Engineering & Science Library
ELEC 49x: Electrical/ Computer Engineering Project Information Resources for Your Project Nasser Saleh nasser.saleh@queensu.ca Fall 2010 1
Agenda •
Information Literacy Skills
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Library Website and QCAT
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Reference books
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Articles in Engineering
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Standards and codes
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Patents
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Refworks
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Questions 2
Information Literacy Skills
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http://library.queensu.ca
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http://library.queensu.ca/webeng
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Subject Guide
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Connect from Off Campus
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Library Companion @ Moodle
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QCAT
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Summon @ Queen’s
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Reference Books • Fundamentals: definitions, formulas, graphics, properties, overviews … • Electronic and print
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ENGnetBASE
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E-books at Queen’s Books24x7 - ITPro Collection Safari Tech Books Online Springer e-Books And others …
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Synthesis Digital Library Lectures
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Knovel
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Knovel
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Knovel Data Search
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Interactive Tools in Knovel
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Databases/Articles •
How to find articles – Use an index – Use Federated/Meta Searching tools: Summon, Scholars Portal, or Google Scholar – Follow Get It!@Queen’s link for electronic or print – If Queen’s doesn’t own it– request it through ILL (RACER)
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Example: Engineering Village
Results Manager Refine your Search
Get it @ Queen’s 20
Academic Search Complete
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Journals, conference proceedings, and full text ebooks on light-based research
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Get it @ Queen’s
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IEEE Digital Library
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IEEE Advanced Search
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My IEEE
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Statistics & Data
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E-Stat
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Data and Surveys
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Standards •
Describe the important features of a product, service or system
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Identifying standards – Index – Standards Writing Organizations
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IEEE Standards
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Search by number
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Search by subject
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Access draft & archived standards
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Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Collection
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Parts & Suppliers
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Patents • Are examples of Intellectual property • Cover new inventions or any new and useful improvement of an existing invention – 90 % of patents are improvements on existing ones* *Canadian Intellectual Patent Office (2004). A Guide to Patents.
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Canadian Patents Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
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Google Patents http://www.google.com/patents
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Google Patent Page
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Limitations of Google Patents • Even though the ease of use for Google products, the patents database has the following limitations: – U.S. Patents only – The database records are not updates regularly from USPTO 38
http://ep.espacenet.com
60+ million patent documents 70+ countries 1 million non-patent literature documents Patent status and family information Save and print multi-page documents (up to ~50 pages) Documents in PDF format Machine Translations Does not include US reexamination or correction certificates
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Manage your resources and write your report
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RefWorks (Reference Management)
• You need to activate your RefWorks account from the link at the library homepage 41
Visit the library’s RefWorks page for more information about how to use or to attend a workshop
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool (often called a "citation manager"). It will help you save references from database and library catalogue searches, produce bibliographies, and create personal (or group) databases of citations.
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http://library.queensu.ca/libguides/refworks.htm 42
Example
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Build a list of references
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More about Refworks
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Additional Services • If you feel that your team needs any specific resource that we do not have in our collection, please email me as soon as possible, please refer to this course number. • If your project team needs more help in identifying/ locating more resources for your project, email me to schedule a meeting.
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Questions ? Contact Information Web: http://library.queensu.ca/webeng/ Reference ReferenceDesk Desk Phone: Phone:533-2610 533-2610 E-mail: E-mail:engsci@queensu.ca engsci@queensu.ca Circ/Reserve Circ/ReserveDesk Desk Phone: Phone:533-6981 533-6981 Hours, Hours,2010-2011 2010-2011 M-Th M-Th Fri Fri Sat Sat Sun Sun
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