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C 400 Pop Quiz 2
How and Where to Start
A = True B= False
  1. A database summary sheet gives examples of search and display possibilities for the database on an online vendor's system.

    2. This is true. You should consult the database summary sheets before beginning an online search in order to avoid wasting money when connected to the vendor's system.

  2. OCLC's CA Student Edition database is just like the STN CA File. It covers the same number of journals as does the CA File.

    3. Definitely False. There are only a couple of hundred journals covered in the CA Student Edition versus thousands found in the STN CA File. Although both go back to the beginning of 1967 and both cover dissertations, the other types of documents found in the CA File (patents, books, technical reports, conference proceedings) are not found in the CA Student Edition.

  3. CambridgeSoft's ChemFinder can be used without charge on the Internet to find sources of data on chemical substances.

    4. True. We used this in the "Internet and Other Guides" exercise.

  4. An online bibliographic database typically has more years of the database available for searching than would a CD-ROM version of the database.

    5. True. At Indiana University, we have only the 1989- CD-ROMs for Science Citation Index, whereas the online version of the database, SciSearch (or the Web version, Web of Science) extends to 1974.

  5. When you use an OR operator between two search terms, you can expect a greater number of hits in your answer set than if you used the AND operator.

    6. True. OR moves your search outward by finding documents that have even one of the terms you OR together. AND contracts your search by requiring that all of the terms ANDed together be in each document in your answer set.

  6. Front-end searching software, such as Grateful Med or STN Express, makes it easier for a novice to do online searching.

    7. True. These software tools take away most of the necessity of knowing the vendor's search software commands.

  7. Searching CARL UnCover with a Chemical Abstracts Registry Number is a great way to find information on a chemical compound.

    8. False. On the exercise that dealt with "General Information on Computer Searching," we found that using a CAS RN does nothing because CARL does not index the articles. It merely records the titles of the articles and lets the computer generate the word index. Nobody publishes an article with a CAS RN in the title.

  8. Current awareness services usually cost money. The more customized they are for an individual's interest, the more expensive they usually are.

    9. True. As with any customized product, from automobiles to tailor-made clothes, the cost of a current awareness service goes up as more effort is required to make it just like you want.

  9. Authors of review articles are experts in a field who sift out the best literature on a topic, write a brief summary of the significant findings in the works, and give full bibliographic references to the primary works.

    10. True. Another thing that review articles often do is present a kind of tutorial on the topics being covered.

  10. The most important English-language encyclopedia for answering questions on many diverse topics in chemistry is the Encyclopedia of Analytical Science.

    11. False. Emblazon the name on your consciousness: Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.