For week three of LIS 4375.

1. Science and Engineering Resources:
Biological and Life Sciences
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
April 6, 2010

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 April 20
 Hand out the assignment for chemistry information.

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

6. More about terminology
 ATM
 Zebra muscles

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

8. 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

9. 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