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Your Research @ NTU Library Resource Discovery Workshop

For CEE Research Students 12th Aug 2013

Lim Kong Meng Engineering Librarian for Civil Engineering & Maritime Studies Email : [email protected] ; Tel : (65) 6316 8645 Civil engineering Subject Room

Lena Sam Engineering Librarian for Environmental Engineering Email:[email protected] ; Tel: (65) 6790 6711 Environmental engineering Subject Room

RamaRavikumar Ramakrishnan Engineering Librarian for Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Email : [email protected] ; Tel : (65) 6513 8675 Mechanical engineering Subject Room

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Information Searching Skills


Keywords represent the major concepts in your search. Be sure to consider alternative spellings, synonyms, acronyms when selecting your keywords. E.g. Hand phone --> mobile phone, cell phone etc. or Mass Rapid Transit --> metro, subway, etc.

Example: Rock caverns granite cave, underground, rock structures

E.g. Research topic: Development of rock caverns

granite caves rock structures 2.

2. granite caves AND underground

Examples 1. granite caves OR rock structures

granite caves

rock structures

granite caves

1.

3. (granite caves OR rock structures) NOT thesis

thesis

3.

4. Singapore AND (granite caves OR underground OR rock structures)

granite caves

underground rock structures

Singapore 4.

Using Boolean connectors or operators in Block Building Search Strategy

OR: broadens searches AND, NOT: narrows searches



rock structures



More Search Tips

Use quotation marks “ ” (single or double) for phrase searching - ‘punching shear’ [Note: single for NTU Library Catalogue; double for Google]

Do note that there is no common standard for symbols. Look at the help pages of each database to ensure the correct use of the various symbols.

Use wildcard symbols to replace character(s) - # * ? organi#ation retrieves: organization & organisation wom?n retrieves: woman & women

Use truncation symbols - * $ ! ? - nano$ retrieves: nanotechnology, nanoscience, nanostructure,

nanoscale, nanochemistry, nanomaterials …

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Books Print

Journals eBooks

AV

Library Catalogue

Research Articles Patents

Conference Proceedings

Standards Databases

eJournals A-Z List

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Books, e-books, journal articles and other publications >>> One Search

DR-NTU FYPs

Theses

One Search


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Locating library resources

One Search


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Library Catalogue


BOOKS

E-BOOKS

L I B R A R Y C A T A L O G U E Enhanced record

L I B R A R Y C A T A L O G U E

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Via E-book Collections or Series WILEY ONLINE

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/ebooks/series/Pages/Engineering.aspx


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E-JOURNALS

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Digital Repository-NTU Aims to capture, store and preserve the intellectual output of NTU. The repository contains open access collections as well as restricted collections which are accessible only to the NTU Community and require user authentication to view the full text.

Searching Databases


ASCE Research Library

1. Search

2. Results

3. PDF

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Research Library provides access to all full-text electronic articles from ASCE journals and conference proceedings.

NOTE: ASCE Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is free in the Internet.

Searching Databases

Engineering Village 2 leading bibliographic databases COMPENDEX : > 5,000 journals, conferences and technical

reports; 175 disciplines within engineering and applied science; coverage from 1884

INSPEC : physics, electrical, electronics and control engineering, and information technology and related subject areas; from 1969

Other contents include: Referex - E-book reference collection NTIS – National Technical Information service, database for

accessing unclassified reports from influential U.S. and international government agencies.


Searching Databases

• Search by Subject/Title/Abstract


Engineering Village

Same as truncation

Searching Databases


Engineering Village

Internet resources


http://scholar.google.com Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts

and technical reports from all broad areas of research

http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Search multidisciplinary resources including Physical

Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math, etc.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/ Access to the very best Web resources of Science,

Engineering and Technology for education and research

http://www.globalspec.com/ Registered for product & supplier news,

engineering news

http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ Find resources in engineering, mathematics and

computing

http://www.scirus.com/ Comprehensive science-specific search engine on the

Internet; covers science-related Web pages.Produced by Elsevier

Some recommended search engines & subject gateways

http://scholar.google.com/http://scholar.google.com/http://infomine.ucr.edu/http://infomine.ucr.edu/http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/http://www.globalspec.com/http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/


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Work with Internet Search Engine to retrieve NTU subscribed full text articles or e-books from the Internet

Full text @ NTU

Seamless access to NTU subscribed articles

From any internet search engine search results list

Full text

Article abstract

NTU Library home page > Tools & Guides > full text @NTU Library How to install?

Install library Toolbar

Add to Browser Favourites

or

Apply


http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/Pages/fulltextNTUL.aspx

Google scholar > Settings > Library links > enter “Nanyang” > Find Library > Save

Google Scholar search results list

Full text

Findit @ NTU

How to configure?

Seamless access to NTU subscribed articles

Work with Google Scholar to retrieve NTU subscribed full text articles or e-books from the Internet


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