17 research outputs found
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Science Communication across STEM Disciplines:Who’s Keen, Who’s Not?
This is a program evaluation study of an interest group (IG) that advances public engagement by STEM researchers and provides opportunities to develop science communication skills. The study addresses these questions and observations: 1) Members of biomedical/biosciences disciplines are more common participants in the IG’s science communication activities than members from other STEM disciplines. 2) What are the characteristics of STEM disciplines that are more resistant/less amenable to participating in science communication activities?UT Librarie
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STEM Librarians and the Future of Scholarly Publishing: Scholarly Communication Concepts that Researchers Need
This narrative reflection describes how five librarians developed a scholarly communication workshop intended for a specific conference with an audience of science researchers, then proceeded to modify it to fulfill different professional development opportunities. We explored themes around open access, the current and future landscape of scholarly publishing, and the decision factors for researchers when choosing a journal to submit papers to. Identifying further venues for the workshop and submitting formal and informal proposals leveraged our knowledge of our own professional associations and what might appeal to those audiences
Developing and Validating a PubMed Infant Hedge: An MLA Pediatrics Librarians Caucus Initiative
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STS Research Agenda Task Force: Survey Results
As part of our charge to provide STS members with recommended areas for exploration in science and technology library research, we sent out a survey in the Fall of 2014. The 258 responses helped create a snapshot of what areas are currently being researched and what could be important areas of future research.Poster presented at the ACRL 2015 Conference in Portland, OR.UT Librarie
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Science Outreach
Four UT researchers discuss how science outreach events led them to their current careers and why they do science outreach.UT Librarie
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Teaching a Reading Method for Scientific Research Articles: Transforming an Exercise from In-Person to Virtual Instruction in Volume 1 of Teaching Critical Reading Skillss: Strategies for Academic Librarians
For students whose previous education has relied solely on reading textbooks, first
encounters with scholarly literature can be chastening experiences. Few studies explore
how students approach primary literature; fewer still focus on STEM reading. Scientific
research articles, which may provide minimal background and make assumptions about
readers’ level of expertise and domain knowledge, can be daunting indeed and pose a
barrier to understanding, learning, and application, particularly for students whose previous educational exposures haven’t prepared them for “cracking the code” of scientific
communication. The converse problem of students overestimating their abilities to grasp
such articles also occurs. Fortunately, these articles share a boilerplate anatomy, which
instructors can commend to neophyte consumers of scientific research as a useful key to
unlocking their contents. In this chapter, I describe an exercise that leverages the widely used IMRaD structure of scientific research articles in order to help students understand article contents
as well as my process in moving this exercise online. This reading method also provides
students practice in assessing abstracts to determine whether or not to proceed to the
full text, a skill that will serve them well when they no longer have access to articles via
subscription-rich university libraries and have to decide whether to spend their own or
their employer’s money to get the full text.UT Librarie
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Science Communication: Recognition & Rewards
The purpose of this study is to examine whether and how science communication and public engagement activities are rewarded in promotion and tenure.UT Librarie