C3200 Chemical Information Search

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Ctibor Mazal, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Marek Nečas, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Ctibor Mazal, CSc.
Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ctibor Mazal, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Main objectives of the course can be summarized as follows: to learn fundamentals of chemical information searching; to understand specifity of primary, secondary, and tertiary sources of information and some general rules for searching the literature. to know how to use the main tools of on-line searching the databases accessible in the Chemistry Department - Web of Scince (ISI products), SciFinder Scholar (CA+), Reaxys (Beilsteins and Gmelins database); to get a brief piece of information about CCDC searching; to learn about main sources of biochemical and enviromental infomations on Internet.
Learning outcomes
After accomplishing the course, students will:
- understand basic structure of presented information databases; - be able to practically use the databases for searching chemical information;
- explore the databases with use of bibliographic as well as structural data.
Syllabus
  • 1. Sources of chemical information. Primary, secondary, and tertiary literature. Various types of documents. General strategy of literature search.
  • 2. ISI products - Current Contents, Scientific Citation Index. Citing analysis. Introduction into Web of Science.
  • 3. Chemical Abstracts. Organization of CA, structure of abstract, indexes. Localization of abstract and original document. SciFinder and STN access to CA.
  • 4. Beilsteins Handbuch der organischen Chemie. Structure of database and Beilstein's system. Beilstein Commander - on-line access to the Beilstein database using CrossFire.
  • 5. Information search using CrossFire - a practice.
  • 6. On-line access to primary documents. E-journals, ScienceDirect and similar tools. Searching patents - DEPATIS.
  • 7. Library catalogues accessible on Internet.
  • 8. Searching the information on Internet. ChemWeb and similar metapages.
  • 9. Information search - a practice using accessible tools.
  • 10. Main information sources of inorganic chemistry. Gmelin's Handbook, organization of database, on-line access using Beilstein Commander and CrossFire.
  • 11. The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center, access to the database, strategy of information search.
  • 12. Main sources of biochemical information. Important journals, serials, handbooks, and textbooks.
  • 13. Practice in searching the accessible databases (Medline etc.). Biochemical information on Internet, important links: http://orion.chemi.muni.cz/pskl/vyuka/biochem_info.html
  • 14. Searching the important information sources of environmental chemistry.
Literature
  • VYMĚTAL, Jan. Odborná literatura a informace v chemii. 1. vyd. Praha: Orac, 2001, 377 s. ISBN 80-86199-33-9. info
  • ŠILHÁNEK, Jaroslav. Úvod do chemické informatiky. 1. vyd. Praha: VŠCHT, 1994, 151 s. ISBN 80-7080-218-9. info
  • KLÁN, Petr. Chemická informatika :úvod do používání Internetu. Praha: Ústav informatiky Akademie věd ČR, 1999, 1 svazek (. ISBN 80-86238-01-6. info
Teaching methods
Lactures
Assessment methods
Oral exam with practical on-line searching using SciFinder Scholar, Web od Science, and/or CrossFire Commander.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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