| This column provides instructors with practical information on a wide range of topics related to teaching information-searching skills to undergraduates, graduate students, and other researchers. Although most articles are academic in focus, chemists in other settings will find material that can be adapted to their needs. Non-academics are also encouraged to consider submissions describing successful instructional programs in their organizations that are of potential interest to academic instructors. Information is provided in print, and on the Web via JCE Online. Topics include, but are not limited to: - course descriptions: full semester or short courses
- workshops
- integration of information instruction into one or more courses
- integration of WWW sources into instruction
- specific types of information: e.g., inorganic chemistry, organic reactions, polymers, bioorganic chemistry
- specific types of materials: e.g., patents, journal articles
- specific sources and databases: e.g., Science Citation index, Chemical Abstracts
- specific types of searches: e.g., structure, reaction, cited reference
- current awareness on a topic
- teaching techniques: e.g., interactive teaching
Contributions should provide information needed by readers to reproduce similar experiences in their institutions. Authors should include: - description of the instruction;
- staffing;
- costs involved and means of funding;
- logistics - hardware, software, scheduling; practice questions and exam questions;
- how the information instruction contributed to the overall instruction program; and any other information the author thinks other instructors would find valuable.
The Editor welcomes communications by potential authors and by all readers regarding ideas and topics of articles for publication in the column. Potential authors are urged to contact the Editor to submit an early draft version for consideration and comment, before completing a paper and submitting it to the editorial office in Wisconsin.
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