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Robert Q. Thompson

Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH 44074

Alison Scott Ricker

Science Library, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074

J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76 (11), p 1590

DOI: 10.1021/ed076p1590

Publication Date (Web): November 1, 1999

Abstract

We first offered Chemical Information as a one-credit, semester-long course in 1993 and have continued to team-teach it each fall. We offer this summary of our course as a model that might be adapted in other settings, acknowledging that no single course can adequately prepare chemists for the many challenges involved in finding, evaluating, and utilizing chemical information. The focus on information retrieval, evaluation, and presentation in a separate course has worked well for us, successfully integrating concepts of information literacy in a chemical context. We cover a wide array of topics, beginning with print and electronic resources on our campus and moving quickly to databases and other sources on the Internet. Searching CA Online via STN Express and STN Easy is emphasized more than any other single source. We have described the course in some detail elsewhere and give here a synopsis of our current approach and significant changes in the course over the last two years.

Keywords (Audience):

Upper-Division Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Curriculum

Keywords (Feature):

Chemical Information Instructor

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Collaborative / Cooperative Learning

Keywords (Subject):

Undergraduate Research

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