Series editor’s foreword

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Series editor’s foreword V
3. About the contributors IX
4. Contents XIII
5. Preface to the fourth edition XV
6. Section A: General Sources
7. CHAPTER ONE. Information, communication and libraries 3
8. CHAPTER TWO. Primary literature 17
9. CHAPTER THREE. Abstracting and indexing services 31
10. CHAPTER FOUR. Books, reviews, dictionaries and encyclopaedias 49
11. CHAPTER FIVE. Online searching for chemical information 67
12. CHAPTER SIX. Chemical structure handling by computer 105
13. Section Β: Pure Chemistry
14. CHAPTER SEVEN. Standard tables of physico-chemical data 119
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. Inorganic and nuclear chemistry 139
16. CHAPTER NINE. Organic chemistry: the Beilstein Handbuch 147
17. CHAPTER TEN. Organic chemistry: other reference works 163
18. Section C: Industrial Chemistry
19. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Patents 191
20. CHAPTER TWELVE. Technocommercial information 213
21. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Health and safety 231
22. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The pharmaceutical industry 251
23. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Agrochemical and food industries 279
24. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. National and international governmental information sources 289
25. Section D: Conclusion
26. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Practical use of chemical information sources 305
27. Index-glossary of acronyms, databases, etc. 325
28. Index 335