Technical and scientific literature

Ludo Holans

STIMULATE 2004

I. Introduction

• A. Historical overview : from TTY tot Internet

- apparatus

- platforms

- information suppliers

I. Introduction (2)

• B. Literature

• - subject-indexing

• - classifications

• - key-words

• - formal indexing (ISBD, AACR2..)

• - full-text

I. Introduction (3)

• B. Literature

• - primary

• - secondary

• - tertiary

II. Assessment of an I.R.-system

• - searching possibilities

• - costs

• - reliability of data

• - exhaustivity

• - browsing

• - fault-tolerance

• - level

III. Search instruments

• 1. Classical (not gratis)

• access via intranet – servers

• access via internet – hosts

• All kinds of literature (primary, secondary en tertiary)

III. Search instruments

• 2. Internet (gratis)

• A. Classification

• 1. Directories

• http://www.webbrain.com

• http://dmoz.org

• http://www.britannica.com

III. Search instruments (2)

• 2. Search engines (single)• http://www.beaucoup.com• 3. Meta-search engines• a. Metasites • http://www.gogettem.com• http://www.webbrain.com• b. “Human Resource”-website• Question Point• http://www.about.com

III. Search instruments (3)

• A. Pitfalls

• - stoplist with keywords

• - too many keywords and synonyms

• - alternative spelling

• - spelling mistakes

• - Boolean construction too difficult

• B. Solution : use of filters

IV. Literature offer

• 1. Mathematics• - Classical : primary : full-text• secondary : Zentralblatt• MathSciNet• - Internet : repositories or depositories• primary • Multi-repository marthematics collection• http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/mathall/• DML: digital mathematics library•

http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~rehmann/DML/dml_links.html

IV. Literature offer

• 2. Physics• Classical : primary : full-text OIP/AIP• secondary : INSPEC• Internet : repositories or depositories• - primary : Los Alamos http://arxiv.org• institutional : Papyrus•

http://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/view/subjects/phys.html

• CERN

IV. Literature offer

• 3. Chemistry and chemical engineering

• Classical : primary : full-text ACS AiChE

• Secondary : Scifinder/

• other e.g. Corrosion Abstracts

• Kirk-Othmer / CRC / Beilstein /

• Gmelin / Perry /

IV. Literature offer

• 3. (next)• Internet : primary : • repositories or depositories• full-text• Secondary : chemical kinetics database on the web

: http://kinetics.nist.gov/index.php• NDRL/NIST Solution kinetics database on the

web : http://kinetics.nist.gov/solution/index.php

IV. Literature offer

• 3 (next)• Material Safety data sheets : http://ilpi.com/msds/• Chemfinder :

http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/• Chemcyclopedia 2004 :

http://www.mediabrains.com/client/chemcyclop/BG1/search.asp

• Chemical acronyms database : http://www.oscar.chem.indiana.edu/cfdocs/libchem/acronyms/acronymsearch.html

IV. Literature offer

• 3 (next)• Chemical and physical properties :

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/properties.html• Chemweb.com (scirus search) :

http://www.chemweb.com/• IUPAC-NIST Solubility data series :

http://srdata.nist.gov/solubility/• CCD (ChemExper Chemical Directory)• http://search.chemexper.com/main.html

IV. Literature offer

• 4. Geology • Classical : primary : full-text• secondary : Georef /Geoarchive/• Compendex• Internet : primary : full-texts• secundary : Geoscan database• http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/ess/esic/geoscan_e.html• Mining environment database :

http://www.laurentian.ca/library/medb/medlib_e.php• Geo-Guide :

http://www.geo-guide.de/geo-main.shtml• Virtual earth :

http://teachserv.earth.ox.ac.uk/resources/v_earth.html

IV. Literature offer

• 5. Biology – Agriculture• Classical : primary : full-text• secondary : Medline / BIOSIS /• CAB / FSTA /• Agris • Internet : primary : full-text• highwire :• http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl• BioOne :

http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=index-html

IV. Literature offer

• 5. (next)• secondary : Agricola :

http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/• CDL/LOC environmental :• http://www.eip.cdlib.org/eip/isite/keyword.html• Entrez nucleotide – PopSet – Protein –

Structure – • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/• Toxline :

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE

IV. Literature offer

• 6. Engineering

• classical : primary : full-text

• Secondary : Compendex ISMEC – METADEX – FLUIDEX – APID – WEB OF SCIENCE - + SOCIETIES + previous databases

IV. Literature offer

• 7. Computer sciences• Classical : primary : ACM/SIAM• secondary :

Zentralblatt/INSPEC/MATHSCINET• Internet : • Collection of computer science bibliographies :

http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/• Decatomb production database :

http://www.decatomb.com/database• NEC Research Institute Citeseer :• http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/

IV. Literature offer

• 8. Mechanical engineering• classical : primary : full-text : ASME• secondary : Compendex, INSPEC,

ISMEC, WELDASEARCH• Internet : NTRS : NASA Technical Report

Server : http://ntrs.nasa.gov/• Bibliotheken : Yale University :

http://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/mechanical.html

IV. Literature offer

• 9. Electrical and electronics engineering• classical : primary : full-text / IEE/IEEE/IEL• secondary : INSPEC• Internet : Circuits archive - UWEE :

http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/• NTIS :

http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.asp?loc=3-0-0• VLSI : www.mrc.uidaho.edu/vlsi/•

10. Others

• Energy : Energy Citations Database http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/search.adv.jsp/

• Cogprints (also AI, robotics)

• http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk

• CE Database (ASCE)

• http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html

10. Others (2)

• CORDIS• http://dbs.cordis.lu/EN_GLOBALsearch.html• Spectra• - NIST Atomic Spectra Database• http://physicxs.nist.gov/cgi-bin/AtData/main_asd• - Database of Raman spectra

http://www.models.kvl.dk/users/engelsen/specarb/specarb.html

10. Others (3)

• - Patents• USPTO Web Patent Database

http://uspto.gov/• Micropatent (not free)• disciplinary e.g. :• DNA patent database (DPD)

http://dnapatents.georgetown.edu/oshtml/osnmain.htm?/