This document provides an overview of science and engineering resources and upcoming assignments for a class. It discusses concerns with the previous assignment, assigned readings for the current week which include book chapters and journal articles, and announces the assignment due on May 11th about mathematics and computer science resources. It also provides links to sign up for presentation topics and contribute to the class blog. In the last section, it demos the Physics and Astronomy Digital Library.

1. Science and Engineering Resources:
Physics and Astronomy
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
April 27, 2010

2. Concerns with Assignment Two
1B. This is a toughie. Many people could not find the
online version of the article from Chemical
Communications.
1C. Nobody got extra credit for finding the source that
shows melting point of Cryptopine is 220-221 in another
source.
4B. Literature Links for Cryptopine – Answer should be
six. Demo. http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Some people got the extra credit for seeing that the
Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association is in PASCAL,
not really in Penrose.

3. The assigned readings
What did you think of:
Information seeking behavior of scientists in the
electronic information age
Relying on electronic journals: Reading patterns of
astronomers
Optional -- Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through
Three Evolutionary Phases

4. Readings for next week are
Fowler Book Chapter (PDF in Bb, print in Ref.)
Tucker Book Chapter (PDF in Bb, print in Ref.)
Accessibility and Use of Information Sources Among
Computer Scientists and Software Engineers in Israel
Scholarly publishing in the Internet age: a citation analysis
of computer science literature

5. The assignment due May 11
Hand out the assignment for mathematics and computer
science resources.

6. Housekeeping stuff
Presentation topics: go to http://lis4375.wetpaint.com/
Still need some of you to sign up.
Please contribute or comment on the blog.

7. Demo Physics and Astro Resources
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_abstracts.html