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Library Resources for Computer Science/Physics
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With focus on INSPEC

• 23 Aug 2006 (Wednesday), 2.00pm
• by Kan Sok Cheng, Senior Librarian, Science
  Library

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This session will cover

• What is in NUS Libraries Collection
• How do I Find Information in NUS Libraries
• http//libpweb1.nus.edu.sg/lion/s/
• Is Google sufficient?
• Type of resources you should check.
• Demo on INSPEC

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NUS Libraries Collection
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Connect to NUS website

• E-resources guide for Science and Computing

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Google vs E-resources Databases
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E-resources Databases vs Google Scholar

• E-resources Databases
• Search for full text
• Seamless access to subscribed full text articles
• Subject specific
• Results are from peer reviewed journals

• Google/Google Scholar
• Search for full text
• No direct access to full article that requires
  subscription
• Not subject specific
• Results are from any articles available online.
  Reliable?

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How to evaluate a Website?

• Details at http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/s/evaluw
  eb.html
• A. Authority
• Know the distinction between Webmaster and
  author.
• Check the domain to determine what institution
  publishes the document. Is the domain a preferred
  one?
• B. Accuracy
• Are you able to contact the author of the
  document to verify details, if necessary?
• C. Objectivity and Purpose
• Determine if the document is a mask for
  advertising. If it is, the information may be
  biased.
• E. Currency and Maintenance
• Is the page outdated? Maintained?

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SCIRUS search engine for scientific information

• http//www.scirus.com/srsapp/
• Scirus currently covers over 250 million
  science-related Web pages
• No access to journal articles that need
  subscriptions
• You may need to access these via NUS Libraries
  portal.
• You would still need to evaluate if the results
  obtain are reliable.

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E-Resources Databases

• Online Guides/Help at
• Library Instruction Online
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/d/

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E-resources Databases
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E-resources Databases
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E-resources Databases
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Inspec on EV2

• By Institution of Engineering and Technology
  (merger of IEE (Institution of Electrical
  Engineers) and the IIE (The Institution of
  Incorporated Engineers).
• From 1969-
• Updated weekly

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Inspec - Subjects
Source INSPEC training notes
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INSPEC - sources

• Others include
• Book / Book Chapter
• Reports
• Patents (1969-76)
• Dissertations

Source INSPEC training notes
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INSPEC - Publications from 80 Countries
Percent
Source INSPEC training notes
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Inspec Top 24 Publishers

• Academic Press
• ACM
• AIP
• Allerton Press
• American Geophys. Unio
• APS
• Astron. Soc. Pacific
• Elsevier
• IEE
• IEEE
• IOP Publishing
• Inst. Electron. Inf. Commun. Eng.

• Japanese Journal Appl. Physics
• Kluwer Academic Publishers
• MAIK Nauka/ Interperiodica Publishing
• Opt. Soc. America
• Plenum
• Science Press
• SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng.
• Springer-Verlag
• Taylor Francis
• Univ. of Chicago Press
• Wiley
• World Scientific

Source INSPEC training notes
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Inspec Top 24 Publishers
Online access to NUS subscribed journals

• Academic Press
• ACM
• AIP
• Allerton Press
• American Geophys. Unio
• APS
• Astron. Soc. Pacific
• Elsevier
• IEE
• IEEE
• IOP Publishing
• Inst. Electron. Inf. Commun. Eng.

• Japanese Journal Appl. Physics
• Kluwer Academic Publishers
• MAIK Nauka/ Interperiodica Publishing
• Opt. Soc. America
• Plenum
• Science Press
• SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng.
• Springer-Verlag
• Taylor Francis
• Univ. of Chicago Press
• Wiley
• World Scientific

Source INSPEC training notes
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Compendex on EV2

• Produced by Engineering Information, Inc, IEEE
• citations to articles in engineering related
  fields in science and management.
• Index to journal articles, conference
  proceedings, reports and books.
• with full text links to IOP, AIP, APS journals,
  IEEE, etc.
• Update weekly.

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Tip for searching

• New subject area
• Start broad search using the most important
  concept, look at no of results, use another one
  to narrow further
• Subject area in existence for a long time
• Search by using all the important concepts
• Analyze the results pick out the records where
  the concept is the main focus.

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Demo topic

• Consumer behavior of electronic commerce over the
  internet
• On INSPEC via EV2

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Demo topic Inspec

• Nanostructure semiconductors in thin film 
• Pick out the conference papers. Journals articles
  may have seen it from Web of Science
• Refine treatment General Review

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Exercise for INSPEC

• How do you do a broad search to retrieve as many
  records on the topic multimodal biometrics
  methods for extracting human features? How many
  records?
• Answer
• Do a topic search for multimodal biometrics
• Look at the subject Feature Extraction (63)

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Exercise for INSPEC

• Topic Data Mining of gene expression
• Which author publishes the most papers in this
  topic and which institution is he from when these
  papers were written?
• Answer Azuaje, F. from Dublin Univ., Ireland
  for the same insitution entered many different
  ways.

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Exercise for INSPEC

• Topic Data Mining of gene expression
• How many papers were published by authors from
  NUS School of Computing?
• Answer Select Singapore and Include
• 7 records

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E-Resources Databases

• CiteSeer.IST
• A free citation index for computer science and
  technology disciplines.
• It uses search engines to locate papers on the
  Web, indexes the paper including the citations.
• Papers includes technical reports, conference
  proceedings as well as literature in "Postscript"
  and "PDF" formats
• http//citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/cs

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E-Resources Databases

• Consider these
• Computer Abstracts International Database
• Computer and Communications Security Abstracts
• Computer and Information Systems Abstracts

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E-Resources Databases

• Foreign Thesis
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations
• citations and abstracts of doctoral dissertations
  and master's theses submitted to over 1,000 North
  American graduate schools, European and
  Australian universities
• Index to theses for higher degrees by the
  Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 
• includes works accepted for higher degrees by the
  universities of Great Britain, Ireland, and the
  Council for National Academic Awards.
• covers theses accepted from 1970 to 2001

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CRCnetBASE Handbooks Online
Complete list of handbooks, https//libproxy1.nus
.edu.sg/login?urlhttp//www.crcnetbase.com/
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Difference between Subject Index and Journal
Publisher Database
IEEE Xplore Articles published by IEEE

• Subject specific Database
• INSPEC
• Web of Science

ScienceDirect Articles published by Elsevier
Science
Articles published by Other Publishers
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Guides on research writing

• Writing for computer science / Justin Zobel.
  London New York Springer, c2004. 2nd. Ed.
  (T11 Zob 2004) (SC Books)
• Writing research papers a complete guide / J.
  D. Lester. 11th ed. Longman, 2005. (LB2369 Les)
  (SC Reference 9)
• Writing science through critical thinking / M. F.
  Moriarty. Jones Bartlett Pub., 1997. (T11 Mor)
  (SC Books)
• Your research project a step-by-step guide for
  the first-time researcher / Nicholas Walliman.
  2nd ed. London SAGE, 2005. (LB2369 Wai 2005 )
  (CL Books)

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Tips for Literature Search

• Be patient
• Be systematic
• Keep proper records of sources checked
• Record the full details of citations found
• Write clearly
• Ask librarian for help if you have any problems

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