SciFinder searches the largest database of chemical information in the world.  Scopus and Web of Science are both multidisciplinary databases with complimentary coverage of the literature.  Knowing how to effectively search each of these using text terms can go a long way to streamlining your information gathering process and saving you time in the laboratory and the library.  This 60-75-minute session will introduce advanced tricks and tips for searching the three largest science databases in our collection that will help you retrieve more good science and fewer irrelevant results.