Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research
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Item From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science: Interview with Eugene Garfield(Chandos Publishing/Elsevier, 2015-07) Baykoucheva, SvetlaWhen creating the Science Citation Index (SCI), Eugene Garfield could not have foreseen its enormous impact his innovative ideas would have on science in decades to come. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) he founded became a hotbed for developing new innovative information products that led to what we now know as Web of Science, Essential Science Indicators, and Journal Citation Reports. In his interview, Eugene Garfield talks about how he came to the idea of using citations to manage the scientific literature. He also shares his views on the (mis)use of the Journal Impact Factor in evaluating individual researchers’ work, the importance of ethical standards in scientific publishing, and the future of peer review and scholarly publishing.Item Integration of EndNote Online in information literacy instruction designed for small and large chemistry courses(American Chemical Society, 2015-12-21) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Houck, Joseph; White, NataliaThe blended model for information literacy instruction described in this article introduces students not only to efficient techniques for finding scientific literature and properties of chemical compounds, but also to managing this information with a bibliographic management program (EndNote Online). The model blends face-to-face instruction with online tutorials posted on a LibGuide page prepared for each course. A graded online assignment designed in SurveyMonkey was used to assess student learning. During the instruction, students learned to find literature in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, SciFinder, and Web of Science. They also searched for properties of chemical compounds in ChemSpider, PubChem, Reaxys, and SciFinder using a chemical name, molecular formula, CAS Registry Number, or by drawing a molecular structure. The results from the assignments showed that students learned how to find literature and chemical property information efficiently and use a bibliographic management program to store, organize, share, and cite references. This article presents the implementation of the model in two small (40–60 students) and one large (380–460 students) undergraduate chemistry courses. The information literacy instruction described in this article was carried out in more than 20 undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Maryland College Park. It provided more than 5000 students with versatile skills that they can use throughout their college education and even later in their professional life. The design of the model and its implementation was a result of a close collaboration between the chemistry librarian and the course instructors.Item Paving the road to more open access for chemistry: Interview with Bryan Vickery, Editorial Director of Chemistry Central(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2007) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem Virtual reality at the Royal Society of Chemistry: Interview with Nigel Lees(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2008) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem The Chemical Heritage Foundation-past, present, and future: Interview with Arnold Thackray(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2008) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem From the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS): Interview with Bonnie Lawlor(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2010) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem Talking about eScience, libraries, and other things: An interview with Andrea Twiss-Brooks(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2012) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem A new reality for academic chemistry librarians: An interview with Grace Baysinger(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2011) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem Comparison of the contributions of CAPLUS and MEDLINE to the performance of SciFinder in retrieving the drug literature(Association of College and Research Libraries * Science and Technology Section, 2011) Baykoucheva, SvetlaSciFinder (SF) is a platform that provides access to two large databases, the Chemical Abstracts database (CAPLUS) and MEDLINE. This article analyzes and compares the individual and combined contributions of these two databases to the performance of SF in retrieving the drug literature. Test searches in which the names of two individual drugs (lisinopril and lovastatin) and a group of drugs (SSRI antidepressants) were used as keywords retrieved document sets that were analyzed for total and annual literature output, document types, journal coverage, and language of publication. While the total literature output from CAPLUS was larger than the output from MEDLINE (which was attributed to the presence of patents), MEDLINE performed significantly better than CAPLUS in retrieving the non-patent literature. The overlap of documents between CAPLUS and MEDLINE was found to be only 20-24%, depending on the name of the drug used to perform the searches. This article analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of CAPLUS and MEDLINE and shows how these two databases, when searched together in SF, complement each other in covering the drug literature. In addition to the extended coverage of the literature, SF provides sophisticated (but easy-to-use) refining and analytical tools not available on some other platforms.Item Девата на Лангдок [The Lady of Languedoc](1986) Байкушева, Светла; Baykoucheva, SvetlaThe article is devoted to the history of Carcassonne, a fortified town in the South-West of France, and its connection to Bulgarian dualists(bogomils).