- Literature Searching
- Chemical Patent Searching
- Technical Due Diligence
- Competitive Intelligence
Many projects are basically a matter of some specific chemical information that can be quickly located by an experienced chemical literature consultant.
I can search the chemical literature with breadth and depth.
Some searches need to focus on the latest information available, such as due diligence for an acquisition or patent work. Other searches, say for a tough chemistry problem, may need to go back to the early chemical literature, sometimes in another language.
My literature training and experience result in searches going back to the early chemical literature, if necessary, and not just the past 20-30 years accessible in computer searches. Access to the whole range of modern chemical databases, engineering databases and other scientific information sources complements my manual searching capabilities.
Patents can be great sources of chemical information beyond their role in intellectual property protection, and these can be included in a search or be the main focus of a search. Patent searching can be its own specialty depending on the kind of information desired.
Since I am probably knowledgeable about your search content, I can analyze and comment upon the search results, providing context and evaluation, instead of just a pile of printouts that you would receive from some librarians. While library science graduates have advantages over non-technical personnel, they are seldom Ph.D. chemists.
Easy web access to a multitude of search engines and the many results they generate can give the impression that everything can be had for free on the internet. Realize that publishers don't give away their good stuff for free, however. They charge for their better publications and the indexers and abstracters charge for their highly specialized searchable databases. The extent of information available on the internet is truly breathtaking but certainly not everything is free.
I can search the internet as well as the chemical literature to find that bit of information about a chemical, a supplier, a service provider or whatever you need. Some queries are better addressed by web searching than by commercial databases. Much of my technical database search training benefits my specialized and thorough web-searching techniques and capabilities.
My internet-searching abilities complement and leverage my chemical literature resources, producing useful competitive intelligence on companies and products.
