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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807103803321

Titolo

Chemical information for chemists : a primer / / edited by Judith N. Currano and Dana L. Roth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, England : , : The Royal Society of Chemistry, , 2014

©2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

540.7

Soggetti

Chemical literature

Chemistry - Information services

Communication in chemistry - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to the chemical literature / Leah McEwen -- Non-patent primary literature : journals, conference papers, reports, abstracts and preprints / Dana L. Roth -- Chemical patents / Michael J. White -- Searching using text : beyond web search engines / Andrea Twiss-Brooks -- Searching by structure and substructure / Judith N. Currano -- Physical properties and spectra / A. Ben Wagner -- Commercial availability, safety, and hazards / Dana L. Roth -- Searching for polymers / Donna T. Wrublewski -- Reaction searching / Judith N. Currano -- A practical primer to BLAST sequence similarity searching / Diane C. Rein.

Sommario/riassunto

While it is not difficult to find data in many cases, what advice can you get on the quality of the data retrieved? Chemical Information for Chemists could help with this problem and more. This book is a chemical information book aimed specifically at practicing chemists. Written and edited by experts in the field, it is ideal for chemists who lack a chemical information professional able to teach basic and intermediate techniques in retrieving and evaluating information using the unique entry points of the chemical literature, including structure, formula, substructure, and sequence. Aimed at