Jeffery Loo – UC Berkeley

This guide was developed to help grant applicants follow the NSF policy for data management plans.

INTRODUCTION

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This is a 5 minute presentation for the Instructor Development Program Lightning Talks at UC Berkeley Library on December 14, 2010. It demonstrates the process of adding images to PowerPoint 2007 slides.

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This was a guest lecture and discussion for LIB 100 Information Literacy, an undergraduate class at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.

It was conducted as a live web conference and was 50 minutes long. The students were together in a classroom in North Carolina and I web conferenced in from California.

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A presentation for the Library Tech Training (LibTech) program at the UC Berkeley Library.

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Attendance

• November 10, 2010 – 13 attendees (UCB Library staff)

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Background
POGIL is short for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning.  Its basic tenets are:

• Instruction can teach content as well as process skills like analytical thinking and effective teamwork.
• Students collaborate in teams and work through guided learning activities.
• Leading questions are posed to students.  By following a number of guided activities, students find answers to the questions and formulate validated conclusions.
• The instructor serves as a facilitator, addressing individual and group needs, while students work in self-managed teams.
• The POGIL project is supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, among other groups.
• (Paraphrased from: http://pogil.org/about)

Purpose
In UC Berkeley’s Chemistry 108 (Inorganic Synthesis Laboratory), students write lab reports that require references to chemical literature.  To help students with this assignment, the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library provided a 3-hour instructional session that explained:

• Types of chemical information resources including tertiary, secondary, and primary resources
• When to use information resources in scientific writing
• Preparing reference citations in ACS style
• Searching by chemical structure, molecular formula, and name
• Searching SciFinder, Gmelin, and Combined Chemical Dictionary
• Learning about the history of a research topic/article and its later development via cited reference searches
• Finding information resources at the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library
• Availability of ChemDraw and bibliographic software to aid scientific writing

Methods
A POGIL-inspired approach was taken for the Chemistry 108 library instruction.

• A “libratory” manual was created with short, guided activities that help students understand information literacy concepts, recognize information research problems, and then resolve them through hands-on searching of databases.
• Students worked in groups of 2 or 3 to search chemical information databases together.
• After each short activity, our class engaged in a group discussion of the learning outcomes and any questions raised.

Results

• Two classes were taught:
  • September 8, 2010 –  8 students (3 hours)
  • September 9, 2010 – 6 students (3 hours)
• A “libratory” manual with guided activities and post-activity discussion notes was prepared.
  • Please download here.

For the one-hour student orientations at the Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library:

Dates and attendance

Orientation materials available at:

• http://www.jeffloo.com/stuff/2010/instruction/orientation/

Preview of the guidebook

PURPOSE: To develop a protocol for interviewing scientists about their library and information needs.

TYPE: Qualitative research methodology for semi-structured interviews conducted in-person.

AUDIENCE: Liaison librarians

METHODS: Reviewed studies examining the information behavior of scientists.  Developed a concept map of scientific research objectives, associated information activities, and supportive resources and services.  The participant’s evaluation of the concept map forms the basis of the interview.

RESULTS:

• Protocol (Full-text PDF)
• Concept maps for participants to evaluate
  • Summary version (Full-text PDF)
  • Detailed version (Full-text PDF)
• Presentation
  • See slides below
  • Transcript (Full-text PDF)

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PRESENTATION SLIDES

TYPE: Seminar

METHODS: Initiated, organized, and promoted the seminar.

SPEAKER: Dr. Antony Williams.  He is the Vice President of Strategic Development at the Royal Society of Chemistry and is the host of ChemSpider, a free online structure centric community for chemists.

AUDIENCE: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley personnel, and researchers interested in online collaboration, data storage and curation, data exchange, crowdsourcing, and open access.

FORMAT: 90 minute presentation

DATE AND VENUE: March 24, 2010 – Building 50 Auditorium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ABSTRACT: The increasing availability of free and open access resources for scientists on the internet presents us with a revolution in data availability. The Royal Society of Chemistry hosts ChemSpider, a free access website for chemists built with the intention of building community for chemists (http://www.chemspider.com/).

ChemSpider is an aggregator of chemistry related information, at present over 20 million unique chemical entities linked out to over 300 separate data sources, ChemSpider has taken on the task of both robotically and manually curating publicly available data sources. It is also a public deposition platform where chemists can deposit their own data including novel structures, analytical data, synthesis procedures and host data associated with the growing activities associated with Open Notebook Science.

This presentation will examine chemistry on the internet, the dubious quality of what is available and how the ChemSpider crowdsourced curation platform is fast becoming one of the centralized hubs for resourcing information about chemical entities.

We will also review our efforts to provide free resources for synthesis procedures, spectral data and structure-based searching of the chemistry literature and how chemists can contribute directly to each of these projects.

Following the presentation and a question and answer session, a hands on session showing how to search for, curate and deposit data on ChemSpider will be given for interested parties.

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SLIDES:

PURPOSE: To draft survey questions for an evaluation of the UC Libraries Springer Pilot agreement for open access publishing.

TYPE: Questionnaire

AUDIENCE: Springer Journal Open Access Pilot Task Force, University of California

METHODS: Drafted a questionnaire based on the findings from a literature review

RESULTS: The draft survey is currently being reviewed.

TYPE: Report

AUDIENCE: Springer Journal Open Access Pilot Task Force, University of California

PURPOSE: To identify potential survey questions and research findings to test for an evaluation of the UC Libraries Springer Pilot agreement for open access publishing.

METHODS: Reviewed 8 studies that examined scholarly communication or evaluated open access publishing.

RESULTS:

• A concept map illustrating a framework for evaluating open access (Full text PDF)
• A spreadsheet identifying pertinent research findings for testing and surveying (Full text PDF)

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