User guide for Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science This resource provides in-depth view of an important research or development topic. It is organized by series and publications are arranged in the form of a 50 to 100-page “lecture”. It is useful to students who want to know more about a topic in the field of Engineering and Computer Science areas.
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Go to http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library Click on databases under Finding Information Select “S” on Alphabetical List or “Engineering > Electrical & Electronics” on Subject List Scroll to find Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
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Browse content
Example: If you are looking for topic on antenna, you can browse series content on “Antennas�. The titles on this topic will be listed such as MIMO communications, antenna arrays, smart antennas, reconfiguration antennas, etc.
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Viewing full text You can view, save, and print the full text content of a title in these two ways: (1) PDF (Portable Document Format): full-text article (2) PDF Plus: full-text article with clickable hyperlinks and smaller file size
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Three ways of Searching: Quick, Simple and Advanced
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Search Tips: (1) Search is case insensitive. Searches do not take case (capitalization) into account. (2) Stemming: a word is automatic stemmed. Example, searches for figure, figures, figuring, or figured will get the same result set as a search for figur. (3) Wildcards: the asterisk (*) and the question mark (?) are supported to search for variation of a word.
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You can search using keywords in the “Term” field and click Search. Example for Simple search: Enter keywords “signal processing” at the Term field will retrieve publications which have the same keywords appeared in the full text.
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Profile account You can register a free account to sign up for email alerts, view saved searches, manage your favourite series and lectures, etc.
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