Project I Seminar Library and Internet Search

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Project I Seminar Library and Internet Search

• By Hanim Salleh
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• College of Engineering,
• Universiti Tenaga Nasional
• 7 July 2001

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Presentation Outline

• Unitens Library collections and service
• Reference Sources
• Internet Sources
• Relevant Websites
• Engineering Search Engine
• Design Standards
• Professional Bodies

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UNITEN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

• Nearly all of the 50,000 volumes of books,
  journals, printed and non-printed materials
• Library of Congress classification system .
• Collection Open CollectionReference
  CollectionReserved Book Collection (RBC)Journal
  CollectionAVA CollectionSpecial Collection

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Library of Congress Classification

• A ,B -- GENERAL WORKS, PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY.
  RELIGIONC ,D -- AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY,
  HISTORY GENERAL AND OLD WORLDE F -- HISTORY
  AMERICAG, H -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY.
  RECREATION, SOCIAL SCIENCESJ , K -- POLITICAL
  SCIENCE, LAWL ,M -- EDUCATION, MUSIC AND BOOKS
  ON MUSICN. P -- FINE ARTS , LANGUAGE AND
  LITERATUREQ, R -- SCIENCE, MEDICINES , T --
  AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGYU , V, Z -- MILITARY
  SCIENCE, NAVAL SCIENCE, LIBRARY SCIENCE

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Books in all subject areas which is open access
and may be borrowed Class No. A - M (3rd
FLOOR)Class No. N - Z (4rd FLOOR)
OPEN COLLECTION
REFERENCE COLLECTION (2nd Floor)Dictionaries,
encyclopedias, directories, handbooks,
guidebooks, atlases, yearbooks, bibliographies,
indexes and abstracts, standards, gazetteers
For reference only
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RESERVED BOOK COLLECTION (RBC - fifth floor)

• Heavily used textbooks, periodicals articles and
  course notes assigned as required reading by
  lecturers.
• Complete sets of past year examination question
  papers and syllabuses
• Course guides and examination papers from
  overseas professional institutions Manuals and
  course guides

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JOURNAL/SERIAL COLLECTION

• The most important, contain current information
• 1.Hardcopies
• current and bound journals
• on the second floor and are for reference only.
• 2. CD-ROM format (available through our Campus
  Network)
• UNITEN Library Members only terminals (2nd
  Floor).
• 3. Online Databases Journals.

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JOURNALS ENGINEERING

• Journal of fluid engineering
• Journal of manufacturing science and engineering
• Engineering structures
• Journal of materials in civil engineering
• Journal of structural engineering
• Journal of environmental engineering
• Journal of hydraulic engineering
• Journal of hydrology engineering
• Journal of energy engineering
• Journal of engineering mechanics
• Electrical engineering journal
• Engineering with computers

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JOURNALS Other Related Area

• ENERGY
• Asian energy bulletin
• Asian energy bulletin
• Asian energy journal
• Asean energy review
• Journal of energy resources technology from ASME
• Journal of energy engineering
• VIBRATION
• Journal of vibration and acoustics
• Journal of sound and vibration

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On-line Databases

• IEEE Explore Campus The new features of IEL
  Online
• Engineering Village
• Campus Engineering journals, abstracts, full-text
  options, 1980--date
• NSTP E-Media
• current news from NSTP group of publications.
• Kompass.com
• Campus Access information on companies, key
  products.
• Tiara
• source of information for the businessmen,
  students, their parents and teachers, scientists,
  engineers and researchers and the professionals
  alike

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On-Trial Databases

• IDEALIBRARY
• Applied sciences, Biomedical sciences, Economic,
  Business, Law Finance, Math., Engineering, Life
  science, Physical enviromental, Psychology and
  Social sciences
• Grolier Encyclopedia Online
• General databases consist of Encyclopedia
  Americana Online, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  Online, The New Book of Knowledge Online, Nueva
  Enciclopedia Cumbre en linea and The New Book of
  Popular Science. Abstract and Full-text options.

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On-Trial Databases (Cont.)

• Schmidt Periodicals GmbH
• Back-date journals and serials. Provides more
  than 2 million back volumes of periodicals from
  all over the world.
• Information Quest
• scientific, technical, medical, and business
  full-text journals
• Springer Online Databases
• Provides full-text journals of Springer
  Publications

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On-Trial Databases (Cont.)

• ProQuest Digital Dissertations
• Provide disertations available in the PDF Format.
• National Information Services Corporation (NISC)
• natural and social sciences, arts and
  humanities. Some titles provide comprehensive
  coverage of particular geographic regions, such
  as Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia or the
  Arctic Antarctic.

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Reference sources
On papers (Journals, books etc)
Digital Information (Internet, hyperbook etc)
Objective/ Focus best resources to meet the
information need. provide facts and statistics
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Resources Evaluation Guide
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Resources Evaluation Guide
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Internet Resources

• Gateway Sites
• by professionals, high quality web-based
  resources. e.g WWW Virtual library
  vlib.org/Overview.html
• Librarians Index to the Internet (www.lii.org)
• Direct Method Entering Uniform Resource Locators
  (URLs)
• Subject Directory Method general according to
  subject
• Search Engine Method search by keyword
• Meta Search searches several engines
  simultaneously should only be used after a
  search as been narrowed and refined.

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Bias/Objectivity (.gov - government, .edu
-educational, .com-commercial, .mil-military,
and .org-organization)
Authority who? contact link?
Web Site Evaluation
Purpose audience?
Currency last revision.?
Content unique? Links only? Facts/opinion?
Reviewed?
Organization /Ease to use links work?load quickly?
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Type of Search Search Engine
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Engineering Sites

• Patent Search
• www.uspto.gov
• www.patents.ibm.com
• Engineering sites
• www.icrank.com - for ME
• www.vlme.com - virtual Library ME
• www.eevl.ac.uk - general engineering
• Unit Conversions

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EI CompendexWeb - Engineering Index Online.
NSSN A National Resource for Global Standards,
an ANSI-sponsored service. ASCE's Civil
Engineering Database - 80,000 ASCE records since
1975. EELS - Electronic Engineering Library,
Sweden EEVL E-journal Search Engine - Search
150 Full Text Journals. ICE - Internet
Connections for Engineering from Cornell U. NASA
Tech Reports Servers - search several data bases.
NASA Thesaurus Recent Advances in Manufacturing
-one-stop information service on world class
manufacturing and research. U.K. Engineering
Search Engine - aproduct of EEVL (Edinburgh
Engineering Virtual Library) Measurement
Converter via Java Engineering, Scientific Unit
Converter (links provided by UNITEN library)
Engineering Search Engine
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Design Standards

• NIST (National Institute of Standarads and
  Technology) www.nist.gov
• ANSI (American National Standard institute)
  web.ansi.org/public/std_info.html
• ASTM (Ame. Standards of testing Materials)
  www.astm.org
• NSSN (National resource for Global Standard)
  www.nsss.org
• Global Engineering Documents standard center-
  //global.his.com/
• Standards center www.document-center. com

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Professional societies

• The Institution of Engineers Malaysia
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
  Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE)
• NACE www.nace.org
• NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Assoc.)
  www.nema.org

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Professional Societies (cont.)

• Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc
• http//www.sem.org/
• International Gas Turbine Institute
• http//www.asme.org/igti/
• Fluid Power Society - the international
  organization for fluid power and related motion
  control professionals http//www.ifps.org/
• materials research society http//www.mrs.org/

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The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM)
www1.jaring.my/iem/
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National Society of Professional Engineers
www.nspe.org/
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IMechE www.imeche.org.uk/
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
www.asme.org
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ASHRAE -American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
www.ashrae.org
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Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE) www.sae.org
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Materials Research Society
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Thank you

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