Information Competencies for Chemistry Undergraduates/Further Reading

Further Reading

Note: Readings are free unless indicated by “$$”

Introduction

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2015. Undergraduate Professional Education in Chemistry: ACS Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures for Bachelor’s Degree Programs, Section 7.2 Chemical Literature Skills. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/2015-acs-guidelines-for-bachelors-degree-programs.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

Wenzel, Thomas J., McCoy, Anne B., and Landis, Clark R. 2015. An Overview of the Changes in the 2015 ACS Guidelines for Bachelor’s Degree Programs. J. Chem. Educ. 92, 965-968. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00265 $$ (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2008. Undergraduate Professional Education in Chemistry: ACS Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures for Bachelor’s Degree Programs, Section 7.2 Chemical Literature Skills. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/degreeprogram/2008-acs-guidelines-for-bachelors-degree-programs.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2015. Development of Student Skills in a Chemistry Curriculum. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/degreeprogram/development-of-student-skills.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2016. Excellent Undergraduate Chemistry Programs. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/degreeprogram/excellent-undergraduate-chemistry-programs.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

ALA/ACRL. 2000. Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm (accessed February 9, 2011)

ALA/ACRL/STS IL Standards Review Task Force. 2011. STS IL Standards Report. Appendix C. Information Literacy in Chemistry and Biochemistry. http://connect.ala.org/node/174740 (accessed March 12, 2013)

ALA/ACRL/STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology. 2006. Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/infolitscitech.cfm (accessed February 7, 2011) Shorter version: http://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/Science_IL_Standards_and_Teaching_Ideas (accessed February 9, 2011)

ALA/ACRL/Instruction Section. Information Literacy in Chemistry. http://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/Information_Literacy_in_Chemistry (accessed February 9, 2011)

Grafstein, Ann. 2002. A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy. Journal of Academic Librarianship 28 (4), 197-204. $$

1: Big Picture: the Library and Scientific Literature

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2015. Supplements to the ACS Guidelines -- Student Skills: Chemical Information Skills. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/degreeprogram/chemical-information-skills.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

Chemical Information Sources. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chemical_Information_Sources (accessed August 15, 2017)

Chemical Information Sources/Chemical Information Instructional Materials (CIIM). https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chemical_Information_Sources/CIIM (accessed August 15, 2017)

Chemical Information Sources/Chemical Information Instructional Materials (CIIM). How to Teach Chemical Information. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chemical_Information_Sources/CIIM/How_to_Teach_Chemical_Information (accessed August 15, 2017)

Smith, Eleanor M. 2003. Developing an Information Skills Curriculum for the Sciences. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Spring 2003. http://www.istl.org/03-spring/article8.html#13 (accessed August 15, 2017)

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. http://openoasis.org/ (accessed August 15, 2017)

2: Chemical Literature

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2008. CPT Recommended Journal List. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/cpt-journal-list.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

Journals (selected articles)

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship [selected articles] http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/ (accessed February 9, 2011)

Journal of Academic Librarianship [selected articles] $$

Journal of Chemical Education [selected articles] $$

Science & Technology Libraries [selected articles] $$

XCITR (Explore Chemical Information Teaching Resources) archived resource https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/bh845qb8447 (accessed August 15, 2017)

3: Properties, Spectra, Crystallographic, and Safety Information

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2015. Supplements to the ACS Guidelines -- Student Skills – Laboratory Safety. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/degreeprogram/laboratory-safety.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Committee on Chemical Safety Task Force for Safety Education Guidelines. 2016. Guidelines for Chemical Laboratory Safety in Academic Institutions https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/chemicalsafety/publications/acs-safety-guidelines-academic.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

XCITR (Explore Chemical Information Teaching Resources) archived resource https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/bh845qb8447 (accessed August 15, 2017)

4: Scientific Communication and Ethical Conduct

The DOI® System. https://www.doi.org/index.html (accessed August 15, 2017)

DOI Lookup. https://www.crossref.org/guestquery/ (accessed August 15, 2017)

DOI (digital object identifiers) http://www.sciencemag.org/site/misc/doi.xhtml (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2015. Supplements to the ACS Guidelines -- Student Skills – Preparing a Research Report. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/degreeprogram/preparing-a-research-report.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Committee on Professional Training. 2015. Supplements to the ACS Guidelines -- Student Skills – Guidelines for the Teaching of Professional Ethics. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/training/acsapproved/degreeprogram/guidelines-for-the-teaching-of-professional-ethics.pdf (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Ethical & Professional Guidelines. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/careers/career-services/ethics.html (accessed August 15, 2017)

American Chemical Society. Materials for Ethics Education—Case Studies https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/about/governance/committees/ethics/ethics-case-studies.html (accessed August 15, 2017)