- Docente: Aldo Andreani
- Credits: 3
- SSD: CHIM/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Scientific Information on Pharmaceutical Products (cod. 0037)
Learning outcomes
Basic knowledge on personal computer and network are required. The students will learn to find information about problems related to drugs.
Course contents
CIB (Centro Inter-Bibliotecario dell'Università di Bologna), OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) and in particular ACNP (Archivio Collettivo Nazionale dei Periodici). Strategies for the search of books but mainly for the search of patents and articles published on scientific journals. Chemical Abstracts: the paper edition, query via telnet with STN (Scientific and Technical Network) and query via graphical interface(Scifinder). Beilsteins: the paper edition and query via Crossfire. Medline and Micromedex. Use of other online databases. How to select the appropriate keywords. How to restrict the search. Use of wildcards and logical operators (AND, OR, NOT). Practical examples of research strategies, result analysis and related feedback for the strategy optimization.
Readings/Bibliography
The students will receive the necessary links to their email addresses.
Teaching methods
The teacher will display the general concepts and the main methods allowing the retrieval of information related to drugs.
Assessment methods
Every student will receive a series of links and will be invited to report his opinion about their usefulness. The final examination will be the development of a search, previously agreed with the teacher, from the strategy to the analysis of the result.
Teaching tools
The libraries of the Faculty of Pharmacy and the University network.
Office hours
See the website of Aldo Andreani