Building a Nanotechnology Collection

Building a Nanotechnology Collection : 

Building a Nanotechnology Collection

What is Nanotechnology? : 

What is Nanotechnology? The term "nanotechnology" refers to the conception and creation of functional structures, devices, and systems with dimensions ranging from 1-100 nanometers (nm). --McGraw-Hill Access Science

What is Nanotechnology? : 

What is Nanotechnology?

Nanotech Products : 

Nanotech Products Eddie Bauer Nano-Care™ Khakis

Engineered Biomaterials : 

Engineered Biomaterials

World’s Smallest Guitar : 

World’s Smallest Guitar

Nanotechnology at UW : 

Nanotechnology at UW Center for Nanotechnology 69 faculty from 13 departments Nation’s first PhD program in Nanotechnology Nanotech User Facility Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/UW Joint Institute for Nanoscience

Nanotechnology Faculty : 

Nanotechnology Faculty Chemistry Bioengineering Physics Chemical Engineering Materials Science & Engineering Electrical Engineering Microbiology Physiology & Biophysics Biochemistry Genome Sciences Medicinal Chemistry Mechanical Engineering Radiology

Nanotechnology Research : 

Nanotechnology Research Materials Bio-inspired materials Hybrid materials Devices Nanoelectronics DNA & Protein/DNA Arrays Biomedical Applications Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Cell Signalling

Nanotechnology Research 1970-present : 

Nanotechnology Research 1970-present * 1975-1980

Collection Development at UW : 

Collection Development at UW 2002 – Add Nanotechnology to Blackwell Approval Plan 2002 – Proposal for “New Program Funding” from UW Libraries 2003 – Awarded $5,000/year ongoing funds; split among Engineering, Chemistry and Physics Libraries

Indexes : 

Indexes Inspec – Physics, EE Compendex – Materials Science Medline/PubMed – BioE SciFinder Scholar – Chemistry Web of Science – All subjects

Journals : 

Journals Journal of Biological Chemistry Journal of Materials Science Journal of Chemical Physics Applied Physics Letters Physical Review Letters Journal of the American Chemical Society Nature Science Journal of Applied Physics

Nano-specific Journals : 

Nano-specific Journals Foresight Update (Foresight Institute) 1987- Physica. E, Low-dimensional systems & nanostructures (Elsevier) 1997- Nanotechnology (IOP) 1990- Nano Letters (ACS) 2000- Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (American Scientific Publishers) 2001- IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (IEEE) 2002- IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (IEEE) 2002- Journal of Nanobiotechnology (BioMed Central) 2003-

Conferences : 

Conferences IEEE Bio- Micro- and Nanosystems MEMS, Nano & Smart Systems Materials Research Society Nanophase and Nanocomposite Materials Nanotube-based devices SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) Nano-optics and Nano-structures Biomedical applications of micro- and nanoengineering

Reference Books : 

Reference Books Handbook of nanostructured materials and nanotechnology, 5 vol., Academic Press, 2000 Handbook of nanophase and nanostructured materials, 4 vol., Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2003 Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, 5 vol., Marcel Dekker, 2004 Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, 10 vol., American Scientific Publishers, 2004 CRC’s ENGnetBASE (4 titles) CRC’s NANOnetBASE (10 titles, 15 more expected in the next year)

Challenges : 

Challenges Maintaining the quality of our collections Keeping up with the volume of publishing in this field Separating the wheat from the chaff (hype)

Conclusions : 

Conclusions Work with librarians/selectors in other fields (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Medicine) Convince your library administration to fund new program areas! (Inter)National Nanotechnology Information Network? Regards: Ankush