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Onsite Reference and Instruction Services: Setting Up Shop Where Our Patrons Live
(American Library Association, 2007)
Electronic, full-text resources and online forms have become ever more established in most ibraries. As a result, foot traffic has significantly decreased, leading to fewer opportunities for personal contact between ...
On-Site Reference Services and Outreach: Setting Up Shop Where Our Patrons Live
(2004-06-08)
Electronic, full-text resources and on-line forms have become ever more established in
most organizations. As a result, foot traffic in libraries has significantly decreased leading to
fewer opportunities for personal ...
Searching Coordination and Organometallic Compounds in SciFinder
(Association of College and Research Libraries/Science and Technology Section, 2011)
The primary goal of this article is to assist researchers and librarians to accurately and completely search Chemical Abstracts Service's (CAS) SciFinder web-based system for coordination compounds including organometallics. ...
Searching Inorganic Substances in SciFinder
(Association of College and Research Libraries/Science and Technology Section, 2011)
The primary goal of this article is to assist researchers and librarians to accurately and completely search Chemical Abstracts Service's (CAS) SciFinder web-based system for inorganic substances, excepting coordination ...
Managing Tradeoffs in the Electronic Age
(Wiley, 2003-10)
An overview of the development of electronic resources over the past three decades is provided, discussing key features, disadvantages, and benefits of traditional online databases and CD-ROM and Web-based resources. This ...
Author Identification Systems [Tips from the Experts]
(Association of College and Research Libraries/Science and Technology Section, 2009)
Many efforts are currently underway to disambiguate author names and assign unique identification numbers so that publications by a given scholar can be reliably grouped together. This paper reviews a number of operational ...
Mining Technical Resources for Business Information
(Routledge, 2009)
Business librarians can benefit from a deeper understanding of science and engineering resources, especially when researching technological topics, products, or industries. The authors introduce a variety of technical ...
Finding Physical Properties of Chemicals: A Practical Guide for Scientists, Engineers, and Librarians
(Routledge, 2001)
Free Internet resources that provide a significant amount of physical property information are critically reviewed. These free Web sites cannot totally replace classic print sources and online subscription databases. ...
SciFinder Scholar 2006: An Empirical Analysis of Research Topic Query Processing
(American Chemical Society, 2006-03)
Topical search queries in SciFinder Scholar are processed through an extensive set of natural language processing algorithms that greatly enhance the relevance and comprehensiveness of the search results. Little detailed ...
A&I, full text, and open access: prophecy from the trenches.
(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2009-01-09)
This invited essay predicts the demise of most traditional abstracting and indexing services, i.e. finding tools. Free finding tools continue to improve and gain significant mind share among library patrons. Library budgets ...