Learning To Search in Ten Easy Steps:A Review of a Chemical Information Course

摘要

Since 1995,the University of Pennsylvania(Penn)Department of Chemistry has mandated a course in chemical information searching for all of its first-year graduate students.This course has evolved over the years to meet the needs of beginning chemists in a changing information environment.The current model consists of a ten-week series of classes covering the major sources in chemical information.Students are required to complete a homework assignment for each resource learned,take a final exam based on all of the resources,and create a guide to the literature on a subject of their choice.Students pass the course if they complete all of these requirements and receive a score of at least 70% of all possible points.