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Information Sources in Science and Technology

2013-10-22
Information Sources in Science and Technology

Author: C. C. Parker

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

ISBN: 9781483163024

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 336

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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.

Using Science and Technology Information Sources

1991
Using Science and Technology Information Sources

Author: Ellis Mount

Publisher: Greenwood

ISBN: UOM:39015019822678

Category: Database searching

Page: 208

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The authors describe the special characteristics of sci-tech print and nonprint information sources, and show how these sources can best serve the needs of both novice and experienced researchers. They also provide facts on types of sources, features to look for, relative costs, and intended audience. The range of needs these sources will be called upon to fill, from simple curiosity to professional research are explained. Included is a procedure for answering sci-tech reference questions followed by 12 of the most common information requests and how best to respond to them.

Information Sources of Political Science

2005
Information Sources of Political Science

Author: Stephen W. Green

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781576071045

Category: Political Science

Page: 619

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This comprehensive political bibliography offers 2500 entries covering a wide variety of source types: indexing and abstracting services, major bibliographical tools, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, handbooks, directories, statistical compilations and more.

One Hundred Years of Sci-Tech Libraries

2019-12-20
One Hundred Years of Sci-Tech Libraries

Author: Ellis Mount

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000758924

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 200

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This book, first published in 1988, celebrates the development of sci-tech libraries in honour of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first library school in the United States. The expert contributors provide a survey of the development of sci-tech libraries as well as some thoughts about their future. This comprehensive volume covers several types of sci-tech libraries, information retrieval, and library education. Library professionals will be fascinated but the journey of progress detailed in these well-written chapters.

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

1979-08-01
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Author: Allen Kent

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 082472027X

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 584

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"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

Top 100 Exotic Food Plants

2011-08-23
Top 100 Exotic Food Plants

Author: Ernest Small

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781439856888

Category: Science

Page: 708

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Many edible plants considered exotic in the Western world are actually quite mainstream in other cultures. While some of these plants are only encountered in ethnic food markets or during travels to foreign lands, many are now finding their way onto supermarket shelves. Top 100 Exotic Food Plants provides comprehensive coverage of tropical and semitropical food plants, reviewing scientific and technological information as well as their culinary uses. Wide-ranging in scope, this volume’s coverage includes plants that produce fruits, vegetables, spices, culinary herbs, nuts, and extracts. A user-friendly format enables readers to easily locate information on botanical and agricultural aspects, economic and social importance, food uses, storage, preparation, and potential toxicity. The book also contains an introductory chapter that reviews important historical, economic, geopolitical, health, environmental, and ethical considerations associated with exotic food plants. Thoroughly referenced with more than 2000 literature citations, this book is enhanced by more than 200 drawings, many chosen from historical art of extraordinary quality. This timely volume also highlights previously obscure edible plants that have recently become prominent as a result of sensationalistic media reports stemming from their inherently entertaining or socially controversial natures. Some of these plants include the acai berry, kava, hemp, and opium poppy. A scholarly yet accessible presentation, the book is filled with numerous memorable, fascinating, and humorous facts, making it an entertaining and stimulating read that will appeal to a broad audience.

Advances in the Science and Technology of Ocean Management

1992
Advances in the Science and Technology of Ocean Management

Author: Hance D. Smith

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780415038171

Category: Science

Page: 257

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This book reviews key developments in the field of marine science and technology and focuses on the long term issues - such as the disposal of industrial waste - that these developments raise.