Class1 - Introduction and General Science

Science and Engineering Resources: Introduction

Joseph KrausPenrose LibraryAssociate ProfessorScience and Engineering Reference LibrarianJanuary 3, 2011

Welcome and Introductions

My backgroundProvide some information about the Sci-Tech LIS class I took, way back in 1994.Let us look at the syllabus.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?

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 Blackboard or some other e-source.

The assigned readings

For next weekThe 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 SkillsPlease read the intro and the section dealing with scholarly communication.

The assignments

Some questions will have clues that are not 100% correct.Some patrons won’t know the title of the article, title of the journal, correct spelling of the author name, etc.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. First assignment is about 50/50. Assignments 2-6 will more electronic than print, about a 70/30 split.

More about the assignmentsPlease put the print reference materials back on the shelf after use, and log out of the electronic databases when you are done (if possible). Please let me know if you have difficulty finding something.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?BlogWikiOther service?Twitter hashtag #lis4375

Guidelines -- Find something interesting to share -- one post or significant comment per week.Opt-out is ok, but I would like you to do something that involves as much contribution in its place.

Brief History of Scientific Communication

Pre 1700’sBooksLetters back and forthFirst 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

STM Serials Crisis

What is this?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serials_crisishttp://libguides.du.edu/scoa

Nature is an example (http://tinyurl.com/5gqghc)Comptes Rendus(http://library.caltech.edu/collections/rpb/chemistry/ComptesRendus.pdf)

General Science Resources

DictionariesEncyclopediasHandbooksDirectoriesA&I ServicesJournals

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

A&I Services

Web of Science DemoJCR – Impact factors demo

Open Access Journals

What is it?Different flavors

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

Overview from Peter Suberhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Web

Google and Google ScholarScience.gov (and all of the other gov agencies, EPA, USGS, NASA, etc.)ePrint server www.arxiv.orgCiteSeerx http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/Scirus www.scirus.comScitation www.scitation.com

Web 2.0

Social Sites such as Facebook, NingBlogs and WikisDeliciousFeed servicesSlideshare.netImages and VideosTwitter

And the #hashtag

STOP!Where are you goingwith that image?

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

YesI am going to talk about…

Copyright.

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

Copyright StuffCreative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/ and http://sciencecommons.org/http://mollykleinman.com/2010/03/18/cc-and-wedding-photos/http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/ video.

More Copyright Stuff“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 reuseShow how to search Flickr for CC licensed images.

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.pdfhttp://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/your-virtual-brandFind a unique name.Mine is jokrausdu for the most part.