1 ELEC 49x: Electrical/ Computer Engineering Project Information Resources for Your Project Nasser Saleh Fall 2010 Engineering & Science Library

2 Agenda Information Literacy Skills Library Website and QCAT Reference books Articles in Engineering Standards and codes Patents Refworks Questions

3 Information Literacy Skills

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6 Subject Guide

7 Connect from Off Campus

8 Library Moodle

9 QCAT

10 Queen’s

11 Reference Books Fundamentals: definitions, formulas, graphics, properties, overviews … Electronic and print

12 ENGnetBASE

13 E-books at Queen’s Books24x7 - ITPro Collection Safari Tech Books Online Springer e-Books And others …

14 Synthesis Digital Library Lectures

15 Knovel

16 Knovel

17 Knovel Data Search

18 Interactive Tools in Knovel

19 Databases/Articles How to find articles –Use an index –Use Federated/Meta Searching tools: Summon, Scholars Portal, or Google Scholar –Follow Get link for electronic or print –If Queen’s doesn’t own it– request it through ILL (RACER)

20 Example: Engineering Village Get Queen’s Results Manager Refine your Search

21 Academic Search Complete

22 Journals, conference proceedings, and full text e- books on light-based research

23 Get Queen’s

24 IEEE Digital Library

25 IEEE Advanced Search

26 My IEEE -Create alerts -Save searches

27 Statistics & Data

28 E-Stat

29 Data and Surveys

30 Standards Describe the important features of a product, service or system Identifying standards –Index –Standards Writing Organizations

31 IEEE Standards Search by number Search by subject Access draft & archived standards

32 Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Collection

33 Parts & Suppliers

34 Patents Are examples of Intellectual property Cover new inventions or any new and useful improvement of an existing invention –90 % of patents are improvements on existing ones* *Canadian Intellectual Patent Office (2004). A Guide to Patents.

35 Canadian Patents Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)

36 Google Patents

37 Google Patent Page

38 Limitations of Google Patents Even though the ease of use for Google products, the patents database has the following limitations: –U.S. Patents only –The database records are not updates regularly from USPTO

39  60+ million patent documents  70+ countries  1 million non-patent literature documents  Patent status and family information  Save and print multi-page documents (up to ~50 pages)  Documents in PDF format  Machine Translations  Does not include US reexamination or correction certificates

40 Manage your resources and write your report

41 RefWorks (Reference Management) You need to activate your RefWorks account from the link at the library homepage

42 Visit the library’s RefWorks page for more information about how to use or to attend a workshop Queen’s RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool (often called a "citation manager"). It will help you save references from database and library catalogue searches, produce bibliographies, and create personal (or group) databases of citations.

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44 Build a list of references

45 More about Refworks

46 Additional Services If you feel that your team needs any specific resource that we do not have in our collection, please me as soon as possible, please refer to this course number. If your project team needs more help in identifying/ locating more resources for your project, me to schedule a meeting.

47 Questions ? Contact Information Web: Reference Desk Phone: Circ/Reserve Desk Phone: Reference Desk Phone: Circ/Reserve Desk Phone: Hours, M-Th 8:00am – 11:00pm Fri 8:00am – 8:00pm Sat10:00am – 8:00 pm Sun10:00am – 11:00 pm Hours, M-Th 8:00am – 11:00pm Fri 8:00am – 8:00pm Sat10:00am – 8:00 pm Sun10:00am – 11:00 pm