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Scientists have an increasing number of sources available for use when navigating the sea of information. What do you rely on as you develop expertise in your subject area? What do you see as trends for the future?

Please participate in the national information seeking behavior survey.

-- Go to the survey online
-- Survey will be open October 23-November 30, 2007
-- It will take about 10 minutes of your time
-- Complete the survey and then register for randomly drawn participant prizes

CSU is one of about 20 academic libraries supporting this national survey coordinated by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The CSU Libraries hope to use the results of this research behavior survey to better understand graduate students’ changing approaches to seeking out and using information.

Questions? Visit the CSU Libraries survey information or contact CSU PI, Allison Level: allison.level@colostate.edu | Ph.970.419.3918.

CSU participation is sponsored by the CSU Libraries. The national study is sponsored by the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Information & Library Science, the UNC Libraries, the Center for Genome Sciences, and the Institute for Renaissance Computing.

Posted by Allison Level at 02:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

CSU access to key scientific journals has been expanded with the addition of new collections in environmental sciences, energy, power, and other subject areas. Researchers may search via databases like Web of Science, then be seamlessly connected to full-text content of back-issues of many Science-Direct journals.

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, known as "the Alliance," consists of ten institutions representing twelve major libraries located in Colorado and Wyoming. The consortium has enabled CSU to purchase a wide array of electronic resources that CSU would not have otherwise been able to afford. This most recent purchase involved leveraging the monies each library had already spent on portions of backfile collections combined with a new monies provided by the University of Wyoming. Prior to this year, CSU had already purchased 22 of Elsevier's ScienceDirect journal backfile packages on its own. Now without CSU spending any additional funds, the deal helped expand access to backfile collections by 9 packages and includes 385 unique journal titles.

The newly added collections include:

* Energy and Power
* Environmental Sciences
* High Energy/Nuclear Physics and Astronomy
* The Lancet
* Materials Science
* Medicine and Dentistry
* Nursing and Health Professions
* Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
* Physics General

Some text for this posting is quoted from the CSU Libraries Website news about Science Direct Backfiles.

Posted by Allison Level at 01:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Thompson ISI Nobel Prize site is projecting possible winners of the Nobel Prize. Quoting the website, "Thomson Scientific has developed a list of likely winners in medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Those chosen are named Thomson Scientific Laureates — in recognition of the significant contribution their citations make to the navigation within the Web of Science".

How Citation Laureates are chosen http://scientific.thomson.com/nobel/essay/

Posted by Allison Level at 12:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)