This document provides an overview of science and engineering resources for librarians, including reference sources like dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks and guides; directories and databases; journals and conference information. It also discusses tools for identifying journal abbreviations and title changes, as well as associations and publications relevant for science librarians. The reading assignments and an upcoming assignment deadline are noted.

1. Science and Engineering Resources:
General Science
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
January 10, 2011

2. The assigned readings
 What did you think of:
 Lina Ortega and Cecelia M. Brown, The Face of 21st Century
Physical Science Librarianship, 2005, Science & Technology
Libraries, 26 (2): 71-90,
 The education and training needs of health librarians—the
generalist versus specialist dilemma, Tatjana Petrinic and
Christine Urquhart, 2007, Health Information & Libraries
Journal, 24(3): 167-176.
 Subject Knowledge in the Health Sciences Library
2005, J Med Libr Assoc. 93(4): 459–466.
 Digital Libraries and Multi-Disciplinary Research Skills
2004, LIBRES 14(2). Section dealing with scholarly
communication.

3. Readings for Next week are
 Chapter 7 - Research in the sciences.pdf (found in
Blackboard ―Content‖ area)
 Information seeking behavior of academic scientists [PDF]
JASIS&T, 58(14):2205–2225, 2007.
 Information needs and information seeking in a
biomedical research setting: a study of scientists and
science administrators, J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 October;
95(4): 426–434.
 Optional: Comparing Journal Use Between Biology
Faculty and Undergraduate Students

4. Assignment One is due Jan. 31st.
 Hand out the assignment for general science, biological
and life science literature.

5. General Science Reference
 Dictionaries
 Encyclopedias
 Handbooks
 Guides to the Lit.
 Directories
 A&I Services
 Journals and their abbreviations
 Conferences

6. Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
 Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
 Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
 Stedman's Medical Dictionary
 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
 AccessScience
 Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
 Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology

7. Handbooks
 Most handbooks are published for a specific subject
area, but some are for a wide range of subjects.
 CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook
 Springer handbook of nanotechnology
 Handbook of optical fibre sensing technology
 Engineering Handbook
 Civil Engineering Handbook
 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

8. Abbreviations and other difficulties
 ATM story
 Zebra Muscles? Mussels?
 Encyclopedia of Mathematics?
 Modelling the colour of behavioural organisations
 Show chart from the RSC.

9. Guides to the Literature
 A guide to the guides to the literature
 http://libguides.du.edu/aecontent.php?pid=72721&sid=801941

10. Directories
 Plunkett's
 Some are online
 American Men & Women of Science
 Also online
 Used to be called just American Men of Science

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

12. A&I Services
 Web of Science / Web of Knowledge / Science Citation Index
(SCI)
 Scopus (from Elsevier)
 SCImago
 Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS
 Medline / PubMED
 Chemical Abstract Service (CAS)
 Available to us through SciFinder
 INSPEC
 Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 MathSciNet (AMS)
 ACM Guide to Computing Literature
 Compendex / Engineering Index / Engineering Abstracts

13. Journals
 Nature
 Science
 PNAS
 AJ, ApJ
 PRA, PRB, PRC, PRD, PRL
 JACS
 Annual Reviews
 Annals of the NYAS

14. Journal Abbreviations & Title changes
 TLAs and FLAs
 CASSI
 http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp
 Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Abbreviation
 http://bianca.penlib.du.edu/record=b1965692

15. Conferences and Associations
 IEEE
 IET (used to be called IEE)
 ACM
 Geological Society of America (GSA)
 AGU
 American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
 APS
 APS
 Lots more…

16. Associations for Librarians
 SLA
 DPAM
 DST
 DBio
 DChem, etc.
 ALA / ACRL
 STS
 MLA
 ASEE
 AAAS
 CAL

17. Journals, mags and blogs for science
librarians
 Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (ISTL)
 Science and Technology Libraries
 JASIST
 Online Magazine
 Confessions of a Science Librarian
 http://scientopia.org/blogs/christinaslisrant/
 http://undergraduatesciencelibrarian.wordpress.com/
 A bunch are aggregated at
http://friendfeed.com/scitech-librarians