Front Cover; Managing Scientific Information and Research Data; Copyright; Contents; Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The road from chemistry-to microbiology-to information science; References; Chapter 2: Scientific communication in the digital age; 2.1 . Introduction; 2.2 . Challenging the traditional scientific publishing model; 2.3 . The impact of the Open Access Movement on STEM publishing; 2.4 . New models of scientific communication and publishing; 2.5 . Use of social media in scientific communication; 2.6 . Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Ethics in scientific publishing 3.1 . Introduction3.2 . Are we ever going to know the truth?; 3.3 . Biases of editors; 3.4 . Manipulating the impact factor of journals; 3.5 . Peer-review issues; 3.6 . Detecting scientific fraud; 3.7 . How do researchers decide what to cite in their publications?; 3.8 . Why do researchers resort to unethical behavior?; 3.9 . Organizations involved in preventing unethical behavior; 3.10 . Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: An editor's view: interview with John Fourkas; Chapter 5: Finding and managing scientific information; 5.1 . Introduction; 5.2 . Discovery tools 5.3 . "Smart" tools for managing scientific information5.4 . Information resources and filtering of information; 5.4.1 . Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM); 5.4.1.1 . PubMed/MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine); 5.4.1.2 . PubChem (NCBI); 5.4.2 . Google Scholar; 5.4.3 . Reaxys (Reed Elsevier Properties SA); 5.4.4 . SciFinder (CAS); 5.4.5 . Scopus (Elsevier); 5.4.6 . Web of Science (Thomson Reuters); 5.5 . Comparing resources; 5.6 . Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Science information literacy and the role of academic librarians 6.1 . Is there a future for information literacy instruction?6.2 . The many faces of information literacy; 6.3 . Managing citations; 6.3.1 . What bibliographic management programs allow us to do; 6.3.2 . Most popular bibliographic management programs; 6.3.2.1 . EndNote (Thomson Reuters); 6.3.2.2 . Mendeley (Elsevier, Inc.); 6.3.2.3 . Zotero; 6.3.3 . Choosing a bibliographic management program; 6.4 . Designing information literacy instruction; 6.5 . How do we know we are helping students learn?; 6.5.1 . What usage statistics tell us; 6.6 . Assessing student learning; 6.7 . Instruction formats 6.8 . Other elements of information literacy6.9 . Sample questions for assignments in science courses; References; Chapter 7: Information literacy and social media: interview with Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri; References; Chapter 8: Coping with "Big Data": eScience; 8.1 . Introduction; 8.2 . Types of research data; 8.3 . Managing data; 8.3.1 . Data curation; 8.3.2 . Data preservation, archiving, and storage; 8.4 . Data standards; 8.5 . Citing data; 8.6 . Data sharing; 8.7 . eScience/eResearch; 8.8 . Data repositories and organizations involved in data preservation; 8.9 . Data management plans