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Chemical Literature: A Course Composed of Traditional and Online Searching Techniques
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This paper describes a one-semester undergraduate chemical literature course that incorporates both traditional and online searching techniques. The discussion covers course enrollment and organization, lecture topics, and the associated library exercises, and a correlation table of lecture topics and library exercises is included in the paper.
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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