Science and Engineering Resources:General Science

Joseph KrausPenrose LibraryAssociate ProfessorScience and Engineering Reference

LibrarianJanuary 10, 2011

The assigned readings

What did you think of: Lina Ortega and Cecelia M. Brown, The Face of

21st Century Physical Science Librarianship, 2005, Science & Technology Libraries, 26 (2): 71-90,

The education and training needs of health librarians—the generalist versus specialist dilemma, Tatjana Petrinic and Christine Urquhart, 2007, Health Information & Libraries Journal, 24(3): 167-176.

Subject Knowledge in the Health Sciences Library2005, J Med Libr Assoc. 93(4): 459–466.

Digital Libraries and Multi-Disciplinary Research Skills

2004, LIBRES 14(2). Section dealing with scholarly communication.

Readings for Next week are Chapter 7 - Research in the sciences.pdf

(found in Blackboard “Content” area) Information seeking behavior of academic scie

ntists [PDF]

JASIS&T, 58(14):2205–2225, 2007. Information needs and information seeking in

a biomedical research setting: a study of scientists and science administrators, J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 October; 95(4): 426–434.

Optional: Comparing Journal Use Between Biology Faculty and Undergraduate Students

Assignment One is due Jan. 31st.

Hand out the assignment for general science, biological and life science literature.

General Science Reference

Dictionaries Encyclopedias Handbooks Guides to the Lit. Directories A&I Services Journals and their abbreviations Conferences

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary Stedman's Medical Dictionary

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology AccessScience

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Physical Science and

Technology

Handbooks

Most handbooks are published for a specific subject area, but some are for a wide range of subjects. CRC Materials Science and Engineering

Handbook Springer handbook of nanotechnology Handbook of optical fibre sensing technology Engineering Handbook Civil Engineering Handbook CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Abbreviations and other difficulties ATM story Zebra Muscles? Mussels? Encyclopedia of Mathematics? Modelling the colour of behavioural

organisations Show chart from the RSC.

Guides to the Literature

A guide to the guides to the literature http://libguides.du.edu/aecontent.php?

pid=72721&sid=801941

Directories

Plunkett's Some are online

American Men & Women of Science Also online Used to be called just American Men of Science

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmavanhecke/3546512338/

A&I Services

Web of Science / Web of Knowledge / Science Citation Index (SCI)

Scopus (from Elsevier) SCImago

Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS Medline / PubMED Chemical Abstract Service (CAS)

Available to us through SciFinder INSPEC Astrophysics Data System (ADS) MathSciNet (AMS) ACM Guide to Computing Literature Compendex / Engineering Index / Engineering

Abstracts

Journals

Nature Science PNAS AJ, ApJ PRA, PRB, PRC, PRD, PRL JACS Annual Reviews Annals of the NYAS

Journal Abbreviations & Title changes TLAs and FLAs

CASSI http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp

Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Abbreviation http://bianca.penlib.du.edu/record=b1965692

Conferences and Associations

IEEE IET (used to be called IEE) ACM Geological Society of America (GSA) AGU American Society for Microbiology (ASM) APS APS Lots more…

Associations for Librarians

SLA DPAM DST DBio DChem, etc.

ALA / ACRL STS

MLA ASEE AAAS CAL

Journals, mags and blogs for science librarians

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (ISTL)

Science and Technology Libraries JASIST Online Magazine Confessions of a Science Librarian http://scientopia.org/blogs/christinaslisrant/ http://

undergraduatesciencelibrarian.wordpress.com/ A bunch are aggregated at

http://friendfeed.com/scitech-librarians