Science and Engineering Resources:

Biological and Life Sciences

Joseph Kraus

Penrose Library

Associate Professor

Science and Engineering Reference Librarian

April 6, 2010

The assigned readings

What did you think of:

Chapter 7 of the book, Research Within the Disciplines.

Information seeking behavior of academic scientists in

JASIST

Information needs and information seeking in a

biomedical research setting

Optional: Comparing Journal Use Between Biology Faculty and Undergraduate Students

Readings for Next week are

Local Evaluation of Chemistry Journals

Spotlight on the Subject Knowledge of Chemistry

Librarians: Results of a Survey

Access and retrieval of recent journal articles: a

comparative study of chemists and geoscientists

The assignment due April 20

Hand out the assignment for chemistry information.

Quote from Information Needs in the

Sciences

Joe says some stuff here.

More about terminology

ATM

Zebra muscles

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7969902@N07/510672745/

Explode

Q. In the Topic search field, what does "Map to MeSH and

Explode" mean?

A: The "Map to MeSH and Explode" option maps your

terms to MeSH and includes any terms subordinate to

the main MeSH terms in your search. For example, if you

search the term Food Poisoning and you choose to

explode it, your search will also retrieve records

containing MeSH terms describing specific types of food

poisoning, e.g. Botulism, Mushroom Poisoning, and

Salmonella Food Poisoning.

http://science.thomsonreuters.com/support/faq/wok3new

/medline/#Explode

A&I Services

Demo Medline

Demo PubMED

Demo Biological Abstracts

Other databases are useful such as Agricola

ASFA

Biological Sciences (from CSA)

CAB Abstracts

CINAHL

Health Reference Center

ProQuest Health and Medical Complete

Water Resources Abstracts

Web of Science

Zoological Record