It is just past the second half of the semester so just to
keep this blog alive I think I’ll put down some random thoughts.
I met with a group of 6 Kam Sirkar’s graduate students a few
weeks ago as a follow up to the formal training session that I gave at the
beginning of the semester to chemical engineering graduate students. My meeting didn’t start out well as one
student remarked, didn’t you speak to us a few weeks ago. I explained that I wanted an informal session
where students could feel free to ask questions. After a while the students opened up. I have another session scheduled with Ed
Dreizin’s students in a few weeks.
I am grateful that for this semester at least I am finished
doing cited reference searches for the Provost’s Office. Candidates for Distinguished Professor have
very long lists of publications and it is a very tedious procedure to get
statistics for Scopus, Web of Science, and Scifinder. Since NJIT does not subscribe to the Web of
Science it we have to go across the street to the Dana Library at
Rutgers-Newark to do the search.
We just had a successful meeting about Systematic Reviews at
the METRO Science Librarians SIG. We had
a turnout of about 30 which was just about the biggest in the 15 years that I
have convened the group.
We are trying to make a push for an institutional repository
at NJIT. I am disappointed that one is
not in place as we are a research university.
I am also going to have institutional repositories as the theme of the
next METRO meeting.
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