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Title: Library Resources Tutorial for Chemical


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Library Resources Tutorial for Chemical
Biomolecular Engineering Students
Karen Yap Engineering/Computer Science Resource
Team, Central Library 4th February 2009
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Slides Hidden during Tutorial
  • 2 This List
  • 15-22 More on Engineering Village 2
  • 24 Some Terms Used
  • 27 More on Scopus
  • 29-30 More on Science Citation Index Expanded
  • 33 Other Indexes for Medicine/Life Sciences
  • 41 Meaning of Numbers in Citation for Journal
    Article
  • 46 Demo on Getting Materials not in Library
  • 49-50 Demo on LION
  • 52 Writing Guides (Samples from Subject Guide)

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Objective of Tutorial
  • Help you do your research
  • Objective of Module CN4118 as taken from IVLE
    .. aims to provide students with training for
    scientific or technical research .."
  • This tutorial is designed to help you achieve THE
    objective

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Learning Outcomes
  • Be better at doing research
  • How to analyse your FYP research topic
  • use the best source/s (better than Google
    Scholar) to look for current information
  • Understand citations in reading list, etc.
  • Know more about Library services

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Outline
  • Doing research
  • How to analyse your FYP research topic
  • Indexes of current information
  • Demonstrations
  • Using Engineering Village 2
  • LION (Library Instruction ONline )
  • How to find full titles of journals from
    abbreviations
  • Other sources of information e.g. patents
  • Library services E-Forms
  • Subject guide in Library Portal
  • Understanding citations

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Research Topic
  • Fluoride concentration in water
  • and dental health

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Analyse your FYP Research Topic
2.. Think of alternative term/s for each concept
Fluoride fluorides, fluoridate,
fluoridation, fluorine, etc. Water
Dental tooth, teeth
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Analyse your FYP Research Topic
3. Formulate your search statement
(fluorid OR fluorine ) AND water AND
(dental OR tooth OR teeth)
Fluorid represents fluoride, fluorides,
fluoridate, fluoridation, etc.
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Boolean Operators
  • OR is used to indicate that either terms may be
    present
  • AND is used to indicate that both terms must be
    present

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More on Search Statement
  • If your search statement retrieves no records
  • E.g. you need articles on membrane reactors, but
    you cannot find hits
  • Use a broader concept/term like Bioreactor
    instead of specifically membrane reactor
  • Read articles and look through references listed
    at the end of such articles

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Learning Outcome 1 How to analyse your FYP
research topic Summary
  • Identify concepts
  • Think of alternative term/s for each concept
  • Formulate your search statement using
  • Boolean Operators
  • for truncation
  • Search under broader concept if necessary

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Learning Outcomes
  • Be better at doing research
  • How to analyse your FYP research topic
  • use the best source/s (better than Google
    Scholar) to look for current information
  • Understand citations in reading list, etc.
  • Know more about Library services

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Sources of Information
  • Current
  • Last week
  • Last month
  • Last year
  • Conference papers
  • Journal articles

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Main Index for Engineering (General)
  • Engineering Village 2 (EV2)
  • Scans over 8,000 journals, conference proceedings
  • Has over 16 million records
  • Covers over 190 disciplines includes related
    fields in science and management

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Engineering Village 2
  • Provides links to
  • USPTO
  • Full text patents from USA
  • Esp_at_cenet
  • Full text patents from Europe and
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty
  • Scirus
  • scientific research tool

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Engineering Village 2
  • Five important index databases are Chimica,
    CBNB, Compendex, Inspec and NTIS
  • Can be searched individually or together
  • Some, i.e. NOT all have links to full text
  • Updated weekly
  • Database has Search Alert service by email
  • Can email engineer/librarian for help

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Engineering Village 2
  • Does analysis like
  • No. of articles an author wrote on a particular
    subject (If an author wrote 10 articles on your
    subject, befriend him/her)
  • Author affiliation
  • (Useful when you choose university/institution
    for postgrad studies or employment)
  • No. of articles found in a particular
    journal/publisher (Useful when you want to
    publish your work )

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CBNB Chemical Business NewsBase (1985- )
  • Indexes articles from 300 core trade journals,
    newspapers, company newsletters/interim and
    annual reports, books, market research reports,
    and press releases

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Chimica (1970-)
  • Indexes articles from over 600 journals
  • Covers chemistry and chemical engineering, with
    emphasis on applied and analytical chemistry

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Compendex (1969-)
  • Indexes articles from over 5,000 journals, papers
    in conference proceedings, chapters in books,
    technical papers, etc.
  • Over nine million records
  • Covers topics in the all fields of engineering,
    as well as related fields in science and
    management. Over 190 disciplines covered

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Inspec (1969-)
  • Produced by the Institution of Electrical
    Engineers
  • Covers physics, electrical engineering,
    electronics, communications, control engineering,
    computers and computing, IT, etc.
  • 3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings
  • over eight million records

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NTIS (National Technical Information Service )
1899-
  • Database from the U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Over two million records
  • Includes unclassified reports from influential
    U.S. and international government agencies e.g.
    NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S.
    Department of Defense

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Term Used in EV2
  • Controlled Vocabulary
  • Consistent/standard subject terms used to
    describe the content of a document.
  • E.g. mobile handsets for mobile phones,
    handphones, cell phones, cellular phones
  • Useful once you find a good hit, look at the
    standard terms used to find other good hits.

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Some Terms Used
  • MeSH or Medical Subject Headings in PubMed
  • E.g. Female for articles on girls, ladies,
    women
  • CAS Registry Numbers
  • IC No. for chemicals
  • American Chemical Society
  • E.g.Number for fluorine is 7782-41-4

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Demonstration
  • Engineering Village 2

DEMO
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Main Indexes for Science (General)
  • Scopus
  • 29 million records
  • Covers life sciences, physical sciences,
    engineering, health sciences, social sciences and
    business

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More on Scopus
  • Scopus
  • Indexes journals, conference proceedings, trade
    publications and quality web sources
  • Does citation tracking. A researcher can find out
    how many times a particular article has been cited

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Main Indexes for Science (General)
  • Science Citation Index Expanded(via Web of
    Science), 1980-
  • 150 mainly scientific disciplines
  • Covers about 5,900 high impact research journals

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More on Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Features included citation index. Provides use of
    the Analyze tool for search results
  • Allows you to navigate
  • forward in time using Times Cited to discover the
    impact a document has had on current research
  • backward in time using References to uncover the
    research that influenced an author's work
  • Measure the influence of colleagues' or
    competitors' work
  • Follow the path and direction of today's hottest
    ideas and concepts

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More on Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Ranking journals
  • Related records search capability

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Index for Chemistry
  • SciFinder Scholar (SFS)
  • Chemical Abstracts (1967-), etc.
  • Has over 19 million records from journal articles
    and patents
  • More than 35 million chemical substances can be
    searched by chemical name, chemical structure,
    CAS Registry Numbers, formula.
  • Offers chemical reaction searching

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Main Indexes for Medicine/Life Sciences
  • PubMed (1950-)
  • Over 17 million records of journal articles
  • Medical sciences
  • BIOSIS (1926-)
  • 18 million records
  • Covers about 5,500 journals, conference reports,
    books, and patents
  • Life sciences

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Other Indexes for Medicine/Life Sciences
  • Zoological Record (1978-)
  • 1.8 million records
  • Covers 5,000 journals, plus book chapters,
    meetings, etc.
  • Animal biology
  • BioEngineering Abstracts (1993-)
  • Over 163,000 records
  • Covers journals, conference proceeding,
    directories, and other sources
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
    (1967-)
  •  About 1.8 million records
  • Over 6000 journals, meetings, reports, etc.

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Scopus
  • Scopus covers journals covered by
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  • PubMed

SCIE
PubMed
SCOPUS
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Why SCIE PubMed when there is Scopus?
  • SCIEs citation index feature covers over 100
    years. Scopuss covers less than 15 years
  • SCIE is more selective covers ONLY high impact
    journals
  • SCIE ranks journals and has other features not
    found in Scopus
  • PubMed is free

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Other Sources of Information
  • For patents SciFinder Scholar and others
  • For standards various
  • For theses Proquest Digital Dissertations

DEMO Subject Guide
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Learning Outcome 2Use the best source/s (better
than Google Scholar) to look for current
information Summary
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Learning Outcomes
  • Be better at doing research
  • How to analyse your FYP research topic
  • use the best source/s (better than Google
    Scholar) to look for current information
  • Understand citations in reading list, etc.
  • Know more about Library services

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Decoding Citations
  • Reference
  • Brown, John 2003. Chemical hazards In Safety in
    factories , 2nd ed. 20-30. London Spon Press.
  • Robinson, Alan. 2004. Effects of thermal forces.
    Chemical engineering , v 97, no. 1, 2004, p
    46-52.
  • Material Type

Book Chapter
Journal article
When checking LINC, search by Title, key in words
in yellow
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How to Find Full Title of Journal from its
Abbreviation
  • E.g. MRS Bull
  • Move mouse to E-Resources
  • Choose EJournals
  • scroll down a bit to Useful Links
  • Choose Journal Abbreviations
  • http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/ecoll/ej/ejabbrev.h
    tml
  • Click on third link
  • Canada Institute for Scientific and
    Technical Information (CISTI)
  • Key in MRS Bull, click Search
  • Another good link is the sixth link
  • Institute of Science Information (ISI)

DEMO
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Meaning of Numbers in Citation
  • MRS Bull 32 6 (2007) pp. 87-95

32 6 (2007) pp. 87-95
32 means volume 32
6 means number or issue 6
pp. 87-95 means pages 87-95
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Understanding Less Common References
  • Reference
  • US5,719,665. Yamazoe Feb17,1998
  • BS EN ISO 2912008 Plastics. Standard atmospheres
    for conditioning and testing
  • Material Type

US Patent
British Standard
  • Check free website at USPTO (US Patent and
    Trademark Office) Web Patent Databases 
  • Check British Standards Online (database bought
    by Library)

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Learning Outcomes
  • Be better at doing research
  • How to analyse your FYP research topic
  • use the best source/s (better than Google
    Scholar) to look for current information
  • Understand citations in reading list, etc.
  • Know more about Library services

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Library Services Loan Entitlement
4TH Year, Honours Graduate Students 30 items
  • Materials
  • RBR
  • Main Shelves book
  • Closed Stacks book
  • Bound periodical
  • Closed Stacks periodical
  • Loan Period
  • 2 Hours/Overnight
  • 4 weeks
  • 1 day



Online renewals twice
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Library Services Via E-Forms
  • Request materials NOT in Library
  • Books
  • Parts of book or journal issue
  • Student advisory service

DEMO
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Materials NOT in the Library
  • Via E-Forms after login
  • For books or theses, request the Library to buy
  • For copy of journal article, use Document
    Delivery Service (limited to three a year for
    Year 4 students)
  • Requests to be forwarded to Supervisor for
    approval then onward to Library
  • requesters will incur charges if they do not
    collect their requested articles within a month
  • For more information, please email
    ddslib_at_nus.edu.sg or call 6516-3472

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Student Advisory Service
Emailaskalib_at_nus.edu.sg clbyapym_at_nus.edu.sg  
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Other Library Services
  • LION (Library Instruction ONline ) Item 6)
    How to Search Databases
  • Item 9) EndNote Web
  • Subject Guide

DEMO
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LION (Library Instruction ONline )
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LION (Library Instruction ONline )
Read before you start doing your research
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Writing Guides(Samples from Subject Guide)
  • Instructions on format of thesis as given in
    Research Handbook for Engineering for Masters
    PhD students http//www.eng2.nus.edu.sg/proj/eei
    ntranet/student/Grad/Handbook_4Jan07.pdf (p.
    22-28)

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Writing Guides(Samples from Subject Guide)
  • Good call numbers to browse
  • T11e.g. T11 Lan 2008 Technical communication
  • TA158.5e.g. TA158.5 Sor 2006 An engineer's
    practical guide to technical communication
  • PN171 Fooe.g. PN171 Foo.Li 2006 Cite right a
    quick guide to citation styles--MLA, APA,
    Chicago, the sciences, professions, and more

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Subject Guide
  • Bookmark as a Favourite
  • Section on
  • Library Instructions Tips
  • Whole tutorial (HIDDEN SLIDES) and more
  • Databases
  • you can access EV2, etc. from here
  • get help on how to use databases from here
  • Reference sources
  • Research Citation (writing guides) more
  • Theses
  • Patents Standards

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Learning Outcome 4Learn about Library Services
Summary
  • Library services via E-Forms
  • LION
  • Subject Guide
  • How to find whole tutorial
  • Etc.

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