1. Navigating the Literature of Your Field With a little help from University Libraries Janet Fransen Engineering Librarian fransen@umn.edu

2. How do engineering researchers communicate their results?

5. Sources Cited

6. Other Sources

7. Masters Theses Dissertations N=10 N=47

8. Places to Look Library Catalog (MNCAT) Licensed Databases (Compendex, Inspec) Professional Society Databases (IEEE Xplore) Publisher Web sites (Springer, Elsevier) Public Databases (Google Scholar) …and more

10. Starting Point: www.lib.umn.edu

11. MNCAT: Items we own (or license)

17. www.lib.umn.edu/howto/ebooks

19. Licensed Databases

21. Licensed Databases for EE Inspec Compendex Web of Science Search together as Engineering Village

28. But what if we don’t have it?

29. Professional Societies IEEE (IEEE Xplore) –IEEE and IET journals, transactions, magazines, conferences, standards SPIE (SPIE Digital Library) –Technical papers from SPIE journals and conferences –Optics and Photonics

30. Professional Society Databases Look and act just like other subject databases Limited to content published by or made available to that society Find them in the A-Z list or on a Subject page

35. What about Google Scholar? Great breadth Depth varies Great for finding obscure things like technical reports of papers from proceedings that weren’t published Great for finding related work by an author

36. F. Liu, R. R. Yu, A. M. Young, J. P. Doyle, X. Wang, L. Shi, K.-N. Chen, X. Li, D. A. Dipaola, D. Brown, C. T. Ryan, J. A.Hagan, K. H. Wong, M. Lu, X. Gu, N. R. Klymko, E. D. Perfecto, A. G. Merryman, K. A. Kelly, S. Purushothaman, S. J. Koester, R. Wisnieff, and W. Haensch, “A 300-mm wafer-level three-dimensional integration scheme using tungsten through-silicon via and hybrid Cu-adhesive bonding,” IEDM Tech. Digest, 599-602 (2008), Proceedings of the 2008 International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 15-17, 2008.

38. Now that you’ve found it… How do you keep track of it?

39. Citation Managers RefWorks –Free to U of M students, faculty, staff –Web-based –Create an account at our site Zotero –Free to anyone –Firefox-based UI, local database that can sync to the Web –Download from Zotero.org

40. Citation Managers Mendeley –Free –Great for managing and annotating PDFs Most databases support export to several citation managers

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42. Library Hacks

51. What else do I do? Select books and subscriptions –Suggestions? Let me know. Teach workshops –Public workshops listed online –Custom workshop? Contact me. Work with my colleagues to improve services –Suggestions? Let me know.

52. What else do I do? Consult on subject-specific questions –Not sure where to start a lit search? –Can’t track down an elusive citation? Consult on managing information –How to add your papers to our institutional repository (conservancy.umn.edu) –How to keep current and organize what you collect

53. What else do I do? Work with faculty and instructors to incorporate library resources into classes

55. Contact me at: Fransen@umn.edu 612-624-7446 Website: z.umn.edu/umjanlib Office hours: Thursdays 3-4 in the Student Center