This document provides information about biological and life sciences resources for science and engineering. It discusses readings on information seeking behavior of scientists, compares journal use between biology faculty and students, and announces upcoming readings on evaluating chemistry journals and the subject knowledge of chemistry librarians. The document also lists databases relevant to biological sciences and notes an assignment due on chemistry information. It concludes with links about "#libday6" and offering a mini tour of the Penrose Library.

1. Science and Engineering Resources:
Biological and Life Sciences
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
January 24, 2011

2. The assigned readings
What did you think of:
Chapter 7 of the book, Research Within the Disciplines.
Information seeking behavior of academic scientists in
JASIST
Information needs and information seeking in a
biomedical research setting
Optional: Comparing Journal Use Between Biology
Faculty and Undergraduate Students

3. Readings for Next week are
Local Evaluation of Chemistry Journals
Spotlight on the Subject Knowledge of Chemistry
Librarians: Results of a Survey
Access and retrieval of recent journal articles: a
comparative study of chemists and geoscientists

4. The assignment due February 7th
Hand out the assignment for chemistry information.

5. Quote from Information Needs in the
Sciences
Joe says some stuff here.

6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7969902@N07/510672745/

7. Explode
Q. In the Topic search field, what does "Map to MeSH and
Explode" mean?
A: The "Map to MeSH and Explode" option maps your
terms to MeSH and includes any terms subordinate to
the main MeSH terms in your search. For example, if you
search the term Food Poisoning and you choose to
explode it, your search will also retrieve records
containing MeSH terms describing specific types of food
poisoning, e.g. Botulism, Mushroom Poisoning, and
Salmonella Food Poisoning.
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/support/faq/wok3new
/medline/#Explode

8. A&I Services
Demo Medline
Demo PubMed
Demo Biological Abstracts
Other databases are useful such as
Agricola
ASFA
Biological Sciences (from CSA)
CAB Abstracts
CINAHL
Health Reference Center
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete
Water Resources Abstracts
Web of Science
Zoological Record

9. Other thoughts for the day
Today is #libday6
http://librarianbyday.net/2011/01/14/library-day-in-the-life-round-6-
begins-january-24th-2011/
http://librarydayinthelife.pbworks.com/w/page/16941198/FrontPage
Let’s take a mini tour of Penrose.