Suchergebnisse - "Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship"

Scanning library literature, we found that there were few studies on how online library subject guides were used. One reason may be because librarians have only recently begun to publish their subject guides online. With the start of the new millennium, agriculture librarians, like others, dynamica...

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Two science branch libraries at Penn State's University Park campus hosted film series centered on scientific documentary films. Although the reasons for starting the series differ, both have been successful in meeting their goals. Patron responses have been favorable, and the series have focu...

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This paper describes "Follow the Silk Road...to the Science Library," a successful orientation event held at Brill Science Library, Miami University, Oxford Ohio. The program combined many important ingredients, including information literacy, outreach, collaboration, and university-wide...

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In this paper we examine practical applications of the Archipelago Commons software for science and technology libraries through the lens of a pilot project conducted within the Libraries at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2021. This pilot project uses Archipelago for data curation, demonstrate...

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The article reviews the chemistry information web site Reaxys.

This article reviews The Electronic Journal of Oncology, a non-profit, exclusively Internet-based journal containing original publications in the fields of oncology and hematology, freely accessible to physicians, paramedics and researchers having an interest in cancer. It contains peer reviewed or...

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The development of the Internet as a means for mass communication affords scientists an opportunity to re-evaluate the way they communicate scientific results. The computer is no longer just a way for preparing a conventional print article but is an electronic publication medium in its own right. I...

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This guide to materials sciences resources includes reference tools and educational resources related to materials that are freely available on the Internet and do not require subscription or registration on the part of individual researchers to access them. Most of these resources were created by...

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The author reflects on the need for librarians to promote geospatial information literacy and outreach in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) environment. She argues that geospatial information literacy combined with campus-wide outreach will help educate the faculty, staff and students on using...

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Earth Day 2000 is time to study what is being done in libraries to promote the well-being of the environment. In March 2000, sixty-five STS-L Listserv subscribers responded to a survey asking about environmental policies and committees, individual and institutional attitudes and behavior related to...

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In response to a hypothesis that researchers who no longer use print journals may miss out on the serendipitous benefits of "poor indexing" provided by print tables of contents, librarians at the University of Florida surveyed their engineering faculty to determine faculty use of tables o...

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This research explores the perspectives and practices of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Canadian Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) academic librarianship. Research data were collected from Canadian STEM librarians through an online survey and one-on-one interviews....

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The article reviews the book "The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction," edited by Claude Ghaoui.

It can be an enormous undertaking to obtain spectral information from a number of different analytical instruments, present it in a digital format and archive the data. Sadtler Research Laboratories has been producing quality spectral information for the analytical laboratory since 1947. The histor...

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Reviews the Google Scholar Internet search engine from Google.