1. A brief tourof Engineering resources - 2012

2. What we know aboutscholarly communication... Peer review journals 3. The Literature You 4. The Research ProcessDefine your topicWhat information do you need?Who would have written about it? Where? Find information Judge it is it reliable? relevant? does it point in new directions? is it enough? or do you still need more?Analyse and synthesiseCite all sources! 5. Resources weve used... GeoScience/GeoRef ASCE Standards websites MultiSearch 6. Getting Started 7. MultiSearch 8. Compendex 9. Web of Science 10. ScienceDirect 11. More databases 12. Open Access $ 13. Open Access Sources journals individual articles, papers, theses, etc aggregates researchrepostitories 14. Google Scholar 15. We evaluate results by... Look at title, abstract does it seem relevant? Authors who wrote it? Citations 16. Evaluating ResourcesIs itand... relevant?Who is it written for? basic/advanced?What kind of research is it? up-to-date? How far along is the research? What questions havent they answered yet? accurate? 17. Theses 18. Standards Online AS/NZS ASTM IEEE NFPA fire codes or Print collection AS BS ISO Eurocodes 19. Patents 20. Interloans(image: world map of libraries) 21. Weve cited with... APA Zotero 22. Citing 23. Using Endnote 24. Using Endnote 25. Using Endnote My Grand Chemical Engineering Research Project Thing 26. Weve learned... Databases and how to get citation webs That there are lots of different websites thatsearch from different websites, and its free! Many databases where I can find what Ineed and the way to get access them Use Google Scholar to find more How to find free journals once I have left uni 27. Weve learned... More efficient way of finding journal articles.Previously I had searched Google andindividual journal websites How to access various databases andjournals. The layout of the library website and howresources within UC repository can beaccessed. 28. Slides and tipshttp://library.canterbury.ac.nz/enci 29. Contact me Chat Meet Email