• Chemical Abstracts Informational Session

Chemical Abstracts Informational Session
Class: Chemistry 363 - Organic Chemistry
Time: 10:00-10:52 a.m.
Date: 4-4-2001
Professor: Professor Sundin
Librarian: Bryan Schwark, Division Librarian for College of Engineering,
Mathematics and Science
Location: Karrmann Library, Room B-6
A. Welcome to this presentation - Purpose is to provide a brief overview of
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, a major world indexing and abstracting service.
While there are other indexes and services available that can be used to
locate citations to chemical materials, online, and in our library and other
libraries, the American Chemical Society’s CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS is the
world’s most comprehensive source for locating citations to chemical
literature.
The value of this session is four fold:
1. To introduce to you how to identify and obtain informational resources,
from citations located through CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, that will be of
value in your professional career.
2. To help you obtain information that will assist you in completing the
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS instructional work sheet for your course work.
3. To provide information on how to use sources to determine where cited
materials may be located and obtained.
4. To introduce the Division Librarian for the College of Engineering,
Mathematics and Science, who is willing to assist you in the location of
informational materials for your assignments and projects.
[ http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~schwark/ ]
B. CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS [ http://www.cas.org/casdb.html ]
[ http://www.cas.org/PRINTED/printca.html ] Located on the Main floor
of the Library on the Index Tables, just behind and to the left of the
Reference Desk)
1. Completeness
2. Weeklies
3. The printed Sections of Chemical Abstracts
[ http://www.cas.org/PRINTED/sects.html ]
4. Retrospective searching can be done by starting with one of the
following pieces of information:
a. A subject term d. Ring system
b. Chemical substance name e. Author's/inventor’s name
c. Molecular formula f. Patent number
5. Indexes for retrospective searching with above information:
a. Index Guide [use 1982] e. Index of Ring Systems
b. General Subject Index f. Author Index
c. Chemical Substance Index g. Patent Index (International
d. Formula Index coverage)
6. Finding the abstract, full title of the desired publication or journal, and
where the publication or journal may be located. [CASSI- Chemical
Abstracts Service Source Index -includes supplements]
7. How to Search Printed CA (booklet handout)
8. Questions
9. How to Search Printed CA (single sheet handout)
C. Sources to locate where journal titles and other publications that may be
cited in CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS can be obtained.
1. WISCAT (Wisconsin Catalog) [ http://wiscat.brodart.com/ ] Indexes
collections of over 1,200 libraries in Wisconsin. [Useful to locate
materials not in our library, but in other Wisconsin libraries.] Currently
located through the Karrmann Library’s Home Page under 1)
“Electronic Resources,” 2) select “Journal Indexes, Full-Text and
more...,” 3) “Choose an Electronic Resource,” 4) and then use the
“arrow” and scroll down to “WISCAT (Wisconsin books)” and highlight
term, and 5) click on “GO.”
On the “Welcome to the WISCAT On-Line Catalog” click “Click Here
to Begin.” Do a “Browse” search, and select a title search, enter the
title, and click “Begin Search.”
2. WorldCat
[ http://firstsearch.oclc.org/autho=100-197-477;db=WorldCat;FSIP ]
Union Catalog of the members of the OCLC Online Computer Library
Center. Provides bibliographic citations to the holdings of thousands of
libraries in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and other parts of the world.
[Useful to locate materials not in our library and provides easy online
requesting of book material through ILL.] Currently located as WISCAT
in C.1. above. Do a title search.
D. STNEasy. [ http://stneasy.cas.org/html/english/login1.html ]
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS may also be searched online through a
commercial service on the Internet. The service we have at UW-Platteville
is STNEasy. Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American
Chemical Society, has the rights in North America to provide this service for
a fee. Searches are done by faculty after 5:00 p.m., and the cost is based
on “each search, plus a fee for each answer displayed in detail.”
E. CAS STANDARD ABBREVIATIONS
[ http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/standards.html ] (Located with
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS)
F. Library and Information Assistance
1. Reference Desk - Main floor
2. Division Librarian for College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science -
First floor
Email schwark@uwplatt.edu
3. Interlibrary Loan Department - First floor
[ http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~ill/ ]
4. Resources by Academic Area. Chemistry and Engineering Physics
[ http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~library/resources/chemistry.htmlx
]
5. Dr. Charles Sundin’s Home Page
[ http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~sundin/index.htm ]
G. Karrmann Library Holdings of CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS
[Note: Karrmann Library has CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS from v.1, 1907 -
v.91, 1979 in storage behind the Periodicals-Interlibrary Loan Department.
V.92, 1980 - v.97, 1982 are shelved on the Main floor in the Reference
Area. The subscription was discontinued due to budgetary constraints.
Current access is available through database searches mentioned above in
D. above.]
NOTE: YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS DUE Friday, April 20th. [ USE THE 1982
Bound Paper Edition of CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, the 1982 paper
Index Guide, and in most cases the 1907-1979 CASSI. ]
4-2-2001