literature. Includes ReadCube Papers app Cost: Different pricing options |
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What is it? Browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Cost: Free open source program. Free for limited web storage. Upgradable for a fee. Features: Good documentation and user guides. Manages a variety of formats. Good functionality. Easy to download, use and export citations. |
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Resources for datasets |
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Content and features |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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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Topic |
Keyword, Phrase, Index term, Natural Language1 |
Natural language search: aspirin for prevention of cancer |
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Author/Editor |
Author Name, Author identifier: ORCID ResearcherID |
Last Name,2 First name, Initial 0000-0001-7066-058X rid/H-1969-2011 |
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Document Type or Classification |
Books, Book chapter, Clinical trial, Conference, Dataset, Dissertation, Journal article, Patent, Preprint |
Journal articles: Research article, Review, Editorial, Letter |
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Document Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI), PubMedID, Accession Number, Title, Author, Publication Year |
DOI:10.1021/jacs.8b12671 Accession Number: 2019:204380 |
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Publication Name |
Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Title Words, Author Name, Publication Year |
Journal of the American Chemical Society, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., JACS |
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Organization |
Company, University, Organization, Institution |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
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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. |
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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 |
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Bibliographic |
PubMed/MEDLINE, SciFinder and STN, Scopus, Web of Science, Academic Search Premier |
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Cited/Citing |
Google Scholar Citation, Scopus, Web of Science |
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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 |
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Properties of chemical compounds |
ChemSpider, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, NIST databases, Reaxys, PubChem, SciFinder and STN, The Merck Index |
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Indexed elements |
articles, conference proceedings, graphs, tables, images, DOIs, authors names, ORCID, Researcher ID |
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Level of indexing |
Title, abstract, full text, references, figures, tables, images |
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TABLE 4. Bibliometric and full-text indexed literature databases |
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BioOne |
Publisher: BioOne Cost: Time span: |
Abstracts and Indexes, which provide access to peer-reviewed research Coverage: biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. |
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EBSCO Information Services |
Publisher: EBSCO Multidisciplinary database Cost: Paid license Time Span: 1965-present. |
Includes titles compiled by the company as well as journals from other databases/publishers such as Medline and EconLit. The company also maintains Academic Search Complete, which covers the full-text of journals. Coverage: nearly every area of academic study. Includes a large collection of peer-reviewed full text articles. |
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Publisher: Google Cost: Free |
An interdisciplinary search engine for finding scientific literature. Authors can create a personal profile, which will appear in the list of the search results when people search for this author’s name, if the profile is made public.Includes several citation metrics and shows graphically citation analysis data. |
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Publisher: National Library of Medicine (NLM). Cost: Free Time span: mid-1960s – present. |
Comprehensive resource for biomedical literature. Based on the MEDLINE database. Covers extensively the chemical literature. The database underlying PubMed is MEDLINE, which uses a thesaurus (MeSH Index) to index documents. |
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Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Cost: Free |
Database of citations and abstracts of publications in the Life Sciences; a post-print repository for publications of work funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. |
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Publisher: Elsevier Cost: Paid license |
Peer-reviewed, full text database containing electronic books, book chapters and journal titles in science, technology, and medicine. Extensive coverage of the physical and biological sciences. |
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Publisher: Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), 26 a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Requires registration to use it. Cost: Paid license |
The most important resource for chemists. A platform that carries two very large databases for finding literature (CAPlus and MEDLINE) that can be searched simultaneously, as well as the largest database for properties of chemical, the Registry File. For finding biomedical/life sciences literature, but provides also good coverage of chemistry journals. Searches can be performed through three main search pathways: topic, structures, and reactions. Covers many document types such as journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and patents. |
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Publisher: Elsevier The world’s largest interdisciplinary indexed database, which provides sophisticated tools for refining and analyzing the search results. Cost: Paid subscription |
Multi scientific abstract and citation database: journals, conference papers, trade publications, book series, patents. Indexes journals from the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. It also provides research analysis and tracking tools. Displays “Mendeley readership statistics” for any article that was downloaded to the bibliographic management program Mendeley. |
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Publisher: Springer Nature
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Online journals in Biomedical and Life Sciences, Chemistry and Materials Science. |
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Publisher: Clarivate Analytics Cost: Paid license |
Based on the Science Citation Index Expanded. A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences, including agriculture, astronomy, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, materials science, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, physics, plant sciences, and zoology. It is the best database for finding which papers have cited other papers. Cited references can be traced forward in time. The Web of Science Core Collection includes the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Book Citation Index, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Web of Science is also a platform that includes other databases such as Essential Science Indicators, and Journal Citation Reports. |
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