Collection Development Policy: Cognitive Sciences
  • Subject Librarian(s):
    Frank Kellerman

  • Description of the Academic Program | Home Page
    From the Cognitive Science site: The cognitive and linguistic sciences
    offer a multidisciplinary study of the mind or what might be called "natural intelligence. Cognitive science seeks an understanding of such mental abilities as perception, recognition, categorization, memory, reasoning and problem-solving, motor control, speech, language, and communication.

    Closely Related Departments and Programs:





  • Overview of the Collection
    Journals
    Over the last few years, Library consortial deals with a number of
    the major publishers in cognitive science have enabled the Library to provide access to a tremendous number of electronic journals. This desktop access to a growing portion of the collection certainly provides improved convenience but also fosters a much greater use of the collection than what was feasible before. Here are several of the important publishers that the Library has made deals with for electronic access



  • General Collecting Guidelines
    The Library attempts to maintain a RESEARCH level collection. A RESEARCH (Collecting Levels) level collection includes the major source materials required for dissertations and independent research. It also includes important reference works and a selection of specialized monographs. With the heavy reliance on journals in biology, the literature of the faculty and graduate students is also an important literature of the undergraduate life science concentrators.

  • Specific Collecting Guidelines
    • Language: English, original or in translation.
    • Imprint Date: Current imprints. As needed - retrospective materials in support of research needs and replacements to missing or damaged volumes. Infrequent - acquisition of out-of-print material.
    • Types of Material Included: Monographs and journals. Selectively, proceedings and textbooks.
    • Electronic Books/Sets: In the near future, the Library will be purchasing an increasing number of monographs and sets in electronic form. Examples of recent purchases in electronic format:


  • Related Collections
    The resources of the Ivy League institutions' libraries are available to Brown faculty and students via the Borrow Direct service. The Virtual Catalog makes the resources of the participating members of the Boston Library Consortium available upon request. For further information, check with the Interlibrary Loan Office (Phone: (401) 863-2750; Email: sci-ill@brown.edu

  • Selected List of Key Internet Resources