1. Science and Engineering Resources:
General Science
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
January 10, 2011

2. 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 Library
2005, J Med Libr Assoc. 93(4): 459–466.
 Digital Libraries and Multi-Disciplinary Research Skills
2004, LIBRES 14(2). Section dealing with scholarly
communication.

3. Readings for Next week are
 Chapter 7 - Research in the sciences.pdf (found in
Blackboard ―Content‖ area)
 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

4. Assignment One is due Jan. 31st.
 Hand out the assignment for general science, biological
and life science literature.

5. General Science Reference
 Dictionaries
 Encyclopedias
 Handbooks
 Guides to the Lit.
 Directories
 A&I Services
 Journals and their abbreviations
 Conferences

6. 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
 AccessScience
 Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
 Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology

7. 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

8. Abbreviations and other difficulties
 ATM story
 Zebra Muscles? Mussels?
 Encyclopedia of Mathematics?
 Modelling the colour of behavioural organisations
 Show chart from the RSC.

9. Guides to the Literature
 A guide to the guides to the literature
 http://libguides.du.edu/aecontent.php?pid=72721&sid=801941

10. Directories
 Plunkett's
 Some are online
 American Men & Women of Science
 Also online
 Used to be called just American Men of Science

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

12. A&I Services
 Web of Science / Web of Knowledge / Science Citation Index
(SCI)
 Scopus (from Elsevier)
 SCImago
 Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS
 Medline / PubMED
 Chemical Abstract Service (CAS)
 Available to us through SciFinder
 INSPEC
 Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 MathSciNet (AMS)
 ACM Guide to Computing Literature
 Compendex / Engineering Index / Engineering Abstracts

13. Journals
 Nature
 Science
 PNAS
 AJ, ApJ
 PRA, PRB, PRC, PRD, PRL
 JACS
 Annual Reviews
 Annals of the NYAS

14. Journal Abbreviations & Title changes
 TLAs and FLAs
 CASSI
 http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp
 Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Abbreviation
 http://bianca.penlib.du.edu/record=b1965692

15. Conferences and Associations
 IEEE
 IET (used to be called IEE)
 ACM
 Geological Society of America (GSA)
 AGU
 American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
 APS
 APS
 Lots more…

16. Associations for Librarians
 SLA
 DPAM
 DST
 DBio
 DChem, etc.
 ALA / ACRL
 STS
 MLA
 ASEE
 AAAS
 CAL

17. Journals, mags and blogs for science
librarians
 Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (ISTL)
 Science and Technology Libraries
 JASIST
 Online Magazine
 Confessions of a Science Librarian
 http://scientopia.org/blogs/christinaslisrant/
 http://undergraduatesciencelibrarian.wordpress.com/
 A bunch are aggregated at
http://friendfeed.com/scitech-librarians