Networking and Chemistry
Final Lecture
Internet is powerful tool for
chemists
• Hardware and software architecture of the
internet.
• Finding scientific information
• Faster communication than letter writing
• Writing papers for publication
• Professional networking
• Professional society information
• Conferences and presentations
Internet architecture
Scientific information: Search Engines
• Chemspider1,2
• Web of science2
• Scifinder2 (Chinese Academic Library and
Information System: CALIS Universities)
• reaxys
• Trademark and Patent office of PRC patent
search engine1,2
• US Patent office search engine1,2
1) Free resources
2) Resources available in China
Scientific information: Chemicals
Chemical Abstract Number and Structure searching
• Chemical information from chemical catalogs
• Chem Frog free database with millions of
chemicals.
• emolecules-structure search
• web of science structure search
• Scifinder structure searching
• Search Google or Baidu with CAS number
Finding Chemicals
Need to find
chemical
Structure
search
Chemical
Catalog
Name
search
Chemspider,
Scifinder, reaxys
emolecule
Chemical Registry
Number
Commercial
Sources and prices
To obtain chemicals for work or research
Scifinder, reaxys, web
of science
Complete citation
listing
for proposal writing, patents, papers
Scientific information: Authors
• Useful for job hunting or performance
evaluations
• Web of Science: Author Search
• Find authors resume or curriculum vita online
• Refine author search by institutions he or she
worked at.
• Refine to peer reviewed documents: articles,
notes, reviews, chapters, and books.
• Number of publications
• Citation analysis: number citations & hirsch index
Authors Searching
Authors name
List of
citations
Refine citation list to author
institutions, correct years or field of
study if necessary
Authors resume
from online
New accurate list
of citations
Citation analysis
Total umber of citations,
citations per paper,
citations per year, hirsch
index
Scientific information: Online
learning
• Lectures online as pdfs or ppts
– Dave Evans website at Harvard for advanced
organic notes
– Brian Stolz website at Cal Tech for graduate
student organic presentations.
• MIT online courses (undergrad. & graduate
chemistry) ocw.mit.edu/courses/index.htm
• Virtual organic chemistry
• organometallic hypertext
Writing & submitting Papers
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George whitesides paper on writing
online scientific writing guides
Searching the literature for citations
ACS Guide to Authors
Web of science Journal Citation reports
Journal websites: instructions to authors
Editing: by English major or by software
Online submission
Peer Review
Paper published
Professional networking
• Set up your own website
• Join Linkin or Ushi
• Join Professional societies (ACS, CCS, IUPAC)
– become officer
– organize symposia at conferences
– work on committees
• Write papers, patents, and reviews
• Attend Professional Meetings
• Present talks at Conferences
Job Hunting
Find jobs through:
Professional networks (Linkin or Ushi)
Professional Society job fairs and listings
Professional trade journal listings: MRS Bulletin or
C&E News.
Online job hunting and “head hunters”.
Building a website as your online resume
Professional Societies
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Chinese Chemical Society
American Chemical Society
Royal Chemical Society
International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC)
• Materials Research Society
• International Sol-gel Society
Professional Conferences and
Meetings
• National Meetings of National Chemical Societies
– CCS National Congress, ACS and MRS Spring and Fall
meetings
• International Meetings of Chemical Societies
– Pacifichem 2015, MRS Meetings
• Focus Meetings
– Gordon Conferences
– Zing Meetings
• Trade or industry Meetings
Calendars of conferences available through ACS and
MRS
Summary
The internet is a powerful tool for you to:
– learn
– Maintain current knowledge after graduating
– Find resources (funding, chemicals, etc) to do
work
– Find jobs
– Publish your results
– Find information to help work or write or patent
– communicate with your peers
– magnify your productivity!!!