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Collection by the numbers  5 million volumes  500,000 e-books  80,000 serials, journals  65,000 electronic  $9,500,000 collection budget

Academic Research & Communication Standards Patents Theses & Dissertations Conference Proceedings Journal Articles Books websites Technical Reports Your information is distributed in various sources!

Get expert help Look for chat boxes throughout the library’s website : ! Know your Subject Librarian

Services for Scholars & Faculty  Graduate Student Workshops  Research Consultations  Citation Management guidance  Copyright guidance  Data/Statistics: Numeric, Geospatial (GIS)  Tripsaver: Interlibrary borrowing service

LIBRARY RESEARCH

When to use

What’s Online? The Free Internet: Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. Searchable by Google, Yahoo, etc

What’s Online? The Real Internet: Subscription Content Professional Information The Library can help! The Free Internet: Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. Searchable by Google, Yahoo, etc

The perfect set of information! Google, Scholar etc. Specialized Research Database #2 (PubMed, Textiles Tech., etc.) Specialized Research Database #1 (e.g. Agricola, Compendex, PsychInfo) General Research Database (e.g. Summon, Web of Science, Dissertations, Conference Papers)

Discover your Databases

TIPS FOR SEARCHING

Organize your Search Terms 1.Write down your research topic 2.Identify your topic’s main concepts 3.For each concept, list the synonyms and the related terms/phrases

Use Boolean Searches

Use database tools  Save Search History  Create Search Alerts  Find Times Cited, Create Citation Report  Analyze Search Results  Find Journal Rankings: Journal Citation Reports  Evaluate Author Impact: Cited Author Index

Practice Database Searching

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REFWORKS, A CITATION MANAGEMENT TOOL

How Citation Tools Work Other databases and sources Saved citations Books from catalog Saved citations ONE PLACE -Access from anywhere - Links back to articles, saved PDFs -Organize citations into multiple folders -Create bibliographies Export Export Export Web of Science Agricola CAB abstracts Saved citations

Commonly used Citation Tools  Refworks – Provided by NC State  Endnote – Purchased by user  Zotero – Free access, storage costs  Mendeley – Free access, storage costs

TIP: Master Refworks early on  Import references from databases, Scholar etc.  Organize references in folders  Edit references and add personal notes  Create a bibliography in various output styles  Insert citations, endnotes into a manuscript  Share references with your collaborators

Practice Refworks

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TIP: Find information while you sleep!  Set up article alerts in databases, Scholar  Create Google Alerts  Subscribe to RSS feeds  Set up a feed reader (Google Reader)

Please Ask Us. We’re happy to help! Mohan Ramaswamy Librarian for Life Sciences (919)