Summer 2010 Gateway Search Less, Find More!. Information Landscape 1.Know the information landscape 2.Search in the most fruitful places 3.Use sophisticated.

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Summer 2010 Gateway Search Less, Find More!

Information Landscape 1.Know the information landscape 2.Search in the most fruitful places 3.Use sophisticated tools 4.Know how to obtain desired documents 5.Can’t find it? Ask a librarian!

Information Life Cycle

CREATION DISSEMINATIONDISCOVERY

Information Life Cycle Information Consumers Information Producers

Scientific Information Communicate Research to Colleagues/ Dept./Other Researchers –Oral, , blogs, wikis –Preprints/technical reports

Publication Communicate to the World Conference Journal Theses/Dissertations Books Handbooks/Textbooks/Encyclopedia OR Patents

How/Where do we discover these different types of documents Preprints & Technical Reports (aka Grey Literature) Google/ GoogleScholar Discipline specific repositories –Citeseer (computer science) –arXiv (physics, mathematics, computer science) Multidisciplinary –Academic Commons (Columbia Research including tech reports) –NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

How/Where do we discover these different types of documents Conference Papers and Journal Articles Multidisciplinary databases –Web of Science (Science Citation Index) –Scopus –Proquest Research Library –EBSCO Research Databases –Wilson Omnifile Fulltext Mega –GoogleScholar (

How/Where do we discover these different types of documents Conference Papers and Journal Articles Discipline specific databases –Compendex – engineering –INSPEC – computing, electronics, physics, robotics –MathSciNet - mathematics –PubMed Plus/Medline – biomedical –SciFinder Scholar – chemistry

How/Where do we discover these different types of documents Conference Papers and Journal Articles Society or Publisher specific collections –ACS & RSC – chemistry –ACM Digital Library – computing –IEEE Xplore – computing, electrical, electronic, etc. –SIAM – mathematics –MRS Proceedings – materials science –ASME – mechanical engineering –SPIE Digital Library - optics, photonics, imaging –AIP, APS, IOP – physics

How/Where do we discover these different types of documents Theses and Dissertations Dissertation Abstracts –(aka Digital Dissertations) Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

How/Where do we discover these different types of documents Books (Handbooks, Encyclopedias, etc) Columbia Library Catalog –Clio Libraries beyond Columbia –WorldCat Google Book Search, Amazon Ebook Collections –Knovel, Referex, ENGnetBase

How/Where do we discover these different types of documents Patents Derwent Innovations Index USPTO

How to Access these Resources Columbia University Libraries LWeb

Need Assistance? Contact Danianne Mizzy Engineering Library 422 Mudd