Information Sources in Science and Technology

Information Sources in Science and Technology
Author: C. C. Parker
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483163024

Information Sources in Science and Technology: A Practical Guide to Traditional and Online Use presents a selection of traditional and online methods of using information sources in science and technology, including people, organizations, literature, hosts, and databases. This text serves as a reference book that helps the reader choose sources of information and their guides, includes a routine for finding and using information, and offers tips on searching and obtaining literature in a usable form. This book is comprised of nine chapters and begins by explaining how to choose type(s) of information source that is likely to be most helpful. The chapters that follow present guides on people, organizations, and literature as sources of information. A chapter on information services focuses on those organizations that supply information or references to information that could be helpful. These services range from answering telephone queries to supplying collections of relevant documents, and from broadcast television information to direct connection with computer databases. The next chapters discuss ways of searching the literature and computer databases, obtaining literature in a usable form, and organizing and presenting information. This book concludes by considering current awareness or keeping up-to-date with information about recent developments. This monograph is intended for librarians and information officers, especially for those working in scientific or industrial environments, practicing scientists and engineers, and students associated with these professions.

Scientific and Technical Information Resources

Scientific and Technical Information Resources
Author: Krishina Subramanyam
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000147606

This book focuses on current practices in scientific and technical communication, historical aspects, and characteristics and bibliographic control of various forms of scientific and technical literature. It integrates the inventory approach for scientific and technical communication.

Current Catalog

Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1122
Release: 1979
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.

British University Observatories, 1772-1939

British University Observatories, 1772-1939
Author: Roger Hutchins
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780754632504

This is the first full history of the six university observatories that undertook research before World War II - Oxford, Dunsink, Cambridge, Durham, Glasgow and London - and their struggle to evolve in the middle ground between the royal or government observatories, and those of the 'Grand Amateurs'. The book will intrigue anyone interested in the history of astronomy, of telescopes, of patronage networks, of scientific institutions, and of the history of universities.