Information Fluency and Graduate Education

1. Information Fluency and Graduate Education Source: Physics in Perspective Volume II Part B p. 1412 National Academy of Sciences, 1973 “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.” PHYSICS 584 FIND AND USE PHYSICS INFORMATION 1 Graduate Credit University of Buffalo 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 Pat Viele, Physics & Astronomy Librarian, Cornell University ptv1@cornell.edu Click http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/9481 here for resources