1. THE NCSU LIBRARIES the gateway to knowledge for the North Carolina State University community and partners

2. Organize Find Keep up

3. Find

4. Collection by the numbers  5 million volumes  500,000 e-books  80,000 serials, journals  65,000 electronic  $9,500,000 collection budget http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/collections

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

6. Get expert help Look for chat boxes throughout the library’s website : www.lib.ncsu.edu ! Know your Subject Librarian

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

8. LIBRARY RESEARCH

9. When to use

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

11. 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

12. 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)

13. Discover your Databases

14. TIPS FOR SEARCHING

15. 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

16. Use Boolean Searches http://lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/boolean.html

17. 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

18. Practice Database Searching

19. Organize

20. REFWORKS, A CITATION MANAGEMENT TOOL

21. 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

22. Commonly used Citation Tools http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tools-citation  Refworks – Provided by NC State  Endnote – Purchased by user  Zotero – Free access, storage costs  Mendeley – Free access, storage costs

23. 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

24. Practice Refworks

25. Keep up

26. 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)

27. Please Ask Us. We’re happy to help! Mohan Ramaswamy Librarian for Life Sciences mramasw@ncsu.edu (919) 513-3157