Resources & Tools for Physics Research

Geok Keeslbtgk@nus.edu.sg22 Jan 2014

Resources & Tools for Physics Research

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Outline

· Overview of library services & resources

· Ethical use of information & plagiarism

· Core research databases in Physics

· Tools for managing your research

Accessing NUS Libraries

Library card Library

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Graduate Students

· Loan entitlementMax 30 items & 1 RBR

· Loan periodMain shelves books: 28 daysRBR: 2hrs/Overnight

· 3 online renewals for main shelves books

· Study Carrels(4 hrs per loan)

· Document Delivery Services (DDS)

· Intra-library Loan

· Inter-library Loan

Library Privileges Additional Services

Demo

E-forms

Resources

Services

Overview of Library Resources

Library Resources

Nielsen, Michael A., & Chuang, Isaac L. (2010). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Demo

Citation of a book

Library Resources Citation of a book chapter

Chapter title

Book title Editors

YearAuthors

Fuka, V., Brechler, J. & Jirk, A. (2010). Modelling of

stratified and turbulent flow. In D. T. Mihailovic & C.

Gualtieri (Eds.), Advances in environmental fluid

mechanics (pp. 67-86). Singapore: World Scientific.

Library Resources

· Castro Neto, A. H.; Guinea, F.; Peres, N. M. R.; Novoselov, K. S.; Geim, A. K., The electronic properties of graphene. Rev. Mod. Phys. 2009, 81 (1), 109-162.

· A. C. Ferrari et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187401 (2006).

Journal title/name: “reviews of modern physics”

Citation of a journal article

Library Proxybookmarklet

http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet

· A browser plugin· Use it to quickly check if we have a subscription to the

journal & have full-text access to the article

Demo

Before Sep 2003 (Print)

After Sep 2003 (e-theses)

Purchased theses (Print, CD-ROM)

Theses & Dissertations

NUSMasters (by research)

& PhD theses

Non-NUS (Foreign)

LINC (Call nos. QC3 for Physics)

ScholarBank@NUS

Theses databases

Repositories of universities

LINC

Proquest dissertations & theses (Worldwide, UK & Ireland)

Guides: Physics, How do I find theses?

Springer theses

Demo

Can you return books at any of the NUS Libraries?Ans:

Main shelves books

RBR booksAlways return RBR books at the Loans Desk of the home library. Return through book chutes only if library is closed.

FAQs

Login IDs & passwords (FAQs )

Matriculation no. (e.g. A007111X)

& Library PIN· Check your library account

· Renew items online

· Reserve/Place hold

· Request items in closed stacks

· Borrow items at self check-out stations

NUSNET ID (e.g. A007111) & Password· Access NUS networked

services/resources, e.g. NUS mails, IVLE

· Log-in to library portal to use DDS, inter- & intra-library e-forms

· Access library subscribed e-resources (e.g. e-books, e-journals & databases)

Login Interfaces

NUSSTU/a007111

Ethical Use of Information & Plagiarism

Strictly for the purpose of research or study

Limitations for CopyingIn a nutshell, · Published books (> 10 pages)

Not more than one chapter or 10% of number of pages

· JournalsNot more than whole or part of one Article in a Journal unless the Articles relate to the same subject matter.

Copying of Library Materials

Electronic MaterialsNot more than· 10% of the total number of bytes in the Work; or

· 10% of the total number of words in the Work or 10% of the contents of the Work; or

· One chapter of the Work, where it exceeds any of the limits set out above

Copying of library materials

E-Resources Appropriate Use Policy

No excessive copying or downloading

Avoid Plagiarism

“In NUS, it is defined as the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.”Source: Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language Communication

NUS plagiarism prevention websitehttp://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism-prevention

Plagiarism prevention service

Citation & Bibliography

Two places to cite the references you have used(i) Author-date system

In-text citationWithin a sentence

Bibliography/References At the end of the document

e.g. APA style (American Psychological Association)

Citation & Bibliography

(ii) Numerical system

In-text citation

References

e.gs.ACS style (American Chemical Society)AIP style (American Institute of Physics)

Citation styles guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/citation

Tools for Managing Your Research

Comparison of reference management software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

Bibliography Management Software

Video

JabRef (LaTeX users)

• An open source reference management software (Free)

• Current version 2.9.2, http://jabref.sourceforge.net

• Java-based -- platform/OS independent

• Uses BibTeX files (*.bib) as its native format

• Provides a easy-to-use GUI for editing BibTeX entries

• Provides filters to import other file format (e.g. *.ris) and data from databases such as Medline, JSTOR, etc

EndNote

· Stores and organises references from many sources

· Inserts these references in a Word document

· Formats references automatically accordingto a predefined citation style

EndNote Guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/endnote

Demo

Ways to add references to EndNote library

EndNote Library

Direct export

Online search

Import PDF

Manual input

Import file

Core Research Databasesin Physics

Core Physics Databases

· Subscribed by NUS LibrariesINSPEC (Physics, electronics & computing, 1896 --)

Compendex (Engineering, 1969 --)

Web of Science (Multidisciplinary, 1900 --)

Scopus (Multidisciplinary, 1960 --)

· Preprints: arXiv.org

· Free: Google Scholar

Subject Guides: Physics

BREAK(5mins)

Web of Science

List search terms1 Form search

statement2 Choose a database3

Keywords, synonyms, alternative words

Web of Science Core Collection

One of the largest citation index52 million papers, 800 million citations

MultidisciplinaryOrganised into 250 categories covering Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities

Content: Journals, conference proceedings

Year coverage: 1900 -- present

Updated weekly

(Thomson Reuters, 2013)

Citation Network in Web of Science

2000

Times CitedCited

References

1999

2000

1988

2006

2004 2009

20051997

20002001

Related Records

Topic

Study of electronic structure of graphene using spectroscopic ellipsometry and ultrafast pump-probe techniques

Operators FunctionAND Results must contain all search terms (To narrow searches)

waves and interference

OR Result contains either of the search terms (To broaden searches)handphone or mobile phone or cellular phone

Truncation*, ?, $

enzym* enzyme, enzymes, enzymatic, enzymology (zero to many characters)

synthesi?e synthesise, synthesize (one character)colo$r color, colour (zero or one character)

Phrase searching “ ”

Search for exact phrase“electromagnetic field”

Proximity OperatorsNEAR, SAME

Used to specify search terms appearing in the same sentence.fiber NEAR composites

Parenthesis ( ) Use for grouping of words/phrases & to specify order of search

Managing search results

Read review articles for historical development of a subject

Refine by subject, etc

Identify high impact papers

Trace research progress using citations

Current Awareness

Consider subscribing to

Publisher & journal alerting services

Database alerting services e.g. Saved search alert

Citation alerts

RSS feeds

Journal Impact Factor

Average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year

Impact Factor = Cites in 2012 to 2010 & 2011 articlesNo. of articles published in 2010 &2011

(2012)

A journal having an Impact Factor of 2.5 means on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited two and a half times

Journal citation reports

Journal citation reports

Journal immediacy index

· Average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published

· Indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited

Immediacy Index no. of citations (in current year)

no. of articles (in current year)(in current year) =

Library Links in Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com

Importing to EndNote

Library Portal, http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg

• LINC (Library online catalogue), http://www.linc.nus.edu.sg • FindMore, http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com/

NUS Libraries guides, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/libraryhelp • Physics subject guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/physics • Library proxy bookmarklet, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet • How to search for theses?, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findthesis • FindMore guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findmore • E-Books guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/ebooks

Library FAQs, http://libfaq.nus.edu.sg/ ScholarBank@NUS, http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/ NUS plagiarism prevention website, http://

www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism-prevention

Links to resources

Postgraduate Student Resources (Compiled by NUS CDTL)http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/pg/resources/

EndNote training (Thomson Reuters)http://endnote.com/training

Web of Science training (Thomson Reuters)http://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining

Early Career Researchers (Elsevier)http://www.elsevier.com/early-career-researchers/home

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