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Lecture 17: EndNote Web; "Special Chemical Searching"
Quiz Questions

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

Question 1: EndNote Web in tightly integrated with the Web of Knowldege database platform. Why?

  1. _____ Web of Knowledge has an inherent record fromat which works better with personal bibliographic database software than do other article indexes.
  2. _____ EndNote Web and its desktop parent, EndNote, are both produced by a division of Thomson Scientific, the company that produces Web of Knowledge.
  3. _____ Making it easy for searchers to connect from Web of Knowledge to EndNote Web helps foster user loyalty to both products.
  4. _____ Thomson Scientific is trying to compete with ProQuest's databases and RefWorks bibliographic software product.

Question 2: When importing references into EndNote Web, you are advised to always check the records before using them. Why might that be?

  1. _____ Some databases do not list the full data required by some citation styles.
  2. _____ Some databases' field names to not line up precisely with the import fieldsin EndNote Web, and so the data may be mislabeled.
  3. _____ Unusual document types (.e., non-journal sources) may not fit deasily in the standard EndNote records.
  4. _____ Proofreading any document that you are going to publish is a good idea.

Question 3: Which of the following types of chemists and biochemists is more likely to have need of the special features of the STN Messenger command language to search for substances?

  1. _____ Polymer chemists.
  2. _____ Theoretical physical chemists.
  3. _____ Molecular biologists.
  4. _____ Pharmaceutical chemists.
  5. _____ Natural products synthetic chemists.
Question 4: UC-eLinks has a feature for generating formatted citations from database records you obtain by searching our online databases. Given that, why might you want to go the extra step of saving the records in EndNote Web?
  1. _____ UC-eLinks has only five citation styles, whereas EndNote Web has dozens, including the ACS journals style.
  2. _____ You can use EndNote Web free from anywhere, whereas UC-eLinks can only be used off-campus through the proxy server.
  3. _____ You can search within your EndNote Web database to find particular references.
  4. _____ You can manually add references to your EndNote Web folder from sources other than online databases.
  5. _____ EndNote Web can incorporate URLs and links to electronic journal articles.
Question 5: If the STN Messenger command language version of the Chemical Abstracts files has every capability that SciFinder has and many more besides, why would an academic user preferentially used SciFinder?
  1. _____ It searches a subset of the most useful documents and substances, so the answer sets are more focused.
  2. _____ SciFinder is free to all academic institutions, whereas STN is fee-based.
  3. _____ Command languages require more effort to learn, and if you aren't using them all the time, they're easy to forget.
  4. _____ STN charges by the length of time the search takes, putting a premium on efficient searching; SciFinder allows you to experiment with your searches in a more leisurely fashion.

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