Nuclear Engineering 590 Navigating the Research Universe Angela Davis Engineering Librarian

Overview  Library Services  Borrowing Privileges  Interlibrary Loan  Citation & Research Management  Consultations  Research Strategies  International Nuclear Information System Database  SciTech Connect  Web of Science  Questions

Your Librarians  Engineering Library  325 Hammond  Angela Davis  Vanessa Eyer  Linda Musser

Borrowing Privileges Fact: Graduate Students & Faculty can borrow up to 500 items at a time. Fact: Penn State is the 9 th largest academic library in North America, with over 7 million works on the shelves and online.

Items Not Available? Engineering Library staff can also order standards, technical reports and other materials on demand.

Article Delivery Too busy to come to the library? We deliver!! Too busy to come to the library? We deliver!! Provides electronic access to Penn State print journal collections All articles are posted to your ILLiad Account

Citation Guides

Citation Management Software  FREE reference manager and academic social network  Use to:  organize personal research library  collaborate with colleagues and share papers  cite papers from your library and change citation styles with the touch of a button  generate bibliographies automatically with Word or OpenOffice  synchronize your research paper library across multiple devices

Data Management Toolkit  Guidance on:  Describing data  Sharing & distributing data  Reuse, archiving, & preservation of data

Reference Services Librarians and staff in subject libraries, plus Lots of service desks-- drop in or make an appointment Click for virtual assistance OR

Research Resources Fact: 24/7 remote access to top journals, eBooks, and databases with your PSU access ID Is Incomplete! Fact: Penn State Libraries has over 500 databases of scholarly & technical literature Fact: Penn State Libraries has over 500 databases of scholarly & technical literature

Nuclear Engineering Databases  Subject Guide  Links to databases, books, websites, & other information on nuclear engineering   International Nuclear Information System (INIS)  Covers nuclear reactors, reactor safety, nuclear fusion, applications of radiation in medicine, etc.   SciTech Connect  Includes Department of Energy technical reports, articles, conference papers, etc.   Web of Science  Use to find citations to relevant articles in all areas of science and engineering. 

Search Strategies  Subject terms  Words that consistently describe a topic  Truncation  Search on multiple word endings  i.e. clad* = clad, clads, cladding, cladded, etc.  Search alerts  Automatic updates on search strings

Questions? If you have further questions, please use the Ask-a- Librarian service or contact your librarian/subject specialist. Angela Davis Engineering Librarian 325 Hammond Building