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CHEM 184/284 (Chemical Literature) - Huber - Winter 2024: Chem 184/284: Chemical Information Reference Sources in the UCSB Library

A two-credit course in the techniques and tools for effective searching the literature of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and related fields.

Chem184284: Chemical Information Reference Sources in the UCSB Library

Allen, Frank H. and Hoy, Vanessa J.
"Cambridge Structural Database" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 1, pp. 155-157, © 1998
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 1
Good article on the most important database of organic, organometallic and coordination compound crystal structures.

Barcelon-Yang, Cynthia S., et al.
"Information Retrieval" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, Volume 14, pp. 220-276 (© 1995)
TP 9 .E685 1991, Vol. 14
Good, but dated chapter on electronic resources in chemistry.

Barth, Andreas
"Online Databases in Chemistry" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 3, pp. 1968-1981, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 3
Good, if dated, overview article.

Bergerhoff, Günter
"Inorganic Three-Dimensional Structure Databases" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 1, pp. 155-157, © 1998
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 2
Good article on crystal structure databases of inorganic compounds and metals.

Bigalow, H. James
"Market and Marketing Research" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (online version ©2005, (Earlier version by Edward Tarnell is available in print in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, Volume 15, pp. 1056-1071 (© 1996)
TP 9 .E685 1991, Vol. 18
This topic is primarily of interest to chemical engineers and industrial chemists, but may be of interest to anyone who may be considering starting up a chemical or biochemical business.

Dröge, Thomas and Sass, Richard.
"Chemical Engineering Databases" in Encyclopedia of Computational ChemistryNew York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 1, pp. 316-323, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 1 
Good, somewhat dated, article on electronic sources for chemical engineering.

Fisanick, William, et al.
"Chemical Abstracts Service Information System" in Encyclopedia of Computational ChemistryNew York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 1, pp. 277-315, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 1
Excellent article by key CAS staff members on CAS databases and research activities. There have been many advances in the CAS databases since it was written, but it's still good on basics.

Hopkinson, Glen A.
"Structure and Substructure Searching" in Encyclopedia of Computational ChemistryNew York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 4, pp. 2764-2771, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 4
Technical article on the algorithms used for structure searching. A good introduction to the subject if you're really curious about the nuts and bolts of structure databases.

 Lawson, Alexander J. and Jochum, Clemens J.
"Factual Information Databases" in Encyclopedia of Computational ChemistryNew York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 2, pp. 983-1002, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 2 
Excellent article by two of the award-winning creators of the electronic Beilstein database.

Neudert, Reinhard
"Spectroscopic Databases" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry,
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 4, pp. 2632-2646, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 4
Excellent overview article, concentrating on the use of these databases for structure elucidation and prediction.

Paris, C. Gregory
"Structure Databases" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry,
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 4, pp. 2771-2785, © 1998
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 4
Good article on how databases of chemical structures are created and searched, though some aspects are dated.

  Ridley, Damon D.
Online searching: a scientist's perspective: a guide for the chemical and life sciences / Damon D. Ridley. Chichester ; New York : Wiley © 1996
Z 699.5 .S3 R53 1996
An excellent how-to manual for searching the STN International database system (especially Chemical Abstracts Online.) It doesn't have the latest bells and whistles, but the basics of the databases still hold true.

Rusch, Peter
"Nomenclature Searching" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 3, pp. 1876-1881, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 3
An excellent, brief article on the considerations in chemical nomenclature and how to search using it, by a noted expert.

Smith, Michael B. and D'Angelo, John
Hybrid Retrosynthesis: Organic Synthesis Using Reaxys and SciFinder  New York City: Elsevier, Inc. © 2015 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124114982)
This book is more focused on proactical organic synthesis thanon chemical information, but it does show how to apply Reaxys and SciFinder to synthetic problems. Aimed at a graduate student level.

Warkentin, Eberhard, Kuhn, Peter and Olbrich, Gottfried
"Inorganic Chemistry Databases" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 2, pp. 1313-1320, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 2
Good, brief article by staff of the Gmelin Institute.

Willett, Peter
"Structural Similarity Measures for Database Searching" in Encyclopedia of Computational ChemistryNew York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 4, pp. 2748-2756 © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 1

Article on how similarity structure searching works. Rather technical, but if you want to know how the "black box" works, this is a good source.

Williams, Martha E. and Grant, James L.
"Databases" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, Volume 7, pp. 905-927 (© 1993 approx)
TP 9 .E685 1991, Vol. 7
Interesting overview of scientific databases, with lots of statistics for the early 1990's.

Zass, Engelbert
"Reaction Databases" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, New York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 4, pp. 2402-2420, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 1
Excellent overview article by a world-renowned chemical information specialist.
 

 

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Villar, Hugo O.
"Cheminformatics" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons copy; 2010
A brief article on some aspects of cheminformatics (note the variant spelling!), though even it is out of date of some small points. Good bibliography.

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Baykoucheva, Svetla
Managing Scientific Information and Research Data
2015, Amsterdam: Elsevier
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780081001950
The title does not begin to indicate the wide range of chemical information topics covered by this useful book. It is more about scientific publishing, information literacy, metrics and altmetrics and the like.

Chemical information for chemists: a primer / edited byJudith Currano and Dana Roth, eds. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, © 2014
QD 8.5 .C44 2014 (URL: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-84973-551-3#!divbookcontent)
An up-to-date guide to the primary and secondary literature of chemistry, and searching techniques, written by some of the very best chemical information librarians in the world. Highly recommended. 

Chemical information mining: facilitating literature-based discovery / Debra L. Banville, editor. Boca Raton : CRC Press, © 2009
QD8.5 .C475 2009eb (URL:http://uclibs.org/PID/142080)
A fairly recent book on data mining, a method of extracting information from electronic text - very different from traditional literature searching. A good introduction to the topic, which is mostly beyond the scope of this course.

The Future of the History of Chemical Information / Leah R. McEwen and Robert E. Buntrock, eds. (ACS Symposium Series, vol. 1164) Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, © 2014 (URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/book/10.1021/bk-2014-1164)
This collection of essays by leaders in chemical information proides both historical perspective, as well as a look forward at where chemical information is headed. It is based on a symposium presented at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia in Aug., 2012

 Integrating Information Literacy into the Chemistry Curriculum; / ed. by  Charity Flener Lovitt, Kristen Shuyler,Ye Li
ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1232
2016, Washington, DC: American Chemical Society
URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/book/10.1021/bk-2016-1232
Papers based on a recent symposium at an ACS Nationsl meeting on developing chemical information literacy.

Powell, Warren H.
"Nomenclature" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
,
© 2005
A useful description of the history and state of the art of various types of chemical nomenclature, including inorganic, organic and polymer nomenclature, with lots of good references.

 

 

 

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Ackerman, Marc E. and Bogdanos, Claudia T.
"Trademarks" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, (online version, © 2003) (Note: In print, see: Deinard, Lile H., Stathis, Nicholas J., and Rasenberger, Mary E, "Copyrights and Trademarks: Trademarks", Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed.,New York: John Wiley & Sons, Volume 7, pp. 532-547 )
TP 9 .E685 1991, Vol. 7
A good, brief introduction to this aspect of intellectual property for scientists.

ACS Committee on Patents and Related Matters
What every chemist should know about patents., 4th. ed., 2019
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/patents/what-every-chemist-knows-patents.pdf
Newly updated, concise introduction to patents, aimed at chemists, written by patent expers.

Gresens, John J.
"Patents and Trade Secrets" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed.,New York: John Wiley & Sons, Volume 18, pp. 61-101 (© 1996)
TP 9 .E685 1991, Vol. 18
This excellent article focuses on the definition and management of patents and trade secrets from the patent assignee's perspective.

KKoenigsberg, I. Fred
"Copyrights" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed.,New York: John Wiley & Sons, Volume 7, pp. 521-532 (© 2003 online, 1993 print)
TP 9 .E685 1991, Vol. 7
A good, brief introduction to this aspect of intellectual property for scientists. Note that the online version has been recently updated.

Rogers, Alex and McGlue, Rachel
"Patents" in Ullman's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry ©  2017
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14356007.b01_13.pub3
VFairly recent article on the basics of patents.

Simmons, Edlyn S.
"Patents, Literature" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, © 2006 (Earlier version by Simmons and Stuart Kaback is available in print in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, Volume 18, pp. 102-156 (© 1996)
TP 9 .E685 1991, Vol. 18,
This chapter, by one of the leading patent searchers in the entire world, is an excellent description of how, where and why to search the patent literature for legal purposes and technical information, and recently updated. Highly recommended

Waller, Francis J.
"Patents or Trade Secrets: Introduction for Chemical Professionals" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Published 19 July 2013
An overview of patents and trade secrets oriented toward chemical inventors.

 

See also:

Understanding Patents

Trademarks Books and Resources

 

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Fyfe, Aileen, Coate, Kelly, Curry, Stephen, Lawson, Stuart, Moxham, Noah, and Røstvik, Camilla Mørk
Untangling Academic Publishing: a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research / ©2017
https://zenodo.org/record/546100#.XbnwfJpKhPZ
This open access book is a good historical overview of how scholarly publishing became gig business, and the forces driving it in new directions.

Gould, Maria (Office of Scholarly Commuication, University of California) 
Pathways to Open Access: Choices and Opportunities (https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2018/07/pathways-to-open-access-choices-and-opportunities/_  <
This 2018 paper describes the University of California's efforts toward achieving open access for UC generated scholarship.

Heller, Stephen, R.
"Electronic Publishing of Scientific Manuscripts" in Encyclopedia of Computational ChemistryNew York : John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 2, pp. 871-875, © 1998.
QD 39,3 .E46 E53 1998 Vol. 2 
Good article by a noted expert on, and advocate of, electronic and open access journals. Nonetheless, it's showing its age, as there has been so much progress in the past dozen years.

Li, Ye
"open Access" in ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsguide.10501)
Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, ©2020
Very new chapter on open access poblisher by a prominent chemistry librarian. The link takes you to the introduction, but you can get to the whole chapter from there. The chapter itself is open access, but the guide as a whole is not. Highly recommended!

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research
Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.2018
Q223 .O64 2018
https://www.nap.edu/read/25116/chapter/1
Very recent report from the U.S. National Academies on implementing open access publishing and open data to foster open science.

National Research Council (U.S.). Organizing Committee for the Workshop on Information and Communications
Information and communications [electronic resource] : challenges for the chemical sciences in the 21st century / Organizing Committee for the Workshop on Information and Communications, Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2003.
QD8 .N37 2003eb (URL:http://uclibs.org/PID/102907)
Another National Reearch Council report on scholarly communication in the chemical sciences.

The Open Access Interviews: Rusty Speidel, The Center for Open Science
https://poynder.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-open-access-interviews-rusty.html
The Center for Open Science is a a major resource for preprint servers in science and engineering. This August, 2017 interview with its director gives an overview of how preprint dervers spread from physics into the biosciences and other fields. Note: The blog in which this is published, Open and Shut?, is a risch source for essays and news items on many aspects of scholarly publishing.

Open Science Initiative Working Group
Mapping the Future of Scholarly Publishing / Lincoln, Nebraska : Uinversity of Nebraska - Lincoln, *copy'2015
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=scholcom
An overview of scholarly publishing from a few years ago, but still relevant today.

Opening Science: How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing
/ edited by Sönke Bartling and Sascha Friesike, London: Springer ©2015
A recent discussion of open science and publishing.

Scheufen, Marc
Copyright versus Open Access /London: Springer ©2015 (URL: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-12739-2)
A perspective by an economist on the impact of open access on scholarly publishing.

Scholarly Communication by the UCSB Library Scholarly Communication Committee
URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/scholarly-communication
A regularly updated guide to copyright and fair use, open access publishing, data curation and related issues of importance to UCSB faculty and researchers who wish to publish their results.

Scholarly publishing : books, journals, publishers, and libraries in the twentieth century edited by Richard E. Abel, Lyman W. Newlin, New York: Wiley ©2002
Z 286 .S333 2002
An interesting collection of essays on scholarly book and journal publishing and the academic library; it makes good background reading for understanding the cycle of information in the academic world.

Solomon, David J.
Developing open access journals: a practical guide Oxford, England: Chandos Publishing, © 2008
Z 286 .O63 S65 2008
Most of the book isn't really relevant for the user of scholarly journals, but the introductory section gives a good brief history of the scholarly journal and the rationales for open access publication.

Special Issues in Data Management / edited by Xiao, Norah and McEwen, Leah Rae (ACS Symposium Series Vol 1110) 2012 Washington DC: American Chemical Society (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/book/10.1021/bk-2012-1110)
This is a collection of papers basedon an ACS symposium presented at the ACS National Meeting in Anaheim, March, 2011. While this course does not deal directly with data management, it is an important consideration for chemical researchers and authors.

Suber, Peter
Open Access Cambridge, MA: MIT Press © 2012
Z 286 .O63 S83 2012 (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access)
A key book on open access issues by one of the world's leading authorities on the topic. Highly recommended. The book itself became open access in a variety of formats in June, 2013.

UC Pay It Forward Project (https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/icis/uc-pay-it-forward-project/)
This article describes a project led by the UC Daviso Librarystarting in 2015, to develop a sustainable open access model for the University. The final report on the project is linked from the article.

 

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ACS Author University (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?reload=9&list=PLLG7h7fPoH8L3ru8IHYliYou2FENEzmtMM\ 
A series of videos on YouTube, produced by American Chemical Society Publications, on various aspects of writing and publishing articles in the sciences.

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/book/10.1021/acsguide)
This is the brand-new successor tot he ACS Style Guide, greatly updated and expanded. It is available only online, by institutional subscription (at present. Two sections, the chapter on open access, and the Quick Guide to citation styles, are available free at the site.

ACS Reviewer Lab  (https://www.acsreviewerlab.org/)<
A free online course on the nuts andbolts of peer reviewing, from ACS Publications.

 

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