Information resources professional journals

It is worth noting that the past few years have witnessed tremendous development of web-based information resources. Notably, the PubMed search tool [4] has made the investigation of any life sciences topic much easier. It offers keyword and author (as well as structure and sequence) searches and covers a wide range of medicinal chemistry-related journals. This resource, coupled with e-journals, affords the medicinal chemist the tools to keep up with any research topics of interest. Because of the public nature of the Web, now a chemist can sometimes find critical journal articles on the Web that do not show up until much later in traditional literature sources. It is not uncommon that scientific meeting presentations can be found on the Web. Indeed, the Internet tools we have all become familiar with also have made the professional life of the medicinal chemist much easier. 

The Internet has become the major information resources for biological sciences (Duscart, 2002). One of the most valuable web resources for scientific literatures is PubMed (www.ncbi.nhn.nih.gov/PubMed/), which is accessible from Entrez at http //www.ncbi.nhn.nih.gov/entrez. PubMed is provided by the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institute of Health (NIH). Mauy well-regarded journals in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology and related fields as well as clinical publications of interest to medical professionals are indexed in PubMed. The resource can be searched by a keyword entry with the Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT). Users can specify which database fields to check for each search term. The Preview/Index menu allows the user to build a detailed query interactively. The clipboard allows the user to collect and save individual search results. 

American Water Resources Association (AWRA) http //www.awra.org/ (accessed Novanber 3, 2010). The AWRA s mission is to be the preeminent, multidisciplinary association for information exchange, professional development, and education about water resources and related issues. It publishes the leading U.S. journal Water Resources) in the field. The site contains conference information, publications, employment news, e-leaming courses, links, and membership information. 

Good current sources of information on the environment are newspapers. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and Environment magazine. Professional science writers have been particularly helpful to high school teachers. Several college-level texts (12,13) are resources for high school teachers.and, with appropriate modification, could be used as reference texts by secondary students. 

Columns and review sections in journals or newsletters can help the professional keep abreast of new resources or provide comparative information on established resources in selected areas. Collections of reviews are also available online in such sources as Comprehensive Core Medical Library (CCML) by Ovid Technologies, Inc., Book Review Index (online and in print) by Wilson, and the National Library of Medicine s TOXLINE database. Reviews of popular works dealing with consumer health or environmental concerns can also be found in newspapers, popular magazines, and consumer organization newsletters. Summaries and reviews of online databases and databanks can be found in the information science journals, directories of online resources, and produc-er/vendor documentation. 

Everyone reading this foreword already knows that clinical pharmacy is evidence-based. Those in the field rely heavily on therapeutics textbooks, drug information compendia, journal articles, and the World Wide Web as critical sources of information and knowledge to guide their patient care and research decisions. So what can a resource like the Encyclopedia of Clinical Pharmacy add to the growing (and some might say already overcrowded) library of professional literature ... 

Division of Medicinal Chemistry. URL http //wiz2.pharm. wayne.edu. American Chemical Society is certainly the most prominent association in the field of chemistry. The society publishes 23 journals and The Chemical Abstracts database, which is distributed as an information retrieval product. Their web portal gives access to a wide variety of professional and educational resources. The Medicinal Chemistry Division is offering a wide array of professional education resources. 

Additional resources included in the book are video tapes for training and instruction, information services and databases, libraries, agency contacts, technical journals, and a list of publishers and ordering information. This book will be a useful reference to professionals in the environmental field that need an extensive, but concise source of technical information and contacts. 

Technical societies remain the first and best point of entry for career-related resources, namely ACM and IEEE Computer Society. Keep in mind that other IT professional organizations, journals, or Web portals will likely have their own career-related resources of potential interest to computer engineers. See sections on Journals and Tools for the practitioner for more information. 

Journal of the American Water Works Association (0003-150X) (1551-8833). Both a professional and a scholarly publication, this journal contains information about water quality, water resources, and supply as well as the management and operation of water utilities. 

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