1.
Using ‘databases’ to find
chemical information
LINDA NEYER, SCIENCE LIBRARIAN
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA

2.
Databases – what are they?
How differ from Google?
What types?
Library catalog
Reference books
Article databases

3.
Info organized in ‘fields’

4.
How do databases differ from each other?
 subjects
 types of publications
 dates
Other differences
 indexing
 content

5.
Special database features
Truncation (aka ‘wildcards’)
e.g., chemi* truncated will find:
chemical
chemicals
chemistry
chemists
etc.

6.
More special features
Boolean operators, e.g.

7.
Field specific searching

8.
Questions?