Finding What You Need on the Internet - PHYSICS...

Internet Collaborators June 2007

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Finding What You Need on Finding What You Need on the Internet:the Internet:

Celia M. ElliottDepartment of Physics

University of [email protected]

Copyright © 2007 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

ProspectiveProspectiveCollaborators for Collaborators for AstrophysicistsAstrophysicists

Though the title of this presentation indicates that it applies to astrophysicists in particular, it includes information that is useful to researchers from ALL scientific disciplines.


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Goals for this sessionGoals for this sessionLearn to use the NSF and other databases

to identify prospective collaboratorsLearn how to find contact information for

American scientists at universities and national laboratories

Goals:1. Learn to use the NSF and other databases to identify prospective collaborators2. Learn how to find contact information for American scientists at universities

and national laboratories


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Finding a prospective scientific Finding a prospective scientific collaborator is a threecollaborator is a three--step processstep process

Step 1: Find out who is doing similar work

Step 2: Get an address

Step 3: Write and ask

Finding a prospective collaborator is a 3-step process:


Step 2: Get an address

Step 3: Write and ask


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Step 1: WhoStep 1: Who’’s doing similar work?s doing similar work?

Read the literature

Explore databases of funded projects

Review conference programs


• Check the technical literature:

• Journals, newsletters, etc.

1. Explore databases of funded projects

2. Review conference programs


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Use the same technicalUse the same technical--literature literature resources, but this time get authorsresources, but this time get authors’’names and affiliations names and affiliations

Journal articlesTechnical reportsePrint serversAbstract databasesDissertation databases

Anybody who published a technicalAnybody who published a technicalpaper is a prospective collaboratorpaper is a prospective collaborator——find someone whose work is mostfind someone whose work is mostclosely related to your ownclosely related to your own

Obtain authors’ names and affiliations from the following:1. Journal articles2. Technical reports3. ePrint servers4. Abstract databases5. Dissertation databases

Anybody who published a technical paper is a prospective collaborator—find someone whose work is most closely related to your own


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YouYou’’ve found an interesting paper, ve found an interesting paper, and the author might be a and the author might be a prospective collaboratorprospective collaborator

You’ve found an interesting paper and the author might be a prospective collaborator (See slide, ex. from Science Magazine)


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Type the authorType the author’’s name and s name and affiliation into Googleaffiliation into Google

Perform Google search with1. Author’s name2. Author’s affiliation


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Use the NSF database to find Use the NSF database to find prospective collaboratorsprospective collaboratorsGet PI names, titles, and affiliationsRead abstracts of funded projectsDifferentiate between currently funded

projects and completed projectsGo to http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/index.jsp

and type keywords into the “Search Award For:” field

Can also search on principal investigator’s name, if you alreadyhave a collaborator in mind

Use the NSF database to find potential collaborators in all branches of the physical, biological, social, and mathematical sciences and in engineering

1. Get PI names, titles, and affiliations2. Read abstracts of funded projects3. Differentiate between currently funded projects and completed projects4. Go to http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/index.jsp5. Type keywords into the “Search Award For” field

The U.S. National Science Foundation maintains a database of every project it has funded since the 1970s—and there are tens of thousands of such projects

Each project summary contains the name(s) and contact information of the investigator(s), the duration of the award (start and end date), and an abstract of the work.


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Searching for Searching for ““neutron starneutron star””

Type in keywords

Click “Search”

Can also search on PI name

•Type in keywords in the “Search Award For” field•You may also search for a specific scientist if you have a name. It is better to type in just the surname (last name) and leave the first name blank, because “George H. Atkinson” might be listed as “George” or “G.” or “G.H.”


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Congratulations! YouCongratulations! You’’ve found ve found 107 current projects107 current projects

Most NSF projects arefunded for three years

Ex. of hit listMost NSF projects are funded for three years; each project is given a unique seven-digit identifier. The first two digits of this number (shown in the left column on this page) are the last two digits of the year in which the grant was first awarded. Thus, #0653615 would have been first awarded in 2006 and will probably run through 2009 or 2010. Use the grant number to determine if a grant is current; i.e. the investigators are working on this problem now.


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The award summary gives The award summary gives information about the grantinformation about the grant

PI’s name, email, and institution

Award summary info about the grant provides 1. PI name2. Email3. institution


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Scroll down for the abstractScroll down for the abstract

Scroll down for abstract


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Conference programs are a source Conference programs are a source of prospective collaboratorsof prospective collaborators

American Astronomical Society conference calendarhttp://www.aas.org/meetings/

International Astronomy Meetings Listhttp://www2.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/meetings/

Check webpages of professional societies for “meetings”http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/astronomy_soc.html

Conference programs are also a source

1. Some websites maintain conference calendars

2. The University of Waterloo (Canada) maintains a list of international professional societies for all branches of science; http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/astronomy_soc.html is the list for astronomy and astrophysics.


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Using a conference program to Using a conference program to identify a prospective collaboratoridentify a prospective collaborator

1. Go to the University of Arizona homepagewww.arizona.edu

2. Find “Phonebook”

3. Type in “Lunine”

How to use a conference program to find a collaborator:Look for speakers or presenters


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Step 2: YouStep 2: You’’ve identified a ve identified a prospective collaborator, now prospective collaborator, now how do you find his address?how do you find his address?

Step 2: You’ve identified a prospective collaborator, now how do you find his address?


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Use the web to obtain email and Use the web to obtain email and postal addresses of collaboratorspostal addresses of collaborators

Most US universities and national labs have directories of the people who work there

Look for “Directories,” “Staff,” “Phone Book,” “Faculty” (at universities), “Employee Locator” (at national labs)

Type in the surname only of the person you wish to find

Directory of U.S. universitieshttp://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Use the Web!:1. Most US universities and national labs have directories of the people who work

there 2. Look for “Directories,” “Staff,” “Phone Book,” “Faculty” (at universities),

“Employee Locator” (at national labs)3. Type in the surname only of the person

you wish to find4. Directory of U.S. universities

http://www.google.com/options/universities.html


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URLs for US national labs are intuitiveURLs for US national labs are intuitiveLawrence Livermore National Laboratory

http://www.llnl.govOak Ridge National Laboratory

http://www.ornl.govBrookhaven National Laboratory

http://www.bnl.govArgonne National Laboratory

http://www.anl.govLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

http://www.lbl.govPacific Northwest National Laboratory

http://www.pnl.gov

URLs for U.S. National Labs are intuitive—they are composed of the first letters of the names followed by “dot” gov

1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratoryhttp://www.llnl.gov

2. Oak Ridge National Laboratoryhttp://www.ornl.gov

3. Brookhaven National Laboratoryhttp://www.bnl.gov

4. Argonne National Laboratoryhttp://www.anl.gov

5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratoryhttp://www.lbl.gov

6. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory7. http://www.pnl.gov


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Ex. of potential collaborator’s contact info from a natn’l lab


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Use the Use the ““directoriesdirectories”” to find peopleto find peopleat the national laboratoriesat the national laboratories

Find “Phone Book”

Submit “Query”

Use the natn’l labs’ “directories” to find people on staff


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Ex. of listing from a natn’l lab directory


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Use the science pages at the Use the science pages at the national labs, toonational labs, too

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Astrophysics Research Centerhttp://www.llnl.gov/urp/igpp/igpp-astro/

Use the science pages at the natn’l labs, too


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Step 3: YouStep 3: You’’ve identified a ve identified a possible collaborator and possible collaborator and found his address. Now what found his address. Now what do you say?do you say?

Stay tunedStay tuned……

Step 3: You’ve identified a possible collaborator and found his address. Now what do you say?Our next presentation will focus on this question.


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LetLet’’s review what wes review what we’’ve learnedve learned……How to use the NSF database to find

collaboratorsHow to use meeting programsHow to find contact information for

American scientists working at universities or the national laboratories

Review—we have discussed:1. How to use the NSF databases to find collaborators2. How to use meeting programs3. How to find contact information for American scientists working at universities

or the national laboratories4. Any Qs?

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