Literature Searching For Your Summer Scholarship 2011 - Science and Engineering

• 1. Literature Searching For Your Summer Scholarship 2011

2. Our mission is Look at whats been done on the topic Find past papers and read them Some groups have been given papers by supervisors Literature review Learn health and safety, lab restrictions Write a report with references Doing the work making models, synthesis, coding, designing systems, purifications, construction Find existing products (hardware, code) Find manufacturers information Find out if people have used components what issues are there with them 3. We already know... Textbooks for fundamentals Catalogue Database searching (ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science) Subject specific databases (PsycInfo, IEEEXplore, arXiv, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts) Manufacturers datasheets Structure of report Referencing Use of Endnote to store references 4. We need to know... What questions to ask LaTeX Endnote 5. The Literature You 6. The Research ProcessDefine your topicWhat information do you need?Who would have written about it? Where? Find information Judge it is it reliable? relevant? does it point in new directions? is it enough? or do you still need more?Analyse and synthesiseCite all sources! 7. We would find info in... Google Google Scholar Wikipedia Library catalogue Library MultiSearch Library databases (Web of Science, SciFinder, Scopus, ACM) Supervisor, other people in the field Authors webpages, other archives Manufacturers datasheets 8. Getting Started 9. Web of Science 10. Scopus 11. Scopus 12. Google Scholar 13. More databases 14. Theses 15. Standards Online AS/NZS ASTM IEEE NFPA fire codes or Print collection AS BS ISO Eurocodes 16. Requesting from EPS 17. Interloans(image: world map of libraries) 18. Citing 19. Using Endnote 20. Using Endnote 21. Using Endnote My Grand Chemical Engineering Research Project Thing 22. Weve learned... About library subject guides. They seem useful and easy to use That reference material is linked to off the library website, not just databases Wikipedia is good I didnt know the library had subscriptions to so many databases/journals To search multiple databases for a wider range of articles, rather than one or two How to use refinement options on databases The use of quotation marks to group terms in a topic search on the database 23. Weve learned... Range of databases that can be used for searching The database search locations, with citation counts Finding relevant literature from Web of Science Scopus seems easier to use than Web of Science Scopus has resources related to my subject Can download all /selected texts as PDFs all at once, not just individually Science Direct is better than Scopus Found out about two databases (Scopus and Compendex) I will use in future IEEEXplore exists seems useful 24. Weve learned... Google Scholar finds results from open databases too Google has a code search facility Asklive - ability to talk to a librarian online Interloans to get material thats not available online UC Research Repository for theses and other UC publications The library has standards eg ISO, BS Introduction to Endnote for managing references Tutorials available 25. We still want to know... More specific information on [my subject] Check the subject guide at http://canterbury.libguides.com/ and talk to the subject liaison librarian Is there an easy way to compare results of two differentdatabases? Alas no. Though you could download all the results from each into Endnote. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ - visit the Preferences page and search for Canterbury under Library Links How to access article full text when its not available online Visit http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/interloans/ 26. We still want to know... A handout of all the databases Theres too many for a handout but see http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/databases/ or your subject guide Search criteria to pick up more results Using fewer keywords, more generic keywords (eg animal instead of cat), or alternative terms (cat OR feline) will usually pick up more results but your subject liaison librarian can help with your specific topic. How can I be sure I have found everything relevant? Youll probably never have everything but when youve searched a variety of databases with a variety of search methods and keywords and you keep getting results youve already seen, youve probably got the most important stuff. 27. We still want to know... How to use Endnote properly Book a course at http://webapps.libr.canterbury.ac.nz/webdb/course.php?sum mary=1 (yes, this includes Macs) Endnote / Latex / BibTeX Latex uses BibTeX to format references (rather than working directly with Endnote). You can still use Endnote to manage references, then export:File > Export > Output style = BibTeX Export 28. We still want to know... How to formulate thesis questions / What makes a good article / Format of literature review These arent our specific areas of expertise but try... Learning Skills runs workshops: http://www.lps.canterbury.ac.nz/lsc/ We have books about writing in science/engineering: http://webapps.libr.canterbury.ac.nz/webdb/biblioplus.php?pa ge=el_techbks And search for review articles in databases to find examples in your field. 29. Slides http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/ 30. Contact us