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John Dupuis |
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Steacie Science Library |
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Definitions? |
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Objectives & Assumptions |
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Types of documents |
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STM disciplines & finding information |
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Demo |
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Science? |
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Technology? |
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Medicine? |
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To write about STM for a non-specialist audience |
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Newspapers |
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Trade magazines |
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Popular science magazines |
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General interest magazines |
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Internal organizational publications |
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We are not writing as specialists ourselves |
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What is peer review |
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What is an invisible college |
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What is a gatekeeper |
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Primary? |
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Secondary? |
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Tertiary? |
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Grey? |
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Usually peer reviewed |
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Commercial or society publishers |
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Most common form of scholarly communication |
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Nature |
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A meeting where scientists present their results
to each other, usually via PowerPoint |
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Usually not peer reviewed |
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Important for invisible college &
gatekeepers |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Usually published by an institution, such as a
lab or academic department |
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Usually online |
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Not peer reviewed |
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York CS department |
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Register your idea with the Government so no one
else can use it |
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Reviewed by Government agency to make sure claim
is authentic |
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Commercial research is often not made public any
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USPTO |
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Recommended procedures for accomplishing a
certain task |
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Usually created by a society or a dedicated
organization |
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Canadian organization is CSA |
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IEEE Standards – 802.11 |
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Rough draft version of a journal or conference
paper |
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Not peer reviewed – author wants input |
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arxiv |
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Monographs |
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Encyclopedias |
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Handbooks |
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Text books |
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Usually website of scholars at universities or
research institutes |
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Not peer reviewed per se, but may contain text
of scholar’s articles |
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Wolfgang Stürzlinger from York CS |
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Runs the gamut… |
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Usually not peer reviewed |
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Could be put up by anyone |
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Watch for sites sponsored by governments or
respected institutions… |
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Medline Plus |
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Usually at conferences |
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Usually not peer reviewed |
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Often scientists giving a update on work in
progress |
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Literally a poster or series of sheets |
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Stand around & get input |
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One of mine |
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http://www.yorku.ca/jdupuis/asee2002/ |
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News Conference |
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Press release |
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Magazine article |
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Newspaper article |
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TV show |
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Documentary |
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Go through one by one & discuss how they use
documents to communicate |
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E-Prints & Pre-Prints very important |
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Very good at using the Net – it was physicists
that invented the Web |
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Mostly journals & conferences |
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Very good at freely sharing information |
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Mostly journals & conferences |
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Simulations are very important |
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Journals are most important |
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Chemistry generates a lot of patents |
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Journals are very important |
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Starting to generate a lot of patents |
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Conferences are most important for cutting edge
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Technical reports are very important |
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Journals and Conferences are most important |
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Technical reports are next in importance |
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Patents are very important |
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Journals are the most widely used method |
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Starting to get into e-prints |
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Journals are most important |
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Conferences are secondary |
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Recent developments in breast cancer research |
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Pubmed |
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Medline Plus |
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Newspapers |
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Expanded Academic |
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Computer viruses |
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Computer Database |
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Gartner Advisory |
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ABI/Inform |
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IEEE / ACM Digital Libraries |
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http://www.yorku.ca/jdupuis/writ2300/ |
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jdupuis@yorku.ca |
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