Crash courses in text- and structure-based literature search Fall 2022

Do you want to save a lot of time during your research or Master's project? The Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center offers three valuable crash courses on scientific information retrieval.

Earlier in your studies, we most likely introduced you to using scientific literature and retrieving information from databases. Frankly, that was ages ago and those were tailored specifically to your lab courses. Now you are doing real research, with real problems, and we want to offer a little help.

The three crash courses review the most important aspects of text- and structure-based literature search. They are independent of each other and designed with minimal overlap in content. All courses will take place on-site, rooms will be announced shortly beforehand, but will most likely be in the HCI building.

Text-Based Literature Search

September 29, 2022, Info & registration.
Find relevant literature in a more efficient and systematic way.

Basic Structure, Property & Reaction Search

October 6, 2022, Info & registration.
Reaxys and SciFinderⁿ for beginners: Use Structure-search to find relevant physical or chemical properties, reaction data, or references.

Advanced Structure, Property & Reaction Search

October 13, 2022, Info & registration.
Small changes with big impact. For users who know the basic mechanics of Reaxys and SciFinderⁿ: Use substructure searches, perform more specific reaction searches (catalysts, surviving functional groups) and combine structure and text search. If there is need, we may also take some time for talking about organometallics.