This document provides an introduction and overview for a science and engineering resources class. It discusses the instructor's background, learning objectives for the class, assigned readings for the first week, guidelines for assignments, and an overview of topics to be covered throughout the course including the scientific process, scholarly communication trends, and resources for science information including dictionaries, journals, databases, and the open web. Copyright and developing an online identity are also briefly covered.
1. Science and Engineering Resources:
Introduction
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
March 23, 2010
2. 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
4. 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.
5. 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 Libr
Assoc. 2005 October; 93(4): 459–466.
Digital Libraries and Multi-Disciplinary Research Skills
Please read the intro and the section dealing with scholarly
communication.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Scientific Process -- Evidence
http://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio372/class/behavior/sciproc.htm
11. Flow of Scientific Information
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/grad/researchskills/flow_of_info.html
13. 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)
15. A&I Services
Web of Science Demo
JCR – Impact factors demo
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. STOP!
Where are you going
with that image?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/2880982738/
20. Yes
I am going to talk about…
Copyright.
D. Sharon Pruitt http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3561662932/in/set-72157610551917961/
21. 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