EFFECTIVE RESEARCH BEGINS WITH THE CHEMICAL LITERATURE... LEARN WHERETO LOOK FOR THE INFORMATION YOU NEED, AND HOW TO FIND IT QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY.
Use of the Chemical Literature An Introduction to Chemical Information Retrieval The new ACS Audio Course designed to help you make full use of this powerful research tool! One of the most comprehensive surveys of the chemical literature ever assembled, this unique presentation is ideal both as an effective educational program and as a permanent reference work. The course covers primary, secondary, and tertiary literature sources, including an extensive treatment of Chemical Abstracts, and shows how they interrelate and complement each other. The organization of the literature sources is discussed as a prelude to strategies for searching them. Students learn not only what is available in the chemical literature, but how to most efficiently seek out virtually any chemical information they might need. Among the many topics covered in this important Audio Course are techniques and sources for carrying out exhaustive, retrospective literature searches, recon naissance reading, and current awareness; useful com pendia such as the Gmelin and Beilstein handbooks and how to use them; compilations of constants and other physical data; recent developments in on-line, computerassisted literature searches; and much more.
FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP USE Excellent for use by individuals or groups, the course consists of eight audiotape cassettes (8.8 hours playing time), a 292-page manual, and a 75-page workbook of exercises . ... $225.00. Additional manuals for group use are available at any time, 1-9 copies . . . $22.50 each; 1049 copies . . . $18.00 each; 50 or more . . . $17.00 each. Additional workbooks, 1-9 copies . . . $5.00 each; 10 or more... $3.50 each.
LEARN BY DOING Each course includes a set of 60 challenging exercises in chemical information retrieval in a separate 75-page workbook. Involving the use of the different literature sources covered in the course, the exercises develop familiarity with the formats of the sources, and effective techniques for utilizing them. Professor Wilen's strategy for each search is included.
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THE INSTRUCTOR Dr. Samuel H. Wilen, Professor of Chemistry, City Uni versity of New York. Dr. Wilen's major research activities are in stereochemistry and the chemistry of nitrogen heterocycles. He is the author of Tables of Resolving Agents and Optical Resolutions.
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