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Lecture 17: The New Web and Chemical Information
Quiz Questions

Note: Check ALL correct answers to each question. There may be more than one correct answer.

Question 1: The developers of Chemical Markup Language (CML) expect that its increasing use in formatting chemistry publications will foster a revolution in accessibility for chemical information. Why?

  1. _____ CML will enable instant translation of documents in Chinese, Japanese, etc. into English and vice versa.
  2. _____ Tagging of individual data types will enable CML-capable browsers to search Web documents for chemical property data.
  3. _____ CML will allow readers to post comments (i.e. "mark up") the papers they find on the Web.
  4. _____ CML will allow users t easily draw chemical structures using their web browsers.

Question 2: You are searching for information on your term project topic. You search both SciFinder and Google Scholar. You find references in SciFinder that do not appear in Google Scholar. Why might that be?

  1. _____ Google Scholar only covers material published since 1995, when Google was introduced.
  2. _____ Google Scholar only indexes open source journals.
  3. _____ The document is not available on the Web, so Google Scholar can't find it.
  4. _____ Google Scholar does not assigned standardized subject headings, so one of the terms you used was not in the original document, but was assigned by CAS's editors in the SciFinder database.
  5. _____ You used a chemical name as a search term, and Google Scholar does not automatically search synonyms like SciFinder does.
  6. _____ Google Scholar does not index cited references.

Question 3: In the same search, you found some references in Google Scholar that you did not find in SciFinder. Why might that be?

  1. _____ Google Scholar indexes documents from academic websites; CAS does not.
  2. _____ Google Scholar searches the full text of its web documents; SciFinder does not.
  3. _____ Google Scholar covers more patent-issuing countries than SciFinder.
  4. _____ Google Scholar searches the Web for Chemical Markup Language tags.
  5. _____ Google Scholar covers all subbjects in its pool of documents, whereas CAS only indxes those with chemical content for most journals.
Question 4: Searching "fullerenes" in Google Book Search yields hundreds of hits, but very few for which the full text is available on the Web. Why?
  1. _____ "Fullerenes" were first described in the past two decades or so; therefore the books about them are still protected by copyright, and Google is not allowed to digitize them.
  2. _____ "Fullerenes" is not a standard subject heading in Google Book Search.
  3. _____ Buckminster Fuller refuses to allow Google to index his books.
  4. _____ Only books with "fullerenes" in the title have full text available.
Question 5: Examine some of the blogs and Wikis linked in the lecture notes. What are some of the common differences between blogs and Wikis?
  1. _____ Users other than the owner can contibute to blogs, but not to Wikis.
  2. _____ Blogs are customarily arranged chronologically, most recent entries first, where Wikis tend to be grouped by subject.
  3. _____ Wikis are subject to a system of peer-review (like scholarly journals) while blogs are not.
  4. _____ Articles in Wikis can be frequently updated and edited, whereas usually entries in blogs remain stable (so long as the blog lasts), with comments added as part of a thread.

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