Science and Engineering Resources: Introduction

Science and Engineering Resources:

Introduction

Joseph Kraus

Penrose Library

Associate Professor

Science and Engineering Reference Librarian

March 23, 2010

Welcome and Introductions

My background

Provide some information about the Sci-Tech LIS class I took, way back in 1994.

Why am I teaching this course?

At what level will this be taught?

Who are you?

What is your background?

What do you want to learn in the class?

Look at the syllabus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmavanhecke/3546512338/

The assigned readings

Read to understand the gist of the articles. Try to understand the core concepts. Why the heck did I assign that reading?

There is no need to memorize the minutiae, but you still need to read more than just the abstract.

I will try to have everything available through Bb, but some things might only be available on print reserve.

The assigned readings

For next week

The Face of 21st Century Physical Science Librarianship, Science & Technology Libraries, Volume 26, Issue 2 December 2005, pages 71-90, Lina Ortega and Cecelia M. Brown. ortega.pdf is also in Blackboard.

The education and training needs of health librarians—the generalist versus specialist dilemma, Tatjana Petrinic and Christine Urquhart, Health Information & Libraries Journal, Volume 24 Issue 3, Pages 167-176.

Subject Knowledge in the Health Sciences Library, J Med LibrAssoc. 2005 October; 93(4): 459–466.

Digital Libraries and Multi-Disciplinary Research SkillsPlease read the intro and the section dealing with scholarly communication.

The assignments

There will be some ―negative‖ answers.

We won’t have print/electronic access to some of the answers. Don’t spend forever trying to find something that doesn’t exist or we have no direct access.

With some patrons, they might want a comprehensive search on a specific topic to find nothing. (Dissertation or patentability)

Combination of print and electronic resources.

The first assignment will be about 70/30. The following weeks are about 50/50.

More about the assignments

Please put the print reference materials back on the shelf

after use, and log out of the electronic databases when

you are done (if possible).

Cut-n-paste is ok, or have good hand writing.

I'd like to know the title of the source used, the volume

number and the page number(s) used. [I don’t need an

annotation.]

Please use the given sources. Wikipedia is not an answer

for the assignments.

Collaborative Project

What do you want to use?

Blog

Wiki

Other service?

Twitter hashtag #lis4375

What are the guidelines? (Find something interesting to

share -- one post or comment per week.)

Opt-out is ok.

Brief History of Scientific Communication

Pre 1700’s

Books

Letters back and forth

First English language scientific Journal from1665. Henry

Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society of London,

launched the Philosophical Transactions.

Scientific Process -- Evidence

http://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio372/class/behavior/sciproc.htm

Flow of Scientific Information

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/grad/researchskills/flow_of_info.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmavanhecke/3546512338/

STM Serials Crisis

What is this?

http://www.arl.org/sc/

http://libguides.du.edu/scoa

Nature is an example (http://tinyurl.com/5gqghc and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29)

Comptes Rendus(http://library.caltech.edu/collections/rpb/chemistry/ComptesR

endus.pdf)

General Science Resources

Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

Handbooks

Directories

A&I Services

Journals

A&I Services

Web of Science Demo

JCR – Impact factors demo

Open Access Journals

What is it?

Different flavors

http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/ASO-LIBER-2004.htm

Overview from Peter Suber

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Web

Google and Google Scholar

Science.gov (and all of the other gov agencies, EPA, USGS, NASA, etc.)

ePrint server www.arxiv.org

CiteSeer citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis

Scirus www.scirus.com

Scitation www.scitation.com

Web 2.0

Social Sites such as Facebook, Ning

Blogs and Wikis

Delicious

Feed services

Slideshare

Images and Videos

Twitter The backchannel http://bit.ly/9UQyDP

STOP!

Where are you going

with that image?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/2880982738/

Yes

I am going to talk about…

Copyright.

D. Sharon Pruitt http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3561662932/in/set-72157610551917961/

Copyright, Copyleft and Fair Use

Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/ and http://sciencecommons.org/

http://mollykleinman.com/2010/03/18/cc-and-wedding-photos/

http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/ video.

―Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving‖

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

http://www.librarycopyright.net/fairuse/

Also http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

Flickr Commons and reuse

Mashups –

http://www.lessig.org/ and http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

Thanks to http://ff.im/hGPEu

Create an Online Identity

http://rogersurbanek.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/iolug-

speakers-notes-on-online-identity/

http://rogersurbanek.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/online-

identity-iolug.pdf

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/your-

virtual-brand