1. Science and Engineering Resources:
Mathematics and Computer Science
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
May 4, 2010
2. Good News and Bad News
Speakers for May 18th.
Gabby Wiersma and Jack Maness from CU Boulder.
3. Concerns with Assignment Three
Hand back the assignment.
This was an eas(ier) assignment.
A couple of people got extra credit for finding the
preprint/postprint article concerning child friendly cities.
The author put it up on a cudenver.edu server.
Nobody noticed that one could get “When the weather
is uggianaqtuq” through Prospector.
http://prospector.coalliance.org/record=b19126253
4. The assigned readings
What did you think of:
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. Readings for next week are
None!
There will be some readings to do before the May 18th
class.
Please keep on contributing to the blog…
6. The assignment due May 11
Hand out the assignment for engineering and technology
resources.
7. Presentations next week
Rachel Bates Wilfahrt: arXiv.org and why scientists use
this service
Natalie Mitchell: Resources for the Health Sciences
Joanna Nelson: science.gov
Alison Fudge: GIS
8. Demo Math and CS Resources
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/msc/msc2010.html