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Information sources in chemistry / editors, R.T. Bottle, J.F.B. Rowland..

Contributor(s): Bottle, R. T | Rowland, J. F. B.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Butterworths guides to information sources: Publisher: London ; New York : Bowker-Saur, c1993Edition: 4th ed.Description: xvi, 341 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 1857390164.Uniform titles: Use of chemical literature. Subject(s): Chemical literatureDDC classification: 540.72
Contents:
Section A: General sources -- Section B: Pure chemistry -- Section C: Industrial chemistry -- Section D: Conclusion.

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Revised from the 1979 The Use of Chemical Literature, evaluates primary and secondary sources of chemical information in both print and electronic formats, with special attention to the idiosyncrasies of handling chemical structure on the computer. The subjects range from inorganic chemistry to pharmaceuticals, and the literature from professional journals to government publications and grey literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rev. ed. of: Use of chemical literature. 3rd ed. 1979..

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Section A: General sources -- Section B: Pure chemistry -- Section C: Industrial chemistry -- Section D: Conclusion.

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This volume is organized into four parts: "General Sources": primary and secondary information sources and computerized services; "Pure Chemistry": physicochemical data and inorganic, organic, and nuclear chemistry; "Industrial Chemistry": patents, commercial information, workplace health and safety concerns, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and food industries; and sources of government chemical information. A final section discusses the practical use of chemical information. The previous edition (3rd, 1979) emphasized manual chemical information sources and searching; this new edition celebrates the trend toward reliance on electronic methods of all types. There is good coverage of the history of scientific periodicals, chemical abstracting services, new and old, as well as of citation indexing. The very important chapter on health and safety has a decidedly UK flavor, resulting in the benign neglect of many worthy US sources; some of those mentioned have been out for some years in newer editions. A very valuable stand-alone database containing toxicological and workplace safety information, Chemtox, available for about six years, is nowhere mentioned; this is a serious omission. Many sources are listed in run-on fashion, making the pages visually dense. Despite these shortcomings, any library collecting in chemical information is obliged to include this latest offering. Somewhat the same approach as Robert E. Maizell's How to Find Chemical Information (2nd ed., CH, Nov'87), that is slanted toward the US industrial reader. Works by Gary Wiggin (CH, Feb'92), and Yecheskel Wolman (2nd ed., CH, May'89), are more instructional in nature. Advanced undergraduate through professional. J. Douville; Choice