This document provides an introduction and overview for a science and engineering resources class. It discusses the instructor's background, learning objectives for the class, assigned readings for the first week, guidelines for assignments, and an overview of topics to be covered throughout the course including the scientific process, scholarly communication trends, and resources for science information including dictionaries, journals, databases, and the open web. Copyright and developing an online identity are also briefly covered.

1. Science and Engineering Resources:
Introduction
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Associate Professor
Science and Engineering Reference Librarian
March 23, 2010

2. Welcome and Introductions
 My background
 Provide some information about the Sci-Tech LIS
class I took, way back in 1994.
 Why am I teaching this course?
 At what level will this be taught?
 Who are you?
 What is your background?
 What do you want to learn in the class?
 Look at the syllabus

3.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmavanhecke/3546512338/

4. The assigned readings
 Read to understand the gist of the articles. Try to
understand the core concepts. Why the heck did I assign
that reading?
 There is no need to memorize the minutiae, but you still
need to read more than just the abstract.
 I will try to have everything available through Bb, but
some things might only be available on print reserve.

5. The assigned readings
 For next week
 The Face of 21st Century Physical Science Librarianship,
Science & Technology Libraries, Volume 26, Issue 2 December
2005, pages 71-90, Lina Ortega and Cecelia M.
Brown. ortega.pdf is also in Blackboard.
 The education and training needs of health librarians—the
generalist versus specialist dilemma, Tatjana Petrinic and
Christine Urquhart, Health Information & Libraries Journal,
Volume 24 Issue 3, Pages 167-176.
 Subject Knowledge in the Health Sciences Library, J Med Libr
Assoc. 2005 October; 93(4): 459–466.
 Digital Libraries and Multi-Disciplinary Research Skills
Please read the intro and the section dealing with scholarly
communication.

6. The assignments
 There will be some ―negative‖ answers.
 We won’t have print/electronic access to some of the answers.
Don’t spend forever trying to find something that doesn’t exist
or we have no direct access.
 With some patrons, they might want a comprehensive search
on a specific topic to find nothing. (Dissertation or
patentability)
 Combination of print and electronic resources.
 The first assignment will be about 70/30. The following
weeks are about 50/50.

7. More about the assignments
 Please put the print reference materials back on the shelf
after use, and log out of the electronic databases when
you are done (if possible).
 Cut-n-paste is ok, or have good hand writing.
 I'd like to know the title of the source used, the volume
number and the page number(s) used. [I don’t need an
annotation.]
 Please use the given sources. Wikipedia is not an answer
for the assignments.

8. Collaborative Project
 What do you want to use?
 Blog
 Wiki
 Other service?
 Twitter hashtag #lis4375
 What are the guidelines? (Find something interesting to
share -- one post or comment per week.)
 Opt-out is ok.

9. Brief History of Scientific Communication
 Pre 1700’s
 Books
 Letters back and forth
 First English language scientific Journal from1665. Henry
Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society of London,
launched the Philosophical Transactions.

10. Scientific Process -- Evidence
 http://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio372/class/behavior/sciproc.htm

11. Flow of Scientific Information
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/grad/researchskills/flow_of_info.html

12.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmavanhecke/3546512338/

13. STM Serials Crisis
 What is this?
 http://www.arl.org/sc/
 http://libguides.du.edu/scoa
 Nature is an example (http://tinyurl.com/5gqghc and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29)
 Comptes Rendus
(http://library.caltech.edu/collections/rpb/chemistry/ComptesR
endus.pdf)

14. General Science Resources
 Dictionaries
 Encyclopedias
 Handbooks
 Directories
 A&I Services
 Journals

15. A&I Services
 Web of Science Demo
 JCR – Impact factors demo

16. Open Access Journals
 What is it?
 Different flavors
 http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/ASO-LIBER-2004.htm
 Overview from Peter Suber
 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

17. Web
 Google and Google Scholar
 Science.gov (and all of the other gov agencies, EPA, USGS,
NASA, etc.)
 ePrint server www.arxiv.org
 CiteSeer citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis
 Scirus www.scirus.com
 Scitation www.scitation.com

18. Web 2.0
 Social Sites such as Facebook, Ning
 Blogs and Wikis
 Delicious
 Feed services
 Slideshare
 Images and Videos
 Twitter
 The backchannel
 http://bit.ly/9UQyDP

19. STOP!
Where are you going
with that image?
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/2880982738/

20. Yes
I am going to talk about…
Copyright.
 D. Sharon Pruitt http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3561662932/in/set-72157610551917961/

21. Copyright, Copyleft and Fair Use
 Creative Commons
 http://creativecommons.org/ and http://sciencecommons.org/
 http://mollykleinman.com/2010/03/18/cc-and-wedding-photos/
 http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/ video.
 ―Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving‖
 http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
 http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
 http://www.librarycopyright.net/fairuse/
 Also http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/index.htm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
 Flickr Commons and reuse
 Mashups –
 http://www.lessig.org/ and http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/
 Thanks to http://ff.im/hGPEu

22. Create an Online Identity
 http://rogersurbanek.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/iolug-
speakers-notes-on-online-identity/
 http://rogersurbanek.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/online-
identity-iolug.pdf
 http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/your-
virtual-brand