Describes a number of courses, articles, and books which deal with environmental physics. Provides an outline of a course which relates environmental physics to the content of other physics courses. This course uses relatively recent examples from the environmental literature. (MLH)

Discusses a formal course designed to acquaint students with major sources of chemical information and with procedures for their efficient use. In addition, the place that such a course has in the chemistry curriculum is considered. (Author/JN)

Describes how the Technical Library at Texaco Chemical Company conducts a course in the use of the library and the chemical literature therein. Suggestions are then given on how academia could most thoroughly prepare students to utilize the information available to them in an industrial setting. (Author/JN)

Describes a program developed to expose college chemistry students to some of the more modern information retrieval tools, as computerized online databases. Following classroom lectures and discussions, students individually develop a search statement relevant to their own research needs and run it in the Chemical Abstracts files. (BT)

Describes a course for third- or fourth-year chemical engineering students designed to acquaint them with the chemical industry. The course deals with productivity, characteristics of the chemical industry, sources of information, industrial intelligence, research and development, patent law, technology transfer, and quality control. (TW)