Library Workshop ECET 401 Fall, 2009 Librarian: Haymwantee Singh Professors Ron Rockland and Alex Blinder

Library Workshop ECET 401 Assignment 1 – Differentiate between a book and an article.

Book vs Article Book: Williams, Karl P., Build your own humanoid robot, New York, McGraw-Hill, Citation Elements Of This Book Are: Author: Williams, Karl P Title of book: Build your own humanoid robot Place of Publication: New York Publisher: McGraw-Hill Date: 2004 Article: Adams, B.; Breazeal, C.; Brooks, R.A.; Scassellati, B., "Humanoid robots: a new kind of tool,“IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, vol.15, no.4, pp.25-31, Jul/Aug 2000 Citation Elements Of This Article Are: Author: Adams, B.; Breazeal, C.; Brooks, R.A.; Scassellati, B. Title of Article: "Humanoid robots: a new kind of tool," Source Title: IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, Volume: vol.15 Issue: no.4 Pages: pp Date: Jul/Aug 2000

Objectives Determine your information requirements for your research question Locate and retrieve relevant information using scholarly websites and resources Evaluate the quality of a website Use bibliographic tools for citing your sources

Workshop Topics Library Homepage Web Research Database Research Wikipedia Bibliography & Citing Resources

List of Engineering Technology Databases

Research Databases for ET ASME journals online – mechanical engineering Academic Search Premier – general IEEE Xplore – Electrical and Computer Engineering Science Direct – science, engineering, etc Scopus – science, technology, medicine, business ReferenceUSA – gives company and industry info. Patents Business Source Premier – business information Lexis Nexis – law and ethics

How do I find scholarly information on prosthetic legs?

Scitopia.org is a free federated search tool for scholarly literature of various leading science and technology publishers.

TOPICS AUTHOR PUBS prosthesis IEEE is a society

Expand TOPICS here Find the pdf of this IEEE article at the library.

Find the IEEE Xplore database

Select the letter “I”

Database is IEEE XPLORE. Select advanced Search option.

Type in the title words of the article

PDF is here.

Select this item

Select the product google scholar and execute the same search.

Notice that your search set has been reduced. Page down!

Select this item.

More of the pdf

More of the pdf – article includes useful bibliography

Let’s go deeper into google scholar on the next page.

Select the option “Advanced Scholar Search”.

Add the exact phrase: “state of the art” and select the subjects engineering and medicine.

Click on each of these items. Notice that our total has been now reduced further.

See our journals list:

How do I find Company Information? Find Company profile information in Reference USA database Find articles on companies and industry in Business Source Premier database

xxx xx Company is located in Illinois

xxx xx ReferenceUSA database is a commercial product available at Jersey Clicks via our library at:

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References and links on Good Manufacturing Practices

Evaluate Web Resources 1.Authority 2.Accuracy 3.Currency 4.Objectivity For more go to: owto/evaluate.php

Types of websites. edu educational (often contain student pages as well as scholarly research).gov governmental (usually dependable).com commercial (may be trying to sell a product and may have inaccuracies).net network (may provide services to commercial or individual customers).org organization (non-profit institutions; note the source of funding, may be biased).mil military.biz Commercial use (selling a product)

Purposes of web resources Commercial Informative Educational Entertaining Advocacy – promote, sponsoring, suuport Persuasive – influence, convince Hoax Institutional

How to Evaluate Information – video tutorial 2 websites are compared and discussed with respect to 4 important criteria for evaluating web resources 1.Authority 2.Accuracy 3.Currency 4.Objectivity php (presented by Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener University located in Chester Pennysylvania

Questions to ask about a website to determine the quality What type of web page is this? What is its purpose? Who is the author of this page? Who is the audience? When was the page last updated? Is there a contact? If yes, note the contact. Does it list scholarly sources? Does the author have a bias or agenda? (Is this bias stated or hidden?)

Cite Your Sources Use programs such as KnightCite, NoodleBib, Express or Citation Machine to create a bibliography in MLA or APA style. See library’s homepage:

Cite

Workshop Topics

Select other google products