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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
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