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Your Research @ NTU Library Resource Discovery Workshop For CEE Research

Engineering & Maritime Studies Email : ckmlim@ntu.edu.

Engineering Librarian for Environmental Engineering Email:lena.sam@ntu.

RamaRavikumar Ramakrishnan Engineering Librarian for Aerospace &

1 Your NTU Library Resource Discovery Workshop For CEE Research Students 12 th Aug 2013 Lim Kong Meng Engineering Librarian for Civil Engineering & Maritime Studies ckmlim@ntu.edu.sg ; Tel : (65) Civil engineering Subject Room Lena Sam Engineering Librarian for Environmental Engineering lena.sam@ntu.edu.sg ; Tel: (65) Environmental engineering Subject Room RamaRavikumar Ramakrishnan Engineering Librarian for Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering ramakrishnan@ntu.edu.sg ; Tel : (65) Mechanical engineering Subject Room

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library find us! events! End note! 600,000 147,000 One search!

or Mass Rapid Transit --> metro, subway, etc. E.g.

3 Information Searching Skills Keywords represent the major concepts in your search. Be sure to consider alternative spellings, synonyms, acronyms when selecting your keywords. E.g. Hand phone --> mobile phone, cell phone etc. or Mass Rapid Transit --> metro, subway, etc. E.g. Research topic: Development of rock caverns Example: Rock caverns granite cave, underground, rock structures NTU Library. All rights reserved 8

Information Searching Skills Using Boolean connectors or operators

rock structures OR: broadens searches AND, NOT: narrows searches

4 Information Searching Skills Using Boolean connectors or operators in Block Building Search Strategy granite caves 1. rock structures OR: broadens searches AND, NOT: narrows searches granite caves 2. rock structures Examples 1. granite caves OR rock structures 2. granite caves AND underground granite caves thesis 3. rock structures 3. (granite caves OR rock structures) NOT thesis Singapore Singapore AND (granite caves OR underground OR rock structures) granite caves underground rock structures NTU Library. All rights reserved 9

5 Information Searching Skills More Search Tips Use quotation marks (single or double) for phrase searching - punching shear [Note: single for NTU Library Catalogue; double for Google] Use wildcard symbols to replace character(s) - # *? organi#ation retrieves: organization & organisation wom?n retrieves: woman & women Use truncation symbols - * $!? - nano$ retrieves: nanotechnology, nanoscience, nanostructure, nanoscale, nanochemistry, nanomaterials Do note that there is no common standard for symbols. Look at the help pages of each database to ensure the correct use of the various symbols NTU Library. All rights reserved 10

7 One Search Books, e-books, journal articles and other publications >>> One Search Books Print Journals AV ebooks Research Articles Patents Library Catalogue Conference Proceedings ejournals A-Z List DR-NTU Databases Standards FYPs Theses NTU Library. All rights reserved 12

The repository contains open access collections as well as restricted

15 DR-NTU Digital Repository-NTU Aims to capture, store and preserve the intellectual output of NTU. The repository contains open access collections as well as restricted collections which are accessible only to the NTU Community and require user authentication to view the full text NTU Library. All rights reserved 20

16 Some E-Resources To Note Bibliographic with abstracts Engineering Village Water Resources Abstracts via ProQuest Full-text Articles (text/html/pdf) ASCE Research Library ASTM Digital Library IEEE Xplore SpringerLink Sciverse ScienceDirect Conference Proceedings ISI Proceedings ACM Proceedings IEEE Proceedings Proceedings published by Springer e-books & e-journals SpringerLink CRCnetBASE Titles Referex Wiley Online Library Knovel ICE Virtual Library Dissertations/Thesis Dissertations & Theses via ProQuest Citations Web of Science Sciverse Scopus NTU Library. All rights reserved 21

17 Some E-Resources To Note Citrix Construction Infonet Fairplay* CI-online* Tradewinds* [*maritime related] Standards IEEE British Standards ETSI ITU-R Recommendations ITU-T Recommendations NISO SMPTE for Motion Picture/Television Patents (Free!) (European Patent Office) Google Patents USPTO Business (company or industry info) BCC Research Business Source Premier OneSource Passport GMID ISI Emerging Markets REALIS - Real Estate Information System (URA) News Factiva LexisNexis Academic Press Display NTU Library. All rights reserved 22

Searching Databases ASCE Research Library NOTE: ASCE Civil

provides access to all full-text electronic articles from ASCE

18 Searching Databases ASCE Research Library NOTE: ASCE Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is free in the Internet. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Research Library provides access to all full-text electronic articles from ASCE journals and conference proceedings. 1. Search 2. Results 3. PDF NTU Library. All rights reserved 23

19 Searching Databases Engineering Village 2 leading bibliographic databases COMPENDEX : > 5,000 journals, conferences and technical reports; 175 disciplines within engineering and applied science; coverage from 1884 INSPEC : physics, electrical, electronics and control engineering, and information technology and related subject areas; from 1969 Other contents include: Referex - E-book reference collection NTIS National Technical Information service, database for accessing unclassified reports from influential U.S. and international government agencies NTU Library. All rights reserved 24

Internet resources Some recommended search engines & subject gateways http://scholar.google.

22 Internet resources Some recommended search engines & subject gateways Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research Access to the very best Web resources of Science, Engineering and Technology for education and research Comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet; covers science-related Web pages.produced by Elsevier Find resources in engineering, mathematics and computing Search multidisciplinary resources including Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math, etc. Registered for product & supplier news, engineering news NTU Library. All rights reserved 27

Full text @ NTU Work with Internet Search Engine to

@NTU Library Add to Browser Favourites Install

articles Full text From any internet search engine

24 Full NTU Work with Internet Search Engine to retrieve NTU subscribed full text articles or e- books from the Internet How to install? NTU Library home page > Tools & Guides > full Library Add to Browser Favourites Install library Toolbar or Seamless access to NTU subscribed articles Full text From any internet search engine search results list Article abstract Apply NTU Library. All rights reserved 29

Findit @ NTU Work with Google Scholar to retrieve NTU

Nanyang > Find Library > Save Seamless access to NTU

25 NTU Work with Google Scholar to retrieve NTU subscribed full text articles or e-books from the Internet How to configure? Google scholar > Settings > Library links > enter Nanyang > Find Library > Save Seamless access to NTU subscribed articles Full text Google Scholar search results list NTU Library. All rights reserved 30

Researching Skills and Strategies Grad -Tutorial 2

Researching Skills and Strategies Grad -Tutorial 2 @unbengcslib UNB Engineering & Computer Science Library By: Saran Croos Librarian for Engineering and Computer Science Engineering Library (Head Hall)