Mining GALILEO in the Sciences

Teri M. Vogel Georgia State University October 23, 2003

*modified 11/9/2003

Contact Information:

Georgia State University Library 404.463.9933 100 Decatur Street SE, MSC 8E0705 404.651.4315 (fax) Atlanta, GA 30303-3202 [email protected]

This handout accompanied my 2003 COMO presentation. All materials can be accessed from http://www.library.gsu.edu/people/tvogel/

Objectives: · Identify the GALILEO resources for the physical and life sciences. · Identify the most appropriate science resources in GALILEO for elementary, middle/junior and high school audiences, as well as the most comprehensive science resources for any audience. · Examine science coverage in GALILEO by identifying the major journals in two science disciplines and comparing them against the database title lists to determine how thoroughly the disciplines are covered. · To explore science resources on the Internet · Government websites · Science Fair resources

Teri M. Vogel, Mining Galileo in the Sciences.doc, 11/9/03 · Science-specific directories and search engines · Discuss ways that non-science librarians can meet science information needs of their patrons · “Teri’s Tour of Science Websites”

Levels of Science Information Needs

· Elementary (K-5) · Middle/Junior (6-8) · High School (9-12) · Technical School · General Public

· assignments and reports · science fair projects · research

Science Resources for Elementary (K-5) School Students [browse vs. search] · SIRS Discoverer K12/PLS -World Almanac & Encyclopedia -Newspaper articles, Science Weekly, Current Science, National Geographic Kids, Ranger Rick, NASA Kids · Searchasaurus – Primary/Elementary Search K12/PLS/DTAE Current Science, National Geographic World, National Geographic Kids, Ranger Rick, Scienceworld, Scienceland · Encyclopedia of Animals K12/PLS/DTAE · Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia K12/PLS/DTAE

Science Resources for Middle/Junior High (6-8) School Students · SIRS Researcher PLS – use ‘search’ instead of ‘browse’ -Newspapers, Science News, Popular Science, Technology Review, Physics World, Discover, National Geographic, World Almanac · Searchasaurus – Middle Search Plus K12/PLS/DTAE -Astronomy, Audubon, Discover, E Magazine, International Wildlife, National Wildlife, National Geographic, Popular Mechanics and Popular Science, Sierra, Smithsonian, Time and Newsweek · AccessScience PLS/DTAE – McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology -Search/browse entries, biographies, student learning resources · Encyclopedia Britannica PLS · Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia K12/PLS/DTAE

Science Resources for High School Students · MAS Ultra K12/PLS/DTAE -500 journals, including Bioscience, Geological Magazine, FDA Consumer, Journal of Geometry, New Scientist, Scientific American, Physics Today and Science · MasterFile Premier K12/PLS/DTAE -2700 journals; science content comparable to MAS Ultra, + Biological Bulletin, Nature, Geographical Journal

· Platinum Periodicals PLS/DTAE – more scholarly, science content -2000 journals; Scientific American, New Scientist as well as Science, Nature, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), some Annual Reviews titles, some IEEE titles, some American Society of Microbiology titles, American Journal of Physics, American Journal of Botany, Journal of Paleontology, Journal of the Geological Society, Analytical Chemistry, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Trends in the Neurosciences · AccessScience PLS/DTAE · Encyclopedia Britannica PLS

High School & Beyond: Advanced and Science-Specific Databases · Academic Search Premier K12/PLS/DTAE -3800 journals indexed/abstracted; 3200 journals FT -Platinum collection, plus: · American Chemical Society, American Mathematical Society, American Institute of Physics, Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics, Association of Computing Machinery, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) · Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Wiley, Blackwell, CRC, University of Chicago, Oxford and Cambridge University Presses · Computer Source K12/PLS/DTAE -120 computing titles

· FirstSearch · General Science Index PLS · Biology Digest PLS · Biological & Agricultural Index PLS · Basic BIOSIS PLS -subset of BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts) · Applied Science & Technology Index PLS -723 titles – aeronautics, engineering, computer science, geology, physics, textiles, food technology · GEOBASE PLS -2060 titles – core database for geology, geography, ecology and environmental science

· ArticleFirst PLS/DTAE -12,000 journals indexed; 12.7 million citations -no abstracts or subject headings; main access point is article title -cannot limit by language

· WorldCat PLS/DATE -search for books held by other libraries

· MEDLINE K12/PLS/DTAE -12 million citations, +4000 journals – core database for biomedicine and related life, behavioral and chemical sciences -search ‘related words’ to access MeSH (medical subject heading) indexing

· AGRICOLA *no longer available to K12/PLS/DTAE communities, but freely accessible via National Agricultural Library [http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/] -2.5 million citations, 870 journals – core database for agriculture and related sciences

Database Evaluation – What Is Being Indexed? · Scholarly, multidisciplinary journals · Science, Nature, PNAS · General, multidisciplinary magazines · Scientific American, Discover, Sierra, etc. · Major journals relevant to the discipline · ISI resources Science Citation Index title list access at http://www.isinet.com/isi/journals/ Sci-Bytes: What’s New in Research http://www.in-cites.com/research/2003/index.html · Scientific societies American Chemical Society http://www.chemistry.org/ American Mathematical Society http://www.ams.org/ · Science librarians Chemistry http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html Physics, Astronomy, Math http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/ Biology http://www.sla.org/division/dbio/ Geology http://www.geoinfo.org/

· Astronomy journals (see spreadsheet)

· Microbiology journals (see spreadsheet)

Tools for Locating Science Information on Government Websites · Science.gov http://www.science.gov/ · SciTechResources.gov http://www.scitechresources.gov/

· Federal Agencies · USGS http://www.usgs.gov/ · NOAA http://www.noaa.gov/ · NASA/JPL http://www.nasa.gov, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ · CDC http://www.cdc.gov · USDA http://www.usda.gov/

· EPA http://www.epa.gov/ · DOE http://www.energy.gov/

· State · Georgia Environmental Protection Division http://www.dnr.state.ga.us/dnr/environ/ · Georgia Cooperative Extension Service http://www.ces.uga.edu/

· International · WHO http://www.who.int/en/ · FAO http://www.fao.org/

Web Resources for Science Fair Projects · Science Fair Central http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/ · The Ultimate Science Fair Resource http://www.scifair.org/ · Georgia Science & Engineering Fair http://www.uga.edu/oasp/gsef/gsef.html · Science Fair Project Index http://www.columbuslibrary.org/cmlscif/browse2.cfm · Database of science projects in their print collection; search/browse topics and keyword searchable · Analogous to an online version of Science Experiments Index for Young People · “.Gov’s” – federal agencies have a “Kids” or K-12 page · Energy Science Projects (DOE) http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/cc/index.html · Science Fair Ideas (Earthquake Hazards Program – USGS) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/sciencefair.html · AgScience Projects (Agricultural Research Service – USDA) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

Science Directories & Search Engines (Google alternatives) · NDSL Scout Reports access at http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ · InfoMine http://infomine.ucr.edu/ · EEVL http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ · BiologyBrowser http://www.biologybrowser.org/ · BIOME http://biome.ac.uk/ · Scirus http://www.scirus.org/

K-12 Science Directories · FirstGov for Kids http://www.kids.gov/ · KidsClick! http://www.kidsclick.org/ · Internet Public Library – KidSpace http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ · MeL Internet http://mel.org/melindex.html

Keeping Current in the Sciences · News – Science, Nature, New York Times, Scientific American · Documentaries – Nova, Discovery, National Geographic · Best American Science Writing / Best American Science & Nature Writing

Partnering with Science Librarians · State, regional and research universities – Georgia and neighbors · Working with their librarians to facilitate your patrons’ use of those libraries · What resources are available? databases, print and e-journals · What services are available? copying/printing, reference assistance, instruction in using the resources

Teri’s Science Picks · Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ -Collection of annotated astronomy images going back to 1995

· ChemFinder http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/ -Largest collection of chemical property data free on the Web (75,000 compounds) -Search engine accessing 350 databases on property data, health and regulatory information, etc.

· PLANTS Database http://plants.usda.gov/ -Standardized information on vascular and non-vascular plants of the US -Distribution, images, references, crop information and external links -Specialized data reports: alternate crops, culturally significant plants, threatened and endangered species

· Integrated Taxonomic Information System http://www.itis.usda.gov/index.html -Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi and microbes -Can do a keyword search across all common and scientific names (will search fragments of names), including names that are no longer valid -Each record has the hyperlinked taxonomic hierarchy from kingdom to species, as well as a link to images via Google

· Center for the History of Physics http://www.aip.org/history/ -Emilio Segre archives: searchable collection 4800 photographs, primarily of US physicists and astronomers -Exhibit Hall: online exhibits related to the history of physics

· Invasivespecies.gov http://www.invasivespecies.gov/ -US government’s gateway to information on invasive species, with pages for each animal, plant and microbe -Links to news, laws and regulations, regional resources and databases on invasive species

· NASA Astrophysical Data System http://adswww.harvard.edu/ -Search 4 bibliographic databases: astronomy & astrophysics, instrumentation, physics & geophysics, ArXiv preprints (+3 million citations) -Browse articles from scanned journals, proceedings, bulletins and observatory publications in astronomy and astrophysics. Coverage is typically from the first issue up to 1-5 years ago

· CORIS – Coral Reef Information System http://www.coris.noaa.gov/ -NOAA’s gateway to all of their coral reef research and activities -“About Coral Reefs” includes sections on biology, disease and threats -Extensive library of publications, links to other coral reef organizations

· Microbe.org / MicrobeWorld.org http://www.microbe.org/ http://www.microbeworld.org -American Society for Microbiology’s sites for K-12 audiences (Microbe.org skewed for a younger audience) -Essays on topics of interest, current news, careers, activities

· Earthquake Hazards Program http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ -Information on recent earthquakes as well as past and historical earthquakes -Earthquake Search to search for quakes from 2150 BC to date by selecting one of the comprehensive or regional databases and limiting to specific criteria like date or magnitude

· WAICENT – World Agricultural Information Centre Portal http://www.fao.org/waicent/ -Directory of content available on the Food & Agriculture Organization’s website

· The Periodic Table of Comic Books http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/ -Where have elements been cited in the [comic book] literature?