Joe Kraus, a science librarian, discusses providing access to scientific information and evaluating trends in scientific publishing. His goals are to give direction to users and provide an overview of the industry. He outlines trends like electronic journals, databases, and books. Kraus also discusses important individuals and organizations in scientific publishing, how other libraries are handling electronic resources, publishers and societies in different scientific fields, and emerging issues and systems in scholarly communication.

1. Delivering Scientific
Information to the End User
Joe Kraus, Science Librarian, University of Denver,
6/9/99

2. Introduction
The URL is:
– http://www.du.edu/~jokraus/showcase.html
My personal mission is to provide
access, direction, and to evaluate the
overview of the scientific publishing
industry.
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3. Access
To what?
Almost anything - indexes, abstracts,
full text, PDF images, data files, etc.
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4. Direction
Make Webpages, such as:
– http://www.du.edu/~jokraus/NSME/
– http://www.du.edu/~jokraus/sla-st/
Bibliographic Instruction
Individual and group meetings
Set plan for collection development in
the sciences.
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5. Overview of the Scientific
Publishing Industry
Evaluation of the industry
Trends
Important people
Know what other libraries are doing
Communicate with publishers, vendors
& societies
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6. Overview - Trends
Electronic journals and licensing issues
– http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml
Web Databases
– E-Biomed : A Proposal for Electronic
Publications in the Biomedical Sciences
http://www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ebiomed/ebiomed.htm
Electronic books
– NetLibrary - http://www.netlibrary.com/
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7. Overview - People
Andrew Odylzko
– http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/eworld.html
Paul Ginsparg
– http://xxx.lanl.gov/blurb/pg96unesco.html
Stevan Harnad
– http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html
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8. Overview - People
Ann Okerson
– http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/alo.html
Gary Wiggins
– http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/
PAMnet & Sci-Tech Division Listserv
– http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/pamnet.html
– http://www.library.nwu.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/SLA-ST/
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9. Overview - Libraries
Los Alamos National Laboratory
– http://lib-www.lanl.gov/
– “A Harbinger of Change” article
– http://www.onlineinc.com/articles/onlinemag/pack993.html
OhioLink
– http://www.ohiolink.edu/
California State U. RFP
– http://www.co.calstate.edu/irt/seir/RFP/RFP.html
– Healy, L.W., “New Bottles for Old Wine”, Educom Review,
May/June 1999, Vol. 34 (3), p. 46-49
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10. Overview - Publishers/Vendors
Database Evaluation
– Cost, interface, content, license restrictions, etc.
Major publishers in my areas
– Biology
– Chemistry
– Engineering
– Geography & Geology
– Mathematics & Computer Science
– Physics & Astronomy
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11. Overview - Societies
Numerous in Biology
– BIOSIS
Chemistry
– American Chemical Society, Royal Society
of Chemistry
Engineering
– IEEE, IEE, ASCE, ASME, ASTM, ...
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12. Overview - Societies
Geography
– ASPRS
Math & CS
– AMS, MAA, ACM, SIAM, IEEE Computer
Society
Physics & Astronomy
– AIP, APS, IoP, AAS, ASP
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13. Overview - Misc.
SPARC
– http://www.arl.org/sparc/
J-STOR
– http://www.jstor.org
OCLC-ECO
– http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/eco.htm
Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations
– http://www.ndltd.org/
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14. General Science
Science
Nature
Proceedings of the NAS
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
John Wiley
Academic Press
Elsevier / Kluwer / Marcel Dekker
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15. Conclusion
Great changes are occurring
Information Overload
Don’t just take care of the squeaky
wheel.
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16. Conclusion
Balance needs of different departments
and patrons
Marketing of library resources
Learn more about teamwork and
management
Have fun!
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Kraus