ECTE955 Using Library Resources Annette Meldrum Faculty Librarian - Informatics

Learning Outcomes Familiarity with library resources Find needed information quickly and efficiently

StartSmart Are you a new student at UOW this year? Lecturers have an expectation that you are familiar with; Academic Culture Finding books Finding journal articles Academic Integrity If unsure, I recommend completing StartSmart – Essential Academic Information Skills

Do you know how to…. find the fulltext of a journal article from a citation? Identify a journal title explain the difference between an edited book and a journal paraphrase and reference carefully to avoid plagiarism Pick up a StartSmart pocket guide at the desk on your way out today!

Use the catalogue to find books

Use Search Guru when you don’t know the details of the book you need Find an ebook on software development HINT refine by format: ebook

Limit search to ebooks = 57

When you know what you are looking for use the Classic Catalogue

Classic Catalogue Blicq, R & Moretto, L. Technically-write! Pearson/Prentice Hall, Call no /7 the record to yourself ( i.e. From the list: Mark and Export the details by ) Find this book

Mark and export details of the book

Ebooks Software development for small teams: A RUP-centric approach. Gary Pollice [et.al.] Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2004 Ebooks are SO CONVENIENT! Read online No overdue fines!

Use the Classic Catalogue search when you know what your looking for

PRINT copy Ebook

ECTE Resources for Assignments

Select Informatics / SECTE

Relevant resources for SECTE available from one easy access point

A-Z journal list under: Article Finder Check whether we have subscription access to the full text of a particular journal?

A-Z journal list They don’t make them like they used to. Colin Fisher, Robert Wagstaff. Nuclear Engineering International. Dartford : Oct 2004, Vol. 49, Issue 603; pg. 22 – 26 Remember to search for Journal Title NOT ARTICLE TITLE

A-Z journal list

Use Ulrichs to check for peer review In your research, ONLY USE ACADEMIC OR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS THAT ARE REFEREED OR PEER REVIEWED

Your turn again? R.K. Pearson, “Nonlinear input/output modelling,” Journal of Process Control, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1995, pp Can you find full text for this journal article? If so, which database provides full text?

Databases are peer reviewed They are full of academic content You can get current information And the results are more relevant! To be successful, use databases NOT Google!

See the list of recommended databases in ECTE Resources for Assignments:

Databases: IEEE Xplore Search IEEE Xplore database for the following citation: Takatsu, H & Itoh, T. Future needs for control theory in industry. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. V.7, no , pp HINT: don’t use the term IEEE when searching the IEEE Xplore database!

Publication Quick Search when you have a citation

In IEEE Xplore, search for: “power engineering” (or your own topic) Limit the search to and standards. How many results?

Try a search on your own topic? Are your results relevant? Too many results OR too few? Too many - Try to refine your search Too few – try a more general search term? Too old – limit your search to the last few years

Today we have … Learnt some valuable search techniques Discovered new resources Any questions?

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