American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— March 1996 —
Database Producers and Vendors
Database vendors (Dialog, STN International, etc.) offer:
- printed guides and workshops on how to search:
- their system;
- databases on their system.
- small inexpensive versions of the databases useful for training purposes.
- some vendors provide printed and computerized materials for instructors.
- some vendors have booths at ACS and other conferences where staff answer questions.
- staff a Help Desk, for phone call questions.
Major vendors used by academic communities are:
- Dialog Information Service (Knight-Ridder Information, Inc)
2440 El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA 94040
Customer Service Phone: 800/ - STN International
Chemical Abstracts Service
2540 Olentangy River Road
P.O. Box 3012
Columbus, OH 43210-0012
Customer Service Phone: 800/753-4227
Help Desk Phone: 800/848-6533
Internet: help@cas.org (for Help Desk Questions)
Database producers (Chemical Abstracts Service, Institute for Scientific Information, Chapman & Hall, Beilstein Institute, CRC, Biological Abstracts, etc.) offer:
- printed guides and workshops on how to search their databases.
- some organizations provide printed and computerized materials for instructors of computer searching.
- some organizations have booths at ACS and other conferences where staff answer questions.
- offer help either via a Help Desk for phone call questions, or via a Web Site.
Major database producers are:
- Chemical Abstracts Service
2540 Olentangy River Road
P.O. Box 3012
Columbus, OH 43210-0012
Customer Service Phone: 800/753-4227 - Institute of Scientific Information
- Beilstein
- Gmelin
- Chapman & Hall
- CRC
- Derwent
- IFI/Plenum