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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
Category: finding information
So there I was, try all kinds of librarian ninja tricks on the fanciest, most expensive research databases money can buy (SciFinder, Reaxys, Inspec...) and no joy. Couldn't find what I needed. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I don't...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:44 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: librarians
This is a session by Stephanie Willen Brown and Dorothea Salo . They started with a bunch of questions. About half the room was librarians, of the others split between affiliated with an institution and not. Where do you go...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 3:05 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
One of the great things about my interests overlapping computer science is that computer scientists believe in self archiving and making their work freely available on the web. The scientometric parts of IS are that way, too, but the L...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 8:49 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Cross-language information retrieval is an important research area with lots of activity. There are all kinds of elaborate algorithms and ways of doing it. There's a lot of domain specificity and connotation kind of things that have been really improved...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Some of these are better than others. Some don't have nice controlled vocabularies and are a bit wonky in the free version. Nearly all of them you can get through another interface for a fee if you need more precision...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 3:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Previously, I had a post about finding information in books using things like Google Book Search. This post talks about finding information on a topic, or more specifically, why you should start your search with a research database and more...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:55 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
I've talked about this a bit at sessions I taught at my library and also at Web Search University but it's still a favorite. Plus, you asked for posts on finding information. Oh, and one of the tools just released...
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