Using BEN What Did You Find BEN Scholars
Using BEN: What Did You Find? BEN Scholars Institute July 2008 Amy Chang Education Director American Society for Microbiology
BEN Pre-assignment Results Number of attempts to get results 56% - 1 or 2 attempts 78% - 3 attempts
1997 Vision “The proposed library will be an electronic journal of peer-reviewed educational resources for the teaching community. It will be analogous to an electronic journal of peer-reviewed scientific articles for the research community. ” From NSF proposal 1997
2005 Practice • Portal for biological sciences • ~10, 000 peer reviewed resources • 11 societies and centers • National Science Digital Library
Resource is Not Worth Collecting IF It Can’t Be FOUN D SHARED
The NEED for Cataloguing Information • Users - Browse and Find • Librarians, Dbase Managers Organize • Authors - Name and Describe
Relationship of Cataloguing Information and Resource Catalogue Info Catalogue Info
HARVEST the Catalogue Info ASM Server Catalogue Info ML Resource ML Catalogue Info AAAS Server ML Catalogue Info
BEN is POWER BEN is YOURS • Resources produced FOR and BY you • Represents historical, current and new resources • Dynamic, changing, moving, evolving • Advancing biology education reform
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