GREAT SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE WEB RESOURCES: A WHIRLWIND TOURMatthew Von Hendy MA/MLS

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SESSION GOALS

Discuss important science, technology, engineering and medicine web based tools

Touch on different information genres in this area (search, patents, data etc.)

Provide quick overviews and search tips for resources

Take a brief look at trends that are driving change in health and science information sources

Questions and answers

A FEW CONSIDERATIONS

Content will vary—everyone’s top STEM resources will be different

Excellent health and science subscription information resources---

Focus on this session will primarily be open access resources

Aimed at intermediate level researchers

THE WHIRLWIND TOUR STARTS NOW..

DIVING IN: BEST SOURCES FOR GETTING STARTED

SCIENCE DAILYHTTP://WWW.SCIENCEDAILY.COM/

For sciences and health sciences keeping with research and news is a huge challenge

Excellent resource—breakdown by headlines, topics, (take a look at ‘quirky’), updated often

For health sciences, many subscription resources, New England Journal of Medicine (NJEM), Lancet

Alternate: EurekAlert http://www.eurekalert.org/

SCIENCE SEARCH TOOLS

The Mediocre, the Bad and the Ugly (apologies to Clint Eastwood)

WORLDWIDESCIENCE.ORGHTTP://WORLDWIDESCIENCE.ORG/

State of science search—pretty sad—example of some of the best of existing tools (‘the mediocre’)

Serves as gateway for accessing international science agency websites and resources

Also has topical/keyword searching—decent results, clunky interface

Other government related science search tools:

SciTech Connect http://www.osti.gov/scitechScience Gov http://www.science.gov/scigov/

OPENAIREHTTPS://WWW.OPENAIRE.EU/SEARCH/FIND-PUBLICATIONS-DATA-PROJECTS Effort to increase European scientific open

access content Search includes publications, data &

datasets, some grey literature—mostly open access sources

Quality of search results varies Another European resource to watch: JURN (

http://www.jurn.org/) – originally humanities focus but rapidly increasing science and health science content

DATA & DATASETS

DRYAD HTTP://DATADRYAD.ORG/

Major repository service for data and datasets including items found in some peer-reviewed journals

Contents free to download, allow searching both by keyword and DOI (digital object identifiers)

Another excellent source: Databib http://databib.org/

PATENTS

PATENTS– PART ART, PART SCIENCE

Critical importance to entrepreneurs and businesses working in the medical, scientific and technical arenas

Excellent tools for researchers to look at…. But complexity, diversity of tools and legal

implications--searching part art, part science—perhaps leave it to experts

ESPACENETHTTP://WWW.EPO.ORG/SEARCHING/FREE/ESPACENET.HTML Great user-friendly resource from the

European Patent Office Covers over 80 million international patent

records dating back to 1836 International coverage is good except for

United States Patent and Trademark (USPTO) records

Look at ‘About Searching in Escapenet’ before starting--

WIPO PATENTSCOPEHTTP://PATENTSCOPE.WIPO.INT/SEARCH/EN/SEARCH.JSF

Excellent resource from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Offers coverage of some international patent offices not found in other resources

Coverage is spotty and not comprehensive for all countries

Many search options including simple data visualizations (charts and graphs)

MEASURING AND OTHER PROPERTY TOOLS

PHYSICAL REFERENCE DATA (NIST)HTTP://WWW.NIST.GOV/PML/DATA/

Many excellent authoritative on-line resources for lists of scientific measurement and other properties

One stop for official measurement maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physical Measurement Laboratory – online data organized by element

RCSB PROTEIN DATABANKHTTP://WWW.RCSB.ORG/PDB/HOME/HOME.DO

An information portal to biological macromolecular structures—covering more than 100,000 items

Searching options include PDB ID, molecule name and author name, organism, experiment method and x-ray resolution

Search results can also be used to visualize and analysis molecules

Maintained by Rutgers and UCSD (University of California-San Diego) with government funding

SPRINGER PROTOCOLSHTTP://WWW.SPRINGERPROTOCOLS.COM/ Online database of reproducible laboratory

protocols in the biomedical and life sciences Primarily a subscription based service (i.e.

you pay) but some free protocols are offered Well respected resource in this area

SUBJECT SPECIFIC RESOURCES

TECHXTRAHTTP://WWW.TECHXTRA.AC.UK/INDEX.HTML Robust information portal from UK

concentrating on engineering, mathematics and engineering

Decent search capability covering wide range of resources (primarily open access) including journal and grey literature resources

Worth exploring a search tool if you are interested only in these areas; use advanced search

SKYBRARYHTTP://WWW.SKYBRARY.AERO/INDEX.PHP/MAIN_PAGE

Electronic repository of safety knowledge related to aircraft operation and aviation safety

Wiki-style format with extensive quality control measures in place to maintain information quality

Listing of accidents/incidents, aircraft types, airport directory

ETDE WORLD ENERGY BASEHTTPS://WWW.ETDE.ORG/ETDEWEB/BASICSEARCH.JSP?PG=2

International collaboration effort between energy agencies and IEA—

Excellent place to search for international energy related grey literature and citations

Transitioning to worldwideenergy.org Worldwideenergy.org beta phase—promises

to offer additional searching capabilities

MINDATHTTP://WWW.MINDAT.ORG/

Largest and most visited mineralogy website Clunky looking interface but packed with

information and resources Search options include mineral, rock or gem

name, location, keyword and photo, mineral structure

Discussion boards, mineralogy news

REVISITING OLD FAVORITES

ARXIV.ORGHTTP://ARXIV.ORG/

Maintained by Cornell University – one of the longest operating e-prints services

Provides open access and searching to almost one million e-prints in the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and quantitative finance and statistics

E-prints mainly of journal articles and conference papers—although some other grey literature sources

PUBMED-NCBIHTTP://WWW.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV/PUBMED

Well-known excellent open access biomedical resource—maintained by the US National Library of Medicine

Complex tool—many people don’t realize it’s full searching capability or make use of tools

MeSH database or Protein Cluster, Single Citation Matcher

NCBI—allows you to create personal account, search & save results –can be used anywhere there is an Internet connection

ASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEMHTTP://ADSWWW.HARVARD.EDU/

Major resource in area of astronomy, astrophysics and physics–

Includes 3 major bibliographic databases including ArXiv.org containing almost 11 million records

WHAT ABOUT SCITECH GREY LITERATURE?

NY ACADEMY OF MEDICINE GREY LITERATURE REPORTHTTP://WWW.GREYLIT.ORG/

Grey literature critical component of health sciences (included as part of systematic reviews) and scientific research

Can be hard to find and not often indexed NY Academy of Medicine GreyLit Report—well

known and respected in public health arena See ‘50 Shades of Scientific and Technical

Grey Literature’ - http://bit.ly/1kM7e3a

MISCELLANEOUS

THE GEOSCIENCES: SELECTED WEB RESOURCESHTTP://WWW.ISTL.ORG/11-SPRING/INTERNET.HTML

Scientific concepts and technical terms can be hard for non-scientists to understand and vary by field

Excellent guides have been created—great way for researchers to ‘get up to speed’

Representative example developed by Linda Zellmer at Western Illinois University

GLOBAL VOLCANISM PROGRAMHTTP://WWW.VOLCANO.SI.EDU/

Portal for volcano information maintained by the Smithsonian Institution and recognized for its excellence

Resources include a volcano database, activity log and photo galleries

DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER (DTIC)HTTP://WWW.DTIC.MIL/DTIC/

Some scientific and technical information can be found in places that researchers tend to overlook

Department of Defense (DOD) funds a lot of science-related work from nanotechnology to human performance

DTIC gathers the publicly available DOD sponsored research–

Search tip: start by looking at “Search Technical Reports”

FUTURE

JOVE HTTP://WWW.JOVE.COM/

What might the future of science information and resources look like?

JOVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments)– first peer-reviewed scientific video journal—published since 2006

Subscription resource—covers wide range of biology, chemistry and environmental sciences

SMART FOAM (APP)HTTP://WWW.ICLINICALAPPS.COM/#!SMARTFOAM/C1QYD

Just one example of efforts to incorporate high quality scientific research in mobile format

Aims to collate free online medical information for everyone---how good is the information?

Scientific information will be moving from mobile to other forms (wearables?) sooner than we can guess

CHAIN REDSHTTPS://WWW.CHAIN-PROJECT.EU/

Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures for Research and Education Data Sharing

Effort sponsored by the European Commission to build scientific information sharing platform that cuts across national boundaries—

Development of virtual research communities

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