Chemical Literature (Chem 184/284)

Lecture 11: Chemical Abstract, Part I, Print:
Quiz Questions

Question 1: Access to Chemical Abstracts was once free to American Chemical Society members; now it is terrifically expensive. What are some of the logical reasons why?

1. _____ Chemical Abstracts Service was purchased from ACS by a multinational corporation in the 1980's.
   
2. _____ The sheer number of papers published per year in the chemical sciences has grown by a factor of almost a factor of 70 since 1907.
   
3. _____ A paid staff of PhD chemists, editors, computer support staff and R&D teams are a lot more expensive to maintain than a group of scattered volunteers.
   
4. _____ Chemical information is tremendously valuable, especially to corporate users.
   
5. _____ The executives at CAS are getting rich.

Question 2: Which of the following are NOT indexed by Chemical Abstracts?

1. _____ Journal articles published in languages other than English.
   
2. _____ Dissertations in chemistry and chemical engineering.
   
3. _____ Patents on mechanical and electrical inventions.
   
4. _____ Journal articles published only on the Web.
   
5. _____ Articles on chemical topics in Wikipedia.
   

Question 3: Which of the following features of Chemical Abstracts were implemented to make it easier for users of th printed product to browse through the issues and find items of interest?

1. _____ Grouping the published abstracts into 80 subject sections.
   
2. _____ Providing a concordance of equivalent patents from different national patent offices in the patent index
   
3. _____ Putting chemical names in "inverted" form.
   
4. _____ Abbreviating journal names and common chemical terms in the abstracts.
   
5. _____ Treating salts of organic acids as derivatives of the acid for substance names and molecular formulas.
   

1. _____ Use of standardized subject headings in the volume and collective indexes.
   
2. _____ Abbreviating journal names and common chemical terms in the abstracts.
   
3. _____ Listing of abstracts in the subject indexes only under the most specific heading(s) that would apply.
   
4. _____ Using Hill order for molecular formulas.
   
5. _____ Getting indexing data for dissertations and technical reports from other indexing sources, rather than from the original documents.
   

1. _____ Sodium chloride.
   
2. _____ Aspirin.
   
3. _____ Sodium propionate.
   
4. _____ Benzene, 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitro-.
   
5. _____ Mercury, dimethyl-.
   

1. _____ NaCl.
   
2. _____ C₆H₅COOH.
   
3. _____ C₁₀H₁₀Fe.
   
4. _____ C₂H₃O₂, potassium salt.
   
5. _____ BrH₄N.
   

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