Information Literacy and chemistry: bumper issue! Wikipedia, critical thinking, embedding, peer-review and more....

The whole, open access, latest issue of the Journal of Chemical Education (vol. 93 issue 3) focuses on teaching information literacy to chemistry students: lots of useful articles here! The one that first caught my attention was the following, so I've included the abstract of that. The whole issue is at http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jceda8/93/3#Articles

- Walker, M. and Li, Y. (2016). Improving Information Literacy Skills through Learning To Use and Edit Wikipedia: A Chemistry Perspective. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 509–515. "Our students rely on Wikipedia on their mobile devices or laptops, since it is an extremely rich and broad resource. This article overviews the Chemistry content on Wikipedia and how students can learn to use it effectively as an information resource, critically evaluating content, and learning key information literacy skills. We also discuss how students’ information literacy skills can be improved through a class project where students edit Wikipedia articles. Through such projects, students may begin to appreciate where and how chemical information is generated, gathered, developed, and shared in the real world"


- Zane, M. and Tucci, V. (2016). Exploring the Information Literacy Needs and Values of High School Chemistry Teachers. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 406-412
- Shultz, G. and Li, Y. (2016). Student Development of Information Literacy Skills during Problem-Based Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiments. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 413-422
- Yeagley, A. et al. (2016). The Stepping Stone Approach to Teaching Chemical Information Skills. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 423-428
- Greco, G.(2016). Chemical Information Literacy at a Liberal Arts College. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 429-433
- Danowitz, A. et al. (2016). A Combination Course and Lab-Based Approach To Teaching Research Skills to Undergraduates. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 434-438
- Jacobs, D., Dalal, H. and and Dawson, P. (2016). Integrating Chemical Information Instruction into the Chemistry Curriculum on Borrowed Time: A Multiyear Case Study of a Capstone Research Report for Organic Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 444-451
- Jacobs, D., Dalal, H. and and Dawson, P. (2016). Integrating Chemical Information Instruction into the Chemistry Curriculum on Borrowed Time: The Multiyear Development and Evolution of a Virtual Instructional Tutorial. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 452-463
- Cowden, C. and Santiago, M. (2016). Interdisciplinary Explorations: Promoting Critical Thinking via Problem-Based Learning in an Advanced Biochemistry Class. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 464-469
- Baykoucheva, S., Houck, J. and White, N. (2016). Integration of EndNote Online in Information Literacy Instruction Designed for Small and Large Chemistry Courses. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 470-476
- Zwicky, D. and Hands, M. (2016). The Effect of Peer Review on Information Literacy Outcomes in a Chemical Literature Course. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 477-481
- Scalfani, V., Frantom, P. and Woski, S. (2016). Replacing the Traditional Graduate Chemistry Literature Seminar with a Chemical Research Literacy Course. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 482-487
- Currano, J. (2016). Introducing Graduate Students to the Chemical Information Landscape: The Ongoing Evolution of a Graduate-Level Chemical Information Course. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 488-495
- Kamijo, H. Creating an Adaptive Technology Using a Cheminformatics System To Read Aloud Chemical Compound Names for People with Visual Disabilities. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 496-503
- Pence, H. and Williams, A. (2016). Big Data and Chemical Education. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 , 504-508
- Stuart, R. and McEwen, L. (2016). The Safety “Use Case”: Co-Developing Chemical Information Management and Laboratory Safety Skills. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 516-526
- Tomaszewski, R. (2016). The Concept of the Imploded Boolean Search: A Case Study with Undergraduate Chemistry Students. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 527-533
- Härtinger, S. and Clarke, N. (2016). Using Patent Classification To Discover Chemical Information in a Free Patent Database: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 534-541
- Glasser, L. (2016). Crystallographic Information Resources. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 542-549
- Rzepa, H. (2016). Discovering More Chemical Concepts from 3D Chemical Information Searches of Crystal Structure Databases. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 550-554
- Méndez, E. and Cerdá, M. (2016). Discovering Reliable Sources of Biochemical Thermodynamic Data To Aid Students’ Understanding. Journal of Chemical Education, 93 (3), 555-559
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