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Project Bibliographies: Tracking the Expansion of Knowledge Using JPL Project Publications
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Coppin, Ann – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2016
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Library defines a project bibliography as a bibliography of publicly available publications relating to a specific JPL instrument or mission. These bibliographies may be used to share information between distant project team members, as part of the required Education and Public Outreach effort, or as part of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Libraries, Library Science, Librarians
Changing the Scholarly Sources Landscape with Geomorphology Undergraduate Students
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Blackburn, Heidi; Dere, Ashlee – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2016
Science is a core discipline in academia yet the focus of most undergraduate technical writing is generally on the data and results, not the literature review. The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) librarian and a new geology professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) collaborated to develop an information literacy…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, STEM Education, Librarians
Look beyond Textbooks: Information Literacy for First-Year Science Students
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Wong, Gabrielle K. W. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011
This paper describes classroom activities to help students understand the publication cycle and the characteristics of major publication channels (textbooks, books, encyclopedias, and periodicals) for first-year physics students. When designing these activities, the author considered the intellectual development characteristics and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks