Library research journals

Research articles of interest to biochemists may appear in many types of research journals. Research libraries do not have the funds necessary to subscribe to every journal, nor do scientists have the time to survey every current journal copy for articles of interest. Two publications that help scientists to keep up with published articles are Chemical Titles (published every 2 weeks by the American Chemical Society) and the weekly Current Contents available in hard copy and computer disks (published by the Institute of Science Information). The Life Science edition of Current Contents is the most useful for biochemists. The computer revolution has reached into the chemical and biochemical literature, and most college and university libraries now subscribe to computer bibliographic search services. One such service is STN International, the scientific and technical information network. This on-line system allows direct access to some of the world s largest scientific databases. The STN databases of most value to life scientists include BIOSIS Pre-views/RN (produced by Bio Sciences Information Service covers original research reports, reviews, and U.S. patents in biology and biomedicine), CA (produced by Chemical Abstracts service covers research reports in all areas of chemistry), MEDLINE, and MEDLARS (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Index Medicus, respectively cover all areas of biomedicine). These networks provide on-line service and their databases can be accessed from personal computers in the office, laboratory, or library. Some... 

Used online databases and foreign language sources to conduct extensive library research, facilitating Dr. Benning s publication of three articles in scholarly journals. 

Agrafiotis, D. (2001) Multiobjective optimization of combinatorial libraries. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 45 (3/4), 545-566. 

Medline covers primarily biomedical literature, containing more than 13 million citations (October, 2002) of articles from more than 4600 journals published since 1958 [18]. The database covers basic biomedical research, clinical sciences, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences, and life science. Medline, a subset of PubMed, is a bibliographic database produced by the US Nationcil Library of Medicine (NLM). The database is available free of charge via SciFinder Scholar or PubMed [19]. 

The next time you are in the library, look through a recent issue of an analytically oriented journal, such as Analytical Chemistry. Focus on the titles and abstracts of the research articles. Although you will not recognize all the terms and methods, you will begin to answer for yourself the question What is analytical chemistry ... 

GORE. The CORE Electronic Chemistry Library is a joint project of Cornell University, OCLC (On-line Computer Library Center), Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), and the American Chemical Society. The CORE database will contain the full text of American Chemical Society Journals from 1980, associated information from Chemical Abstracts Service, and selected reference texts. It will provide machine-readable text that can be searched and displayed, graphical representations of equations and figures, and full-page document images. The project will examine the performance obtained by the use of a traditional printed index as compared with a hypertext system (SUPERBOOK) and a document retrieval system (Pixlook) (6,116). 

Page 546 (Figure 13.24) is courtesy of Simon Fraser/Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers, Inc. Newcastle upon Tyne. Page 565 (Figure 13.37) is adapted from R. Isaksson, J. Roschester, J. Sandstrom, and L. G. Wistrand, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985, 107, 4074 075 with permission of tlie American Chemical Society. 

Each chapter on technique ends with the short section called "Where Do I Go from Here " This includes suggestions for those who wish to investigate a topic further. It is not possible for a book of this nature to cover all issues of implementation for each technique. We assume that those who want to pursue a topic further will have access to library facilities and to the Internet, so no attempt has been made to provide a comprehensive reading list. Regular journal articles provide overviews of research in each area, so the section on applications toward the end of each chapter similarly provides examples of how each method is used rather than a comprehensive review. 

The Scientific World at http //www.thescientihcworld.com/ offers literature searching through SciBase, a collection of databases of scientific, technical, and medical research literature. SciBase currently covers more than 19 million documents published since 1965 in more than 30,000 journals. SciBase content is derived from databases created by the National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE), the British Library, BIOSIS, and PASCAL, as well as CAB ABSTRACTS. Abstracts are sometimes available free and individual articles are available for purchase. 

The following other activities are part of the Franklin Institute Library, Science Museum, Planetarium, Journal, Medal Awards, Barcol Research Foundation and Institute Education... 

This book is meant to be placed near working benches in laboratories, rather than on the shelves of libraries. That is why full experimental parts for important oxidations are provided. Although plenty of references from the literature are facilitated, this book was written with the aim of avoiding as much as possible the need to consult original research articles. Many researchers do not have scientific libraries possessing numerous chemical journals ready available, and, many times, although such library might be... 

The most immediate impact of the world wide web has been to make available catalogues of libraries and archives of major academic and other institutions. Thus precious, and still essential, research trips to facilities distant from a scholar can be well planned and efficiently executed. As national and international digitization projects112 come to fruition over the next decade, the experience of engaging with collections is likely to change considerably as it will become possible for materials to travel to scholars rather than essential for scholars to travel to all materials. Already, many journals in the field have online as well as paper versions, while some journals are now available only online. 

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