Comments for Christina's LIS Rant http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant Just another site Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:45:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 Comment on Library parody of the Old Spice ads – this is hilarious by dweiums http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/15/library-parody-of-the-old-spic/#comment-438 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:45:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/15/library-parody-of-the-old-spic/#comment-438 look up, look down, where are you?
You’re in the library with the man your grades could be like!

oh yeah. look at your backpack – it’s diamonds!
i’m eating a horse. in the library.

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Comment on Yeah, me too. by Martin Fenner http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/08/02/yeah-me-too/#comment-437 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:43:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/08/02/yeah-me-too/#comment-437 Christina, have a good start over at Scientopia. We need strong voices in the information industry. And I’m confused that blogging here was held against you.

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Comment on Yeah, me too. by Christina Pikas http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/08/02/yeah-me-too/#comment-436 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:09:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/08/02/yeah-me-too/#comment-436 I believe they’ll stay here. I’ve also imported them at my new home, http://scientopia.org/blogs/christinaslisrant, just in case. I don’t know if/when I’ll stop having access here, so I’ll probably shut down comments shortly.

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Comment on Yeah, me too. by Jodi Schneider http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/08/02/yeah-me-too/#comment-435 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:03:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/08/02/yeah-me-too/#comment-435 I’m glad that you’re leaving ScienceBlogs because I find their advertising very annoying. What happens to the archives?

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Comment on Very cool – American Physical Society offers free access to public libraries by uqbar http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/29/very-cool-american-physical/#comment-434 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:24:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/29/very-cool-american-physical/#comment-434 Sorry – I can’t get too excited about this. The headline should read: “APS Throws a Bone to Public Libraries – Hopes Pressure to Free Information Paid for by Taxpayers Will Go Away.” Certainly this is good in that there will be a rather limited expansion of access, but why restrict access at all? There mu$t be $ome good rea$on I can’t think of . . .

We need to keep up the pressure to make this information freely available on the Internet, and not buy into these obvious ploys to keep a handle on the money tap.

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Comment on Well, sometimes you just have to Google it by Christina Pikas http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-433 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:39:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-433 Now that’s wrong!

I had a physics professor once who, when asked a question, would say “that’s trivial”. Of course, everything we students would ask him was trivial, but he didn’t get that part!

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Comment on Well, sometimes you just have to Google it by ranggaw0636 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-432 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:47:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-432 “if you have a question ask google”
That’s what my professor always say to me

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Comment on Well, sometimes you just have to Google it by Christina Pikas http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-431 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:30:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-431 Actually, that’s not what I was looking for. I did try a bunch of handbooks, with no luck. Besides using the online versions (like of CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics), I tried Google Books to look for others.

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Comment on Hey maybe scientists should do more than just wait for their journal to issue a press release on their new fabu article by Estraven http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/25/hey-maybe-scientists-should-do/#comment-430 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:44:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/25/hey-maybe-scientists-should-do/#comment-430 Thank you for letting me whine (or maybe rant?).
Another problem is the lack of pictures – physicists make a big fuss about working in 4 (or sometimes 10) dimensions, and extensively quote Flatland. With us the dimension can be n (i.e. any number), infinity, a fraction, or negative. Hard to draw any of those.
Hence most people don’t even understand there’s research going on in mathematics. See for instance the Sb topics list above :-).

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Comment on Well, sometimes you just have to Google it by Passerby http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-429 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:17:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/07/21/well-sometimes-you-just-have-t/#comment-429 You must have been looking for solubility/Ksp tables or IR/UV spectral absorbances of a compound in various solvents. Lucky you, that the ACS has online electronic documents going back that far. A few of the UK and German organic/industrial technical journals/professional society pubs do this, but many others don’t.

The other approach is to find the technical handbooks that have these reference lookup tables for many thousand compounds.

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/solutions/faq/finding-solubility-data.shtml

If I can’t find something like this on-line directly in a citation, the next best approach is to ask in plain english where to find it, in a google search.

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