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A selection of ready-made bookmarks to the most useful Library services and collections in chemistry.  

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Kresge Library Workshop Calendar

Scheduled for Fall 2009 ...

• RefWorks
• Finding Articles in Chemistry: ...

See the Workshop Calendar for details!

LibX Extension for Firefox & IE
Install this even if you don’t use the toolbar, to enable the right-click menu.  Customize your menu choices by using the LibX Preferences (eg, enable amazon.com, Search360, GoogleScholar or WorldCat right-click searching).

CAS provides excellent tutorials, how-to guides, and documentation.

SciFinder Scholar Help: Complete documentation for the client (desktop) version
SciFinder Web Help: Complete documentation for the web version

Support & Training: SciFinder Web and SciFinder Scholar Client

• Content - summary information and quick facts
• How-To guides - quick (2-3 page), basic overviews in pdf or html format
• Strategies - intermediate-level tips on implementing certain search steps (eg, locking ring formation, searching for preparations, polymer formula searching)
• Tutorials - short (10-12 min.) recorded sessions on specific topics (eg, substructure searching, reaction searching) for both web and client versions.   Requires registration and brief WebEx setup, similar to e-Seminars

Topic Searching in SciFinder - Strategies & Tips  (ppt)

Getting Started Guides (PDF)

• SciFinder Scholar 2007 for Windows (client version)
• SciFinder Scholar 2007 for Mac OS X (client version)

Crossfire Commander Training Materials provided by Elsevier-MDL.  Quick "How-Do-I" examples show you how to:

• Master the basics of navigation
  
• Structure and reaction searching
• G-group searching
• Text searching
• Working with citations from a hitset

CrossFire Beilstein Quick User Guide (pdf, version 7.1)

Beilstein Search Help from the Univ. Wisconsin Chemistry Library offers helpful html and flash video demonstrations of several Beilstein features (setting search preferences; structure/substructure searching; reaction and property searching; exporting results).

CrossFire Gmelin
Download the complete manual or download by the chapter.

Google Scholar's support pages give you an overview ("About Google Scholar") and some advanced search tips.

Within Google Scholar preferences, be sure to enable the Dartmouth Library Links so you can easily get to Dartmouth's full-text holdings.

Another good tip: if you use RefWorks or EndNote, you can enable an export citation link in Google Scholar preferences.

From the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre:

• Cambridge Structural Database overview
• CSD documentation
  - Release & installation notes
  - User guides & tutorials for Conquest, Mercury & other system components
• CSD Teaching Modules
  

Brief online tutorials give an introduction to Science of Synthesis; demonstrate reaction and structure search tips; show how to search for an organometallic complex or create a chemoselective reaction search.

Science of Synthesis Online Tutorials & Prerecorded Webinars

Science of Synthesis - Getting Started Manual   (1.73 MB)

Science of Synthesis - Product Brochure

RefWorks

Quick Start Guide
(non-English language versions)

Zotero

Quick Start Quide
(non-English language versions)