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Use the Library & its Resources to Your Advantage

Use the Library & its Resources to Your Advantage. MAE 4310 Introduction to Automatic Control Library Introduction Library Research Assignment Fall 2013. Librarian contact: SEL Reference Desk Key Assignment –

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Use the Library & its Resources to Your Advantage

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  1. Use the Library & its Resources to Your Advantage • MAE 4310 Introduction to Automatic Control • Library Introduction • Library Research Assignment • Fall 2013 • Librarian contact: SEL Reference Desk • Key Assignment – • Survey the literature using library resources, formulate a solution to the engineering problem given in class. Summarize a specific journal article relevant to the problem jointly with the solution in form of a written report. Science & Engineering Library Nedderman Hall Basement MAE4310 Subbarao

  2. Searching for technical papers • Some databases provide full-text of articles and some are to be used in conjunction with another database • Using UTA Library Resources • Databases • Aerospace & High Technology Database • AIAA Online Technical Information: Meeting Papers • Engineering Village (Compendex) • DTIC Public STINET • NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) • Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) • IEEE Xplore • ScienceDirect MAE4310 Subbarao

  3. Some databases will provide full-text of articles and some are to be used in conjunction with another database • Especially true for • Aerospace & High Technology Database • AIAA Online Technical Information: Meeting Papers • Engineering Village potentially links to full-text in • IEEE Xplore • ScienceDirect MAE4310 Subbarao

  4. Aerospace & High Technology Database • Coverage: 1962-present; (some older documents; some sources full text) • Known as the Aerospace Database, the online version of International Aerospace Abstracts. Indexes AIAA meeting papers, journal articles, reports from NASA and other US and international agencies. Covers basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. MAE4310 Subbarao

  5. Engineering Village (Compendex) • Coverage: 1969-present • Some full-text availability • Features • Create personal account • Export citations to RefWorks bibliographic citation manager • Email alerts MAE4310 Subbarao

  6. DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center) MAE4310 Subbarao

  7. UTA Libraries Online – Navigating to these databases Library website Places to know MAE4310 Subbarao

  8. Finding Electronic Journals with Full-text MAE4310 Subbarao

  9. Things to Keep in Mind • Do not limit your research to full-text database only • The citation or citation & abstract may be located in one database, but the full-text article may be found in another database. • The full-text articles may be found in journals that the UTA Libraries only has in print format • Do not search for journal articles in the online catalog. Search for specific journals or books • Use the research databases to look for journal articles, conference & proceedings papers • Use the online catalog to search for books (e.g. Aircraft control and simulation) , whole journals (e.g. Journal of guidance control and dynamics), theses and dissertations, video-recordings, technical reports MAE4310 Subbarao

  10. Typical Documents Necessary for Research in Engineering • Journal articles • Conference articles • Conference proceedings • Monograph (book) chapter • Monograph (book) review • Bibliographies or references in an journal article or book • Papers presented at conferences, congresses, meetings, symposia, workshops • Report chapter • Report review • Technical papers • Dissertation • Theses • Unpublished paper MAE4310 Subbarao

  11. Periodical Indexes and or Abstracts • Includes citation information (author, article title, journal name, volume/issue, publisher, page numbers) • Citations with abstracts (summary or quick review of record) • Many full-text documents available online • Subject headings • Other search fields MAE4310 Subbarao

  12. Periodical Title Abbreviations Citations and cited references may have the journal in an abbreviated form. A journal’s name may be cited in abbreviated form in some references. Use the following source to determine the journal’s full name: Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Abbreviation Location: Science & Engineering Library Reference Collection Call number: PN 4710 .Z997 Another source is All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources Available online http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm MAE4310 Subbarao

  13. Can be used in conjunction with Interlibrary Loan Service WorldCat Ask for assistance if needed. MAE4310 Subbarao

  14. Other Important Stuff to Know • Remote Access Instructions • http://library.uta.edu/help/dbHelp.jsp#netID • 18 Wireless laptops in SEL (Science & Engineering Library) for 24-hour checkout • 3 Group Study Rooms in SEL • Each with Smartboard & whiteboard • Each with PC can be connected to Smartboard • 2 Printers • 1Photocopy Machines in SEL • Scanners • Reserves & Electronic Reserves MAE4310 Subbarao

  15. Online Catalog Guided Search Use Library Catalog to find a specific book, authors of books, or specific journals Library Catalog does not index individual articles from journals or chapters in books Guided Search-Keyword searching- more flexibility Highlight what you want search engine to search MAE4310 Subbarao

  16. Course Reserves – What does your professor have on Reserve ?? MAE4310 Subbarao

  17. Good Advice: Avoid Plagiarism • Simply stated: DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! • Plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s thoughts, ideas, or intellectual content and claiming them as your own. In other words, you are not giving credit to the source of the thoughts, ideas, or intellectual content. That was my own definition of plagiarism • Acknowledge your sources. Give credit where credit is due. • References (Citations, bibliography) • Plagiarism has dreadful consequences • Use RefWorks (more on that later in presentation) MAE4310 Subbarao

  18. Avoid Plagiarizing: Cite Your Sources • Acknowledge or cite sources you use: • Someone’s own ideas, or theory • Facts or statistics • Graphs or drawings • Quotations of someone’s actual spoken or written words • If not using quotation, but someone’s idea, spoken or written words -- Paraphrase • If the information is Not “common knowledge”, you must cite your source • Citation tells you, who wrote the article, title of the article, when it was published, the name of the source/journal and where you can find the specific article • Author(s) - Publication date - Title of article – Source (Title of journal or magazine) - Volume and (issue) – Page numbers MAE4310 Subbarao

  19. Paraphrasing • Original • “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart. ”Ecclesiastes 7:2 New International Version • Paraphrase by an author of the passage above • “You may feel it’s morbid to think about death, but actually it’s unhealthy to live in denial of death and not consider what is inevitable.”Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, (Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 2002) MAE4310 Subbarao

  20. RefWorks – Found in the A-Z list of Databases • Add citations from library databases to your own personalized “RefWorks” database • Requires a log-in name and password – Create an account – no charge • Ways to add citations to your RefWorks account: direct importing, text file importing, creating entries “from scratch” • Create folders to organize citations • Perform searches within your RefWorks account • Create bibliographies in the appropriate style format “instantly” e.g. ASME, IEEE, APA, etc. • Use “Write-N-Cite” to insert in-text citations into a paper MAE4310 Subbarao

  21. Helpful Information to Learn Why & How to Avoid Plagiarism UTA Student Affairs Judicial Affairs • http://www.uta.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/academic_integrity.php • University of Texas at Arlington Libraries • Tutorial from UTA Libraries • http://library.uta.edu/tutorials/Plagiarism/ MAE4310 Subbarao

  22. More Things to Keep in Mind • Books, articles, etc. may have to be requested via the Interlibrary Loan service • https://illiad.uta.edu/illiad/ • Plan Ahead, allow 2 weeks turn-around time • TexShare Card if you want to use other Texas Libraries. • Online applicationhttps://library.uta.edu/borrowing/texshareCard.jsp • List of participants: • http://www.texshare.edu/generalinfo/about/programs.html MAE4310 Subbarao

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