### [Chemical Information Course at Vanderbilt](https://osf.io/3phgz/) # Chemical Literature: CHEM 3600/5600 ## Time and Location This course will take place entirely on Zoom and will meet every **Thursday from 12:45pm until 1:35pm**. **Zoom Link**: http://tiny.cc/ChemLit_2021_zoom ## Schedule for First Day **First**, we will run through the syllabus and talk about the purpose for this course. **Second**, there will be a short assessment quiz that will help me understand how much experience each of you have with concepts related to information science and academic publishing. This quiz will NOT be graded so try not to stress out too much about it. You will need a laptop to complete this quiz as it is on Google Forms. **Third**, we will discuss citation managers, why they are important, and how to use them. **Finally**, I will show you what we will cover in the next class session. ## Course Description This course will be divided into 3 sections. The **1st section** will focus on searching for chemical information and judging information quality and authority. In this section we will discuss topics that have been widely discussed in the media and compare the information presented in the media to information presented in scholarly journals. There will likely be differing opinions on some of these topics during class discussions, but the goal of this course is not to endorse one view or another, merely to see how different types of information are vetted and communicated. The **2nd section** of the course will focus on scholarly publishing and how it affects the scientific process. The history and economics of this process will be discussed, as well as some issues and possible solutions. In this section of the course we will have 2 guest speakers thathave had different roles in the scholarly publishing process. The 1st will be a Prof. Larry Marnett, editor of Chemical Research in Toxicology, and the 2nd will be Julie Loder, director of acquisitions at Vanderbilt University Libraries. The **3rd section** of the course will focus on research data management. We will discuss why organizing and sharing research data is important and how and where to share data. Topics such as how scientists manage and share data today, how practices can be improved, how to write data management plans, which repositories to use to share data, and open-access will be covered in this section. ## Lecture Recordings Recordings for all lectures are provided [here](https://vanderbilt365-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/joshua_d_borycz_vanderbilt_edu/EruBcJLuGJFDhL8IXmh0Ki4BSbWQBq5QevR2ig946TW8tA?e=GOWSzx). ## Syllabus @[osf](9jtby)