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

2. Services

4. Important dates

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

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

9. E-Thesis
Print Book
E-Book

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

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

12. E- Book Online Access

13. E-books databases

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

18. Engineering Databases
List of Civil
Engineering Databases

19. Environmental Sciences Resources

20. Water Resources

21. You may browse or search a specific journal title or proceeding

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

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

24. Journal Assessment Tools

25. Journal Assessment Databases

31. Cited By
Databases &
finding Influential
Authors

32. 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

33. Cited By
Searching Using Scopus

37. Select Cited by
to organize by
highly cited first

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

43. H-Index of author

44. 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

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

51. 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

52. full text
You can
limit by
subject
or date

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

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

59. 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,…)

62. 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.

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

65. Table of Contents Alert Saved Searches Alert Google Scholar Alert
Alerts
Table of Contents Alert
Saved Searches Alert
Google Scholar Alert

66. To set an alert
you have to Register

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

71. Important Links Engineering Library
Civil & Environmental Engineering Libguide

74. Contact Me @: Engineering Library – Ext: 2630
Working Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8:00am-5:00pm