Essential Services and Tools for Effective Research University Libraries Engineering and Architecture Library American University of Beirut January 23, 2013

Services

Important dates

Researching/Finding Material Identify & Develop Research Topic Identify Concepts/ Keywords/ Alternative keywords Devise Search Strategy Identify Research Tools Evaluate Search Results

Use Catalog to Search for books, eBooks, & Thesis Use quotes when searching for exact phrases

E-Thesis Print Book E-Book

E-Thesis E-Thesis can be accessed Online and downloaded On Campus only

Print Book You can access similar titles By clicking on Traffic Congestion here

E- Book Online Access

E-books databases

Books (Print and Electronic), Theses, Projects, Videos Encyclopedias (Access Science, McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology ) AUBCAT American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks Knovel Engineering Library   CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE Ebrary , Springer eBooks Elsevier eBooks

You can search all E-Book titles from all E-book databases Here Especially the ones that you Won’t find in the library catalog

Books (Print and Electronic), Theses, Projects, Videos Finding Articles Books (Print and Electronic), Theses, Projects, Videos Encyclopedias (Access Science, McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology ) AUBCAT American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks Knovel Engineering Library   CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE Ebrary , Springer eBooks Elsevier eBooks Use search all to find print books,Ebooks, & articles From all databases

Engineering Databases List of Civil Engineering Databases

Environmental Sciences Resources

Water Resources

You may browse or search a specific journal title or proceeding

Select an article and check who cited it Saved Search Alert Icon means fulltext available

Impact factor and Highly Cited Authors CITED BY FUTURE CITED REFERENCES PRESENT PAST

Journal Assessment Tools

Journal Assessment Databases

Cited By Databases & finding Influential Authors

Influential Authors & H-Index Calculation An H-Index of 5 means that 5 of the author’s articles have received at least 5 citations each # of papers # of citations 1 20 2 18 3 13 4 10 5 7 6 8

Cited By Searching Using Scopus

Select Cited by to organize by highly cited first

Cited By Searching Using WOS Use * to retrieve Fiber and fibre

H-Index of author

Click Here to do exact phrase searching in the title Cited By Searching Using Google Scholar Click Here to do exact phrase searching in the title to retrieve relevant results

Other Sources : Grey Literature: Standards: ASTM International Standards  British Standards   Grey Literature: Technical reports from governmental or academic organizations, thesis, dissertations, conference proceedings

Not all PhD dissertations are available in full text Use advanced search to Search for dissertations by advisor, committee Member, Degree (MS, PhD) Not all PhD dissertations are available in full text

full text You can limit by subject or date

You may click on advisor to check other dissertations s/he advised

Use Google advanced search and limit to PDF to retrieve reliable reports and conference articles

You can import citations from GoogleScholar and all databases and arrange them in folders and do the References according to style (ASCE,IEEE, ASME, APA,…)

After downloading Write-N-Cite click on create/Update off line database to work on your references off line. When writing the text you can click on Cite to include the in text citation.

When you finish writing, click on Bibliography, choose the output sryle and click on create Bibliography.

Table of Contents Alert Saved Searches Alert Google Scholar Alert E-mail Alerts Table of Contents Alert Saved Searches Alert Google Scholar Alert

To set an email alert you have to Register

To set an email alert OR a Saved Search you have to Register

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