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Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Introduction to the Literature of Science and Technology | p. 1 |
Scientific and Technical Communication | p. 5 |
Professional Associations and Societies | p. 5 |
Historical Review | p. 6 |
The Research Information Cycle | p. 8 |
Information-Seeking Behaviors of Engineers and Scientists | p. 10 |
Journals | p. 15 |
Types of Journals | p. 16 |
Reviews | p. 18 |
Journal Publishers | p. 19 |
Proliferation of the Journal | p. 20 |
Budgeting for Journals | p. 25 |
Pricing Factors | p. 25 |
Review Sources | p. 26 |
Journal Bundling, Also Known as Aggregator Database | p. 30 |
JSTOR: A Hybrid Example of Journal Service | p. 31 |
Electronic Access vs. Traditional Access | p. 31 |
The Open Access Movement | p. 32 |
Institutional Repositories (IR) | p. 34 |
Why an IR? | p. 34 |
Specialized Databases | p. 41 |
The Database Selection Process | p. 44 |
General Sci-Tech Databases | p. 49 |
Current Awareness and Web 2.0 Tools | p. 53 |
Web 2.0 Tools | p. 55 |
RSS Feeds | p. 56 |
Blogging | p. 57 |
Wikis and Google Docs | p. 58 |
Publishers' Gateways (Nature Publishing) | p. 59 |
Conferences and Society Meetings and Directories | p. 63 |
Conferences and Society Meetings | p. 63 |
Directories | p. 69 |
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | p. 73 |
Dictionaries | p. 73 |
Encyclopedias | p. 81 |
Handbooks, Tables, and Manuals | p. 91 |
Handbooks | p. 91 |
Tables | p. 92 |
Manuals | p. 92 |
Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright | p. 97 |
Patents | p. 97 |
Why Search Patents? | p. 99 |
What Is a Patent? | p. 102 |
Types of Patents: Utility Patents, Design Patents, and Plant Patents | p. 103 |
Parts of a Patent | p. 106 |
The Seven Steps to Searching the Patent Literature | p. 107 |
Standards and Specifications | p. 125 |
More about Stakeholders | p. 129 |
Types of Standards and Their Elements | p. 129 |
Standards Collections | p. 132 |
Standards Education | p. 133 |
Grey Literature and Technical Reports | p. 137 |
Grey Literature | p. 137 |
Technical Reports | p. 139 |
Government-Sponsored Reports | p. 142 |
Privately Funded Reports | p. 142 |
Academia-Generated Research Reports | p. 143 |
Biographical Resources | p. 147 |
Biographies in Collected Works | p. 148 |
Biographical Information in Dictionaries | p. 154 |
Biographies in Encyclopedias | p. 154 |
Biographical Information in Festschriften | p. 154 |
Biographical Information in Journals and Newspapers | p. 154 |
Information in Membership Directories | p. 155 |
Individual and Collective Biographies of Scientists in Books | p. 155 |
Bibliographies of Biographical Information | p. 156 |
Appendix: Subject Bibliographies | p. 161 |
Anatomy and Physiology | p. 163 |
Astronomy | p. 166 |
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology | p. 170 |
Bioengineering | p. 173 |
Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering | p. 176 |
Botany | p. 179 |
Chemical Engineering | p. 182 |
Chemistry | p. 186 |
Civil Engineering | p. 192 |
Computer Science and Information Technology | p. 196 |
Electrical Engineering | p. 199 |
Environmental Engineering | p. 202 |
Environmental Science | p. 206 |
General Biology and Natural History | p. 211 |
General Engineering | p. 215 |
General Science | p. 219 |
Genetics, Developmental Biology, and Evolutionary Biology | p. 223 |
General Technology and Inventions | p. 227 |
Geology | p. 231 |
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology | p. 235 |
Industrial Engineering | p. 239 |
Mathematics | p. 242 |
Materials Science Engineering | p. 248 |
Mechanical Engineering | p. 252 |
Meteorology | p. 255 |
Microbiology | p. 258 |
Nutrition and Food Science | p. 261 |
Physics | p. 266 |
Zoology | p. 270 |
Index | p. 273 |
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