Objectives

• Key IT skills for chemistry students
• Discover scientific information held in sophisticated chemistry databases
• Learn about search logic
• Perform biblometric searches to analyze publication trends
• Use chemical structure to find reactions and chemical properties
• Perform retrosynthetic analysis using know chemical pathways.

Task

Please complete the following tasks:

• learn to use Web of Science, SciFinder, Scopus, Reaxys and Google Scholar
  
  
• Complete the chemistry databases worksheet - coming soon in Michaelmas Term
  
  Academic Year 2012-2013 version of the practical now includes searching with SciFinder.

get the work signed off by Karl Harrison in the IT Suite. Sign-off time is 12.05 and takes about 60 mins, since this takes the form of tutorial about databse searching.

this practical should take up to 4 hours and fulfills your IT training for the third year

you can do this work from any computer connected to the University network, but if you do it in the IT suite then Karl Harrison will be available to help