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…