Science and Engineering Resources:
Biological and Life Sciences
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
April 6, 2010
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
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
The assignment due April 20
Hand out the assignment for chemistry information.
Quote from Information Needs in the
Sciences
Joe says some stuff here.
More about terminology
ATM
Zebra muscles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7969902@N07/510672745/
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
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
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