- I read an article on the Popular Science website: http://www.popsci.com
This site provided me with a brief description of her work, as well as, key words to use in my search for information about her work.
- I looked her up on the University of Wisconsin-Madison website: http://www.chem.wisc.edu
On this site, I found a detailed profile, describing her work and listings of publications that were written by Blackwell and other authors. Only a few of the publications listed was written by Blackwell alone, so I tracked the articles down using Clarion's ILLiad feature.
- I also found information about Blackwell on the American Chemical Society (ACS) website: http://pubs.acs.org
Here I found an article about Blackwell's life, career and achievements.
As I continue my research into Blackwell's research, I plan to:
- find the articles written by only Blackwell that were on the publication lists, in order to review her research materials, using Clarion's ILLiad and Databases (EBSCO has not been too helpful, so far)
- search chemistry, as well as, biology resources even though she is a chemist because her work may be found under both disciplines
- collect and review my findings, before presenting them to the class
You may not find an article about her in Wikipedia, but you will likely find something on the topic she usually delves into.
ReplyDeleteI think your strategies are very useful. I wouldn't limit yourself to articles written solely by Blackwell. Often times, your scientist's co-written papers still say a lot about his information-seeking behavior. My scientist often writes articles and papers with other scientists. In fact, the last paper he wrote solo was his dissertation. Nevertheless, most of the papers fall in his research field and only differ slightly when it comes to applying his research to different subjects.
ReplyDeleteThe Blackwell Laboratory at the U of of Wisconsin-Madision website also has some good information on your scientist and her publications and research interests. You might find some good resources there.
ReplyDeleteLooking at http://pub.acs.org they seem to have a lot of articles by H. Blackwell. They also seem to have a lot of special features for those with further access. It seems like the "supporting information" files would be really useful to chemists. The article abstract I happened to look at had a "crystallographic information file". I'm gonna guess that that is some sort of visual aid that depicts the crystal structure, I thought it sounded pretty neat but apparently I don't have the software to open and view it. Shoot.
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