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    Discovering scientific information
    (Chandos Publishing, 2022) Baykoucheva, Svetla
    With so much information available on the Internet, it is difficult for users to figure out which resources are the most appropriate to use. Before going to a bibliographic indexing database, they often do a preliminary search in Google Scholar or in some other popular search engine. A large volume of searches, though, are now also occurring on Baidu Scholar, Dimensions, so.com, x.mol.com, and The Lens—newcomers that are beginning to play a critical role on the information landscape. As the integration of diverse information resources on a single platform is becoming a norm, bibliographic literature databases are sharing "home" with resources for finding properties of chemical compounds, patents, book catalogs, and other resources. This chapter presents different scenarios and strategies for discovering scientific information more efficiently. An overview of the current scholarly communication formats is followed by examination of the major science information resources. The process of discovering scientific information is presented through specific examples of searching for literature, properties of chemical compounds, research datasets, and other scientific information; refining and analyzing search results; and using bibliographic management tools to export, store, and cite references. The chapter also looks at some informal ways of keeping up with the most recent research, using social media and networking.
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    The complexity of chemical information: Interview with Gary Wiggins
    (Chandos Publishing (Imprint of Elsevier), 2015-07-24) Baykoucheva, Svetla
    Gary Wiggins was the head of the Indiana University (IU) Chemistry Library from 1976 to 2003. During the final four years of his professional career, he served as Director of the Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Programs in the IU School of Informatics, helping to create one of the first graduate programs in the United States that offer specialized training in cheminformatics. For many years, he taught courses in chemical information and science reference at IU. His textbook, Chemical Information Sources, was eventually converted to a Wikibook. Dr. Wiggins received several prestigious awards throughout his career, including the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information’s Herman Skolnik Award and the Patterson-Crane Award of the ACS Columbus and Dayton Sections. He was also elected to the Special Libraries Association Hall of Fame. Much of his research involved the improvement of teaching information literacy to chemistry and science students and the improvement of communication among scientists. In May 1991, Gary Wiggins started a chemical information discussion list, CHMINF-L, in Indiana University. Through the years, this forum became an institution of its own, providing a medium for exchanging information and ideas and attracting people interested in chemical information, but who approached it from different perspectives. In this era of social media, it is surprising that an e-mail Listserv based on technology developed over 20 years ago is still thriving. In many ways, CHMINF-L is still the information source for everyone from chemists to science librarians and publishers.
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    Paving the road to more open access for chemistry: Interview with Bryan Vickery, Editorial Director of Chemistry Central
    (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2007) Baykoucheva, Svetla
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    Virtual reality at the Royal Society of Chemistry: Interview with Nigel Lees
    (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2008) Baykoucheva, Svetla
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    The Chemical Heritage Foundation-past, present, and future: Interview with Arnold Thackray
    (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2008) Baykoucheva, Svetla
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    Talking about eScience, libraries, and other things: An interview with Andrea Twiss-Brooks
    (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2012) Baykoucheva, Svetla
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    A new reality for academic chemistry librarians: An interview with Grace Baysinger
    (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2011) Baykoucheva, Svetla
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    Comparison of the contributions of CAPLUS and MEDLINE to the performance of SciFinder in retrieving the drug literature
    (Association of College and Research Libraries * Science and Technology Section, 2011) Baykoucheva, Svetla
    SciFinder (SF) is a platform that provides access to two large databases, the Chemical Abstracts database (CAPLUS) and MEDLINE. This article analyzes and compares the individual and combined contributions of these two databases to the performance of SF in retrieving the drug literature. Test searches in which the names of two individual drugs (lisinopril and lovastatin) and a group of drugs (SSRI antidepressants) were used as keywords retrieved document sets that were analyzed for total and annual literature output, document types, journal coverage, and language of publication. While the total literature output from CAPLUS was larger than the output from MEDLINE (which was attributed to the presence of patents), MEDLINE performed significantly better than CAPLUS in retrieving the non-patent literature. The overlap of documents between CAPLUS and MEDLINE was found to be only 20-24%, depending on the name of the drug used to perform the searches. This article analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of CAPLUS and MEDLINE and shows how these two databases, when searched together in SF, complement each other in covering the drug literature. In addition to the extended coverage of the literature, SF provides sophisticated (but easy-to-use) refining and analytical tools not available on some other platforms.
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    The Chemical Information Bulletin at 60
    (American Chemical Society, 2009) Baykoucheva, Svetla