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UWE Library Services

Learn how the library can boost your research through key resources, including databases, journals, and more. Get help with search strategies, referencing, and accessing materials for your project or dissertation.

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UWE Library Services

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  1. UWE Library Services How the Library can support your project or dissertation Alastair Sleat EDM Librarian

  2. Outcomes of the session • To maximise the effectiveness of your search strategy • To become familiar with some key information resources • To see how the Library can help you with referencing

  3. Before you start • Do you know what you want? • Will other people understand the terms you are using? • Are there alternative terms meaning the same thing? • What are the broader/narrower concepts? • Help through Study Skills

  4. Library Search • Searches all our resources (well most) subscribe to • Access through Library home page • You will also need to use Your Subject

  5. Sources of Information • Books (incl. e books) and specialist encyclopaedias • Journals (incl. e journals) • Conference proceedings • Standards • Patents • Technical reports

  6. The trouble with books • Long gap between idea and publication • Not indexed • Catalogues usually give only a description of the book – contents are hidden • Most things not written in books at all

  7. The world of journals • Speedier publication of research • Articles have bibliographies and references to other works • Academic, professional or popular? • Peer review – sometimes • 90% are electronic

  8. Collections strong on Mathematics • Cambridge Journals Online • Science Direct • Library Search works with both these – more functionality from the database itself

  9. Compendex • The Engineering Index • We call it a bibliographic database or just a database • Indexes articles and conference papers • Good way to start research but you won’t necessarily get articles in full text

  10. IEEE XPlore • Access to 1/3 of the world’s literature in electrical engineering, communications and computer science • Full text access to IEEE and IET journals and conferences, standards and ebooks • Aerospace, automotive, robotics, sensors etc etc.

  11. Society of Automotive Engineers Digital Library • Provides access to the technical papers of the Society of Automotive Engineers • In full text from 1998 onwards • Also includes abstracts of other SAE papers • Automotive and Aerospace coverage

  12. Knovel • Knovel contains over 3000 electronic books, as well as interactive graphs and equations which allow users to accurately plot points, test ranges for 'what-if' scenarios and solve real-world problems from tables and charts in references that would otherwise be static images on the page

  13. Knovel datasearch

  14. In addition to • Complete British Standards online • Big e journal packages such as Science Direct and Business Source Premier (strong on Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research) • Engineer it – access to trade catalogues • ArXiv - Open e-print archive with over 100000 articles in physics, 10000 in mathematics

  15. If we haven’t got what you want • We can try and obtain it for you • Books, articles, conference papers and theses from the British Library • Standards (i.e. those not featured on BSOL) • Other papers/data sometimes harder to obtain • Contact us

  16. Referencing and citing • CITING: acknowledging within your text the document from which you have obtained your information. • REFERENCE: the detailed description of the document from which you have obtained your information.

  17. Why reference? • Each time you use someone else’s ideas or words it is essential that you acknowledge this in your work. • Not acknowledging other people's work is not only intellectually dishonest but also illegal.

  18. More about plagiarism

  19. Extensive referencing help is available from the Library Home Page

  20. RefWorks allows you to: • Create your own searchable database of references. • You can then incorporate the references from your database into a word document and automatically format the document and bibliography. • RefWorks is available from the eLibrary, under the ‘Find a database’ tab.

  21. Where to find help • Study Skills • Library help desk • “Ask a Librarian” email, phone or chat.You can arrange an appointment with me through this • Library workshops

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