Science and Engineering Resources:Mathematics and Computer Science

Joseph KrausPenrose LibraryAssociate ProfessorScience and Engineering Reference LibrarianMay 4, 2010

Good News and Bad NewsSpeakers for May 18th.Gabby Wiersma and Jack Maness from CU Boulder.

Concerns with Assignment ThreeHand back the assignment.This was an eas(ier) assignment.A couple of people got extra credit for finding the preprint/postprint article concerning child friendly cities. The author put it up on a cudenver.edu server.Nobody noticed that one could get “When the weather is uggianaqtuq” through Prospector.

http://prospector.coalliance.org/record=b19126253

The assigned readings

What did you think of:Fowler Book Chapter (PDF in Bb, print in Ref.) Tucker Book Chapter (PDF in Bb, print in Ref.)Accessibility and Use of Information Sources Among Computer Scientists and Software Engineers in IsraelScholarly publishing in the Internet age: a citation analysis of computer science literature

Readings for next week areNone! There will be some readings to do before the May 18th

class.Please keep on contributing to the blog…

The assignment due May 11

Hand out the assignment for engineering and technology resources.

Presentations next weekRachel Bates Wilfahrt: arXiv.org and why scientists use this serviceNatalie Mitchell: Resources for the Health SciencesJoanna Nelson: science.govAlison Fudge: GIS

Demo Math and CS Resources

http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/msc/msc2010.html