Electrical Engineering 607

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Electrical Engineering 607

• Peggy White
• 331 D MacKimmie Library Block
• pwhite_at_ucalgary.ca
• 220-8385
• January 2006

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Library Services

• Interlibrary Loan No charge
• CISTI
• Regular document ordering
• Reference and Research Assistance
• Information Commons Desk
• In-depth assistance through office consultations

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Information Technology in the Information Commons

• Printing (blackwhite, color)
• Scanner
• Technology help, Research Assistance
• Library and Microsoft Office instruction
• Endnote, Reference Manager
• Formatting a thesis
• 260 workstations, plus docking ports for laptops
• Open 24/5 (Sunday 1000 AM Friday 1945 PM

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Resources

• Books (found in the Catalogue)
• Catalogue,
• Books 24/7, Safari Tech (digital collections of
  books)
• Journals (found in the catalogue)
• May be either online and print
• To research a topic use the Research Databases
• Conferences (Found in the catalogue)
• To research a topic use the Research Databases
• Theses
• UofC theses in Archives
• Proquest Digital Dissertations
• Patents

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Enhancing Your Search

• Selecting the right source
• Books, Journal articles, conference papers,
  theses
• Understanding the Research Database
• How many records, How often added, Subjects
• Record structure
• Choosing a search method
• keyword
• logical and proximity operators
• truncation, wildcard and autostemming
• controlled vocabulary/thesaurus
• Other searches

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Searching Using KeywordWhat does this mean?

• System searches for text words that represent the
  subject.
• Searches conducted in the following parts of the
  record
• Citation
• Abstract
• Descriptors taken from a thesaurus or subject
  heading list
• Identifiers provided by the authors
• Full text where available

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Search string
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Searching within fields

• Field searching directs the system to search
  within a specific part of the record
• Common choices include
• Author
• Title
• Abstract
• Descriptors or subject fields

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Combining subjectsusing Logical / Proximity
Operators

• AND OR NOT
• Proximity Operators
• Wn within a specified field
• atm networks win TI
• NEAR solar NEAR energy
• NEAR/ laser NEAR/4 diode (laser within 4 words
  of diode)
• quotation marks exact phrase
• ONEAR ( specifies exact order of terms)

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Logical / Proximity Operators INSPEC

• AND OR NOT
• ltingt ti
• Word or phrase must appear in a specific field
• ltnear/Ngt
• terms must appear in close proximity
• ltparagraphgt
• Terms must appear in the same paragraph
• ltphrasegt
• Terms must appear in the same phrase
• ltsentencegt
• terms must appear in the same sentence

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Auto Stemming, Truncation Wildcard

• Used to capture root word variations
• Common symbols include ?
• Truncation example
• Pollut would retrieve
• pollute, pollutes, polluted, pollutant,
  pollutants, pollution
• Wildcard example ? Replaces single character
• Anders?n would retrieve
• Anderson and/or Andersen

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Using the Thesaurus or Subject Heading List

• Indexer applied terms
• Chosen from a predetermined list of official
  terms
• Improves relevance and focus
• Found in the DESCRIPTOR FIELDS of a record

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Improving results

• Use precise words
• Think about when to keyword search
• Search in a specific field ie Title
• Combine 2 or more words
• Combine sets
• Use the Thesaurus

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Key databases

• IEEE Xplore (IEL) Full text database of IEEE and
  IEE journals and conference papers plus current
  IEEE standards.
• INSPEC   Indexes publications in the fields of
  physics, electrical engineering, electronics,
  telecommunications, computers, control
  technology, and information technology.    
• ACM Full text database of journals, transactions,
  conference proceedings and other materials in the
  field of computing and related disciplines.
• Web of Science Provides citation searching from
  known references to papers that cite it. Coverage
  is from 1975 onwards and includes high impact,
  high level research journals.
• Papers First Advanced Search index of conference
  papers presented worldwide
• Proquest Digital Dissertations Indexes theses
  worldwide. Coverage is from 1861 to present, full
  text where available