Transcript Information Fluency and Graduate Education

Information Fluency and Graduate Education
Source: Physics in Perspective Volume II Part B
p. 1412 National Academy of Sciences, 1973
PHYSICS 584 FIND AND USE PHYSICS INFORMATION
1 Graduate Credit University of Buffalo
“In addition, a more systematic attempt to teach
graduate students how to use the review literature of
their field—and indeed, to use all bibliographic tools—
might be helpful.”
Introduction
Lifely Side of Physics, Biophysics and Biology.
Finding background/overview/review information
EndNote – Creating your own personal database of references
Engineering Village II (INSPEC, Compendex, NTIS)
Web of Science
SciFinder Scholar
Gray Literature (Patents, Tech Reports, Dissertations, Conference
Papers) –
Quiz One*** Spring Break – NO CLASS ***
Finding library books and full-text of journal articles, ILL and other
library services
Free Web beyond Google: Scirus, Google Scholar, Science.gov &
more
Searching for data, properties, and spectra I
Searching for data, properties, and spectra II & current awareness
–Quiz Two & Scholarly Communications: arXiv, preprints, open
access, & the world of publishing
Review & Final Remarks
When information fluency is helpful:
•Looking at potential research projects
•Writing an article
•Preparing for a poster session
•Writing the thesis
•General overview helpful anytime
Click http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/9481
here for resources
Pat Viele, Physics & Astronomy
Librarian, Cornell University
[email protected]