CHEMINFO%20and%20Groth:%20The%20Web%20and%20Chemistry

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CHEMINFO and Groth The Web and Chemistry

• Gary Wiggins
• Chemistry Library
• wiggins_at_indiana.edu
• IU Forum on Digital Libraries
• April 16, 2002

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CHEMINFO Chemical Information Sources

• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo
• Resource Guides
• Instructional Materials
• Archives of CHMINF-L the Chemical Information
  Sources Discussion List
• Databases

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CHEMINFO Resource Guides

• SIRCh Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry
• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/cis_ca.html
• CCIIM Clearinghouse for Chemical Information
  Instructional Materials
• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/cciimnro.html

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Taxonomy (Classification)

• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/cis_ca.html

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SIRCh Index

• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/cisindex.html

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SIRCh Selected Chapter Titles

• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/cis_ca.html

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SIRCh Analytical Chemistry

• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/ca_accc.html

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CHEMINFO Instructional Materials

• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/instructional_mat
  erials.html
• Four one-hour undergraduate courses (C371-2,
  C471-2)
• Two three-hour graduate courses C571-2)

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CHMINF-L Chemical Information Sources
Discussion List

• http//listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html
  
• In existence since May 1991
• Over 1250 subscribers
• Sponsors Chemical Information Sections of
• American Chemical Society
• Special Libraries Association
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• American Society for Information Science
  Technology

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CHMINF-L Archives as a Knowledge Base

• Many librarians on CHMINF-L, which began in May
  1991.
• Search for the History of Chemistry found 226
  entries found on 4/14/02, e.g.,
• Alchemy pictures
• History of the journal Chemical Physics Letters
• The chemistry of embalming

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CHEMINFO Databases

• Chemical Acronyms Database
• http//scilibs.chem.indiana.edu/cfdocs/libchem/sea
  rchu.html
• Mentioned in Science, February 2002
• Chemical Reference Sources Database
• http//www.indiana.edu/libchem/crsd.html
• Faculty Publications of the IU Chemistry Dept.
• http//www.indiana.edu/libchem/introductiond.html
  
• IU Molecular Structure Center
• http//www.iumsc.indiana.edu/

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Groth, P. (Paul), 1843-1927.Chemische
Krystallographie

• Leipzig W. Engelmann, 1906-19. 5 v.
• T. 1. Elemente Anorganische Verbindungen ohne
  Salzcharakter. Einfache und complexe Halogenide,
  Cyanide und Azide der Metalle, nebst den
  zugehörigen Alkylverbindungen.
• T. 2. Die anorganischen Oxo- und Sulfosalze.
• T. 3. Aliphatische und hydroaromatische
  Kohlenstoffverbindungen.
• T. 4. Aromatische Kohlenstoffverbindungen mit
  einem Benzolringe.
• T. 5. Aromatische Kohlenstoffverbindungen mit
  mehreren Benzolringen heterocyclische
  Verbindungen.

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Groth Access Database

• Portion of the table with chemical names,
  molecular formulas, SMILES, and links to images
  on the Web.

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Groth Image from page 4 6

• http//www.indiana.edu/cheminfo/Groth/groth400006
  .pdf

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XMorph Rendering of a Crystal
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SMILES input for Structure Searching
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SMILES for 1,2,3-Tribromobenzene
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Future Developments

• Metadata coding and XML for selected CHMINF-L Web
  pages
• Links to XMorph renderings from the Groth
  database
• Structure searching of the Groth database with
  JME Molecular Editor input of SMILES
• Put DB on the Web with Cold Fusion

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Acknowledgments

• CHEMINFO
• SLIS students, especially Keith Schreiber Sonia
  Gupta
• Professional society sponsors (ACS, RSC, SLA,
  ASIST)
• UITS personnel, especially Peg Bassett
• Steve Rosenthal, Chemical Abstracts Service

• Groth
• Chemical Informatics students, especially
• Ronald M. Brown
• Dustin M. Hilkey
• Alicia M. Prater
• Ronald D. Willis
• IUB Libraries Digital Library Program,
  especially
• Jenn Riley
• Dedong Wu for XMorph
• Peter Ertl for JME Molecular Editor
• John Bollinger of the IU MSC
• UITS for Veritas