1. Science and Engineering Resources:
Introduction
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
January 3, 2011

2. Welcome and Introductions
My background
Provide 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?

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

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 Blackboard
or some other e-source.

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
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.

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).
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.

8. Collaborative Project
What do you want to use?
Blog
Wiki
Other 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.

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

12. STM Serials Crisis
What is this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serials_crisis
http://libguides.du.edu/scoa
Nature is an example (http://tinyurl.com/5gqghc)
Comptes Rendus
(http://library.caltech.edu/collections/rpb/chemistry/ComptesR
endus.pdf)

13. General Science Resources
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Handbooks
Directories
A&I Services
Journals

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

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
CiteSeerx http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
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.net
Images and Videos
Twitter
And the #hashtag

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 Stuff
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.

22. 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 reuse
Show how to search Flickr for CC licensed images.
Mashups –
http://www.lessig.org/ and http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/
Thanks to http://ff.im/hGPEu

23. 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.pdf
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/your-
virtual-brand
Find a unique name.
Mine is jokrausdu for the most part.