R:Chemical Information for Chemists: A Primer. Currano, J.; Roth D., Eds.; RSC Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781782620655, 978-1-78262-065-5, DOI:10.1039/9781782620655-00001

A:Chemoinformatics. Gasteiger, J.; Engel, T., Eds. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/3527601643, 9783527601646, DOI:10.1002/3527601643

Completion of individual miniproject (searching for data) is required.

1. Introduction, information flow in science

2. Scholar article - structure, citations

3. Excursion in Central Library of ICT Prague

4. Boole algebra, Internet search engines, Web of Science

5. Chemical structures - representation, identifiers, structure editors

6. Chemical abstracts

7. Chemical abstracts

8. Beilstein and Gmelin

9. Tertiary information sources

10. Patents

11. Publishing process - past, present, future

12. Informatics, bioinformatics, classical informatics

13. Standards

1. Introduction, information flow in science

2. Scholar article - structure, citations

3. Identifiers of publications - ISBN, ISSN, DOI. Boole algebra, Internet search engines

4. Citations, citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus

5. Chemical structures - representation, identifiers, linear notation, connection tables, structure editors

6. Chemical Abstracts - history, structure of the printed version. SciFinder - introduction, bibliographic searching

7. Chemical Abstracts - chemical compounds - nomenclature, CAS RN, summary formulas. Bibliographic data for different types of processed documents. SciFinder - structure and reaction searching

8. Beilstein and Gmelin - history. Reaxys database

9. Patents - patenting procedure

10. Standards - standards development, types of standards. ČSN, ISO, CEN

11. Publishing process - past, present, future. Open access

12. Excursion to joint ICT Prague and NTK library

1. Jirat, J. Detailed courses instructions. http://ich.vscht.cz/dokuwiki/chemicka_informatika_2011_2012

2. Jirat, J. Lecture and seminar notes for Chemical Informatics course. http://ich.vscht.cz/courses/CHEMINF-1/slides/Output/index.xhtml

3. Součková, A.; Dibuszová, E.; Znamenáček, J. Citation Generator of ICT Press. http://vydavatelstvi.vscht.cz/apps/uid_ea-002/

Students will be able to:

Understand the basics of scientific publishing process including open-access possibilities

Find and locate documents of various types - scholarly articles, books, e-books, patents, standards; use basic library services, search in catalogue

Work with reference management software, cite research literature

Use citation, factographic, structure and reaction databases on basic level, create query using logical and other operators and structure editors

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