Kết quả tìm kiếm - Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

The STS Section is sponsoring a Preconference before the ALA Annual Meeting. This Preconference is designed for academic librarians who serve at general reference desks at community colleges, colleges, or universities and who do not have formal training in science bibliography. This Preconference m...

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Our research examined the use of supplementary materials in six environmental science disciplines: atmospheric sciences, biology, fisheries, forestry, geology, and plant sciences. Ten key journals were selected from each of these disciplines and the number of supplementary materials, such as data f...

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Access to international resources is always challenging. This project measures the availability of international journals in the plant sciences in libraries in the United States. The availability of 189 journals was evaluated by searching WorldCat. The analysis showed that 55% of the titles were he...

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Penfield Library at the State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego) has a gallery exhibit space near the front entrance that is used to showcase student-faculty research and art class projects. This article features the library's outreach efforts to science faculty and students throug...

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The article reviews the book "2030: Technology That Will Change the World," by Rutger van Santen, Djan Khoe and Bram Vermeer.

This multi-part bibliographic essay identifies the most relevant issues about the publishing of scholarly electronic journals: Access, Cataloging and Indexing, Pricing, Archiving, and Licensing. Each of these issues merits careful consideration in its own right; however, as these essays demonstrate...

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In this article, the process and results of a literature search using a new proposed scientific literature search tool (ToS: Tree of Science) aimed at partially overcoming the need to search in different databases was used. In its present form, ToS needs, as input, a previous search in the Web of S...

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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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The purpose of this project is to identify trends in the design and content of home pages for web sites of Science-Engineering Libraries. Forty-five web sites from universities in the USA and Canada are chosen and their design characteristics and hypertext links analyzed. In addition, full-text jou...

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The article describes how the collections of the Middleton Health Sciences Library, the Powers Pharmacy Library and the Weston Clinical Sciences Center Library were merged and moved into the Health Sciences Learning Center as the Ebling Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The planning a...

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The number of systematic reviews (SRs) published continues to grow, and the methodology of evidence synthesis has been adopted in many fields outside of its traditional health sciences origins. SRs are now published in fields as wide ranging as business, environmental science, education, and engine...

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Selection of web-based resources affects every division of the academic library. Collection policies are changing to reflect the complex array of criteria and issues driving selection decisions. I propose to present a new form of collection policy -- the genre statement -- designed to aid the libra...

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Adding scientific literacy to the skill set of permanent non-science and part-time adjunct librarians became a major focus of a staff development program at San Jose State University Library. The Library's one reference desk is busy, and librarians field questions from all disciplines. Changin...

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Academic librarians do not engage with all disciplinary departments equally. Despite equal or even greater efforts, some departments are less responsive to librarian outreach. One such department is mathematics. To understand mathematics departments’ relationships with their academic librarians, th...

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Few libraries have remained unaffected by the serials pricing crisis of the past several years. The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library has conducted five serials cancellations projects since 1987 -- 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, and 1996. Each round of cancellations cut closer to the...

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Science librarians, as well as other librarians, have seen ample new technologies come and go over the years. Librarians experiment and try to find ways to employ the new tools in our libraries. A driving force in our decision making about what tools to use should always be our patrons and whether...

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