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Science and Engineering Resources:
General Science
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
March 23, 2010
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 Skills2004, LIBRES 14(2). Section dealing with scholarly communication.
Readings for Next week are
Chapter 7 - Research in the sciences.pdf (found in
blackboard ―Course Documents‖)
Information seeking behavior of academic scientists [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
The assignment due April 13
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
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
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
Directory of Graduate Research (American Chemical
Society)
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
Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS
Medline / PubMED
Chemical Abstract Service (CAS)
INSPEC
Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
MathSciNet from the AMS
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
Compendex / Engineering Index / Engineering Abstracts
Journals
Nature
Science
PNAS
ApJ
PRD
JACS
Annual Reviews
Annals of the NYAS
Journal Abbreviations & Title changes
TLAs and FLAs
CASSI
http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp
PTA:BA
http://bianca.penlib.du.edu/record=b1965692
Show chart from the RSC.
Conferences
IEEE
IET (used to be called IEE)
ACM
Geological Society of America (GSA)
American Society for Microbiology (ASM
APS
APS
Lots more…