Pamela Dennis, MLS, PhD, University of Memphis

• Provide information about STEM education

• Determine what resources STEM faculty use when conducting academic research

• Identify major STEM journals• Identify which journals are lacking in the

University Libraries• Suggest needs for future purchase

STEM education encompasses the areas of science, technology, engineering, and

mathematics, and is a philosophy of teaching and learning that encourages “quantitative

reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical skills relevant for the 21st century workforce.”

• The Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Teaching and Learning (CRISTAL)

• Tigers Teach• TRIO STEM Program• MemphisSTEM (NSA-funded)• Tennessee Leadership Academy• Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority

Participation (TLSAMP)• West Tennessee STEM

• American Mathematical Society• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics• American Society for Engineering Education• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers• American Society of Civil Engineers• National Society of Black Engineers• American Chemical Society• National Center for Women and Information

TechnologyFor more comprehensive list, see http://libguides.memphis.edu/STEM_Ed

STEM SCHOOLS IN TENNESSEESTEM SCHOOLS IN TENNESSEE

STEM SUPPORT @ NATIONAL LEVELSTEM SUPPORT @ NATIONAL LEVEL

STEM EFFORTS AT U of MSTEM EFFORTS AT U of M SURVEY RESULTSSURVEY RESULTS

Blossoming the STEM: Libraries Working as STEM Education PartnersBlossoming the STEM: Libraries Working as STEM Education Partners

ABSTRACTABSTRACT Library faculty at the University of Memphis recently have become very involved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. To acquaint ALA attendees with ways the library can partner in this field, the poster defines STEM and lists its areas of academic study and supporters. A second portion lists ways that public, school, and academic libraries have successfully collaborated based on library literature. Finally, graphs and statistics make up the final portion related to an ongoing project that investigates publications by STEM faculty at this institution over the last five years to determine if the authors acquired their bibliographic references through the library’s resources or resorted to other venues. Citation analysis was conducted via Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science database and through faculty surveys.

• 201 STEM faculty were surveyed during Spring semester 2013 using Qualtrics survey software

• 22% of STEM faculty responded

• Of respondents, 20% had published in the last 5 years

• 82% of those who published in the last 5 years were employed at the university at the time

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Journal Title Impact Factor

Eigenfactor Score Held at U of M?

Chemical Reviews 40.197 0.21470 YES

Chemical Society Reviews 28.760 0.13678 YES

Accounts of Chemical Research 21.640 0.10120 YES

Nature Chemistry 20.524 0.03284 NO

Nano Today 15.355 0.01213 YES

Cell Biology

Journal Title Impact Factor Eigenfactor Score Held at U of M?

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 39.123 0.17417 YES

Cell 32.403 0.66082 YES

Cancer Cell 26.566 0.11452 YES

Cell Stem Cell 25.421 0.10082 YES

Nature Medicine 22.462 0.16542 YES

Engineering, Multidisciplinary

Journal Title Impact Factor Eigenfactor Score Held at U of M?

Combustion and Flame 3.585 0.02045 YES

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering 3.451 0.00066 NO

Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

2.767 0.00245 YES

Journal of the Franklin Institute -Engineering and Applied Mathematics

2.724 0.00279 NO

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

2.651 0.04018 YES

Computer Science, Information Systems

Journal Title Impact Factor Eigenfactor Score Held at U of M?

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

6.311 0.00502 NO

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

4.675 0.01701 YES

MIS Quarterly 4.447 0.00977 YES

Enterprise Information Systems 3.684 0.00127 NO

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

3.609 0.01361 YES

HIGHEST IMPACT FACTOR HIGHEST IMPACT FACTOR FOR STEM JOURNALSFOR STEM JOURNALS

Mathematics

Journal Title Impact Factor Eigenfactor Score Held at U of M?

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

3.841 0.01676 YES

Foundations of Computational Mathematics

3.615 0.00614 YES

Acta Mathematica 3.333 0.00608 YES

Annals of Mathematics 2.928 0.02795 YES

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

2.575 0.01768 Stopped 2010

92% of U of M responding STEM faculty who have published in the past 5 years used the University Libraries’ databases. Most also used another university’s databases, obtained the resources through Interlibrary Loan, and/or used Google.

U of M STEM faculty have published in 24 journals over the past 5 years, all but one of which is accessible in the University Libraries. Of those journals, 15 (63%) were in the top 20 list of journals in that discipline based on impact factor.

STEM EDUCATIONSTEM EDUCATION

OBJECTIVESOBJECTIVES

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