Building a Nanotechnology Collection at the University of Washington Linda Whang Engineering Instructional Services Librarian University of Washington Engineering Library

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

What is Nanotechnology? SI UnitDescription meter (m)Approximate three feet or one yard centimeter (cm)1/100 of a meter, around half an inch millimeter (mm)1/1,000 of a meter micrometer (μm)1/1,000,000 of a meter; also called a micron – scale of MEMS devices nanometer (nm)1/1,000,000,000 of a meter; the size scale of single small molecules

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

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 InspecCompendexScience Citation Index * ,60922,50210, ,53641,71422,525 *

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

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

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

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?