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ELEC 49x: Electrical/ Computer Engineering Project
Information Resources for Your Project
Nasser [email protected]
Fall 2010
Engineering & Science Library
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Agenda
• Information Literacy Skills
• Library Website and QCAT
• Reference books
• Articles in Engineering
• Standards and codes
• Patents
• Refworks
• Questions
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Reference Books
• Fundamentals: definitions, formulas, graphics, properties, overviews …
• Electronic and print
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E-books at Queen’s
Books24x7 - ITPro Collection
Safari Tech Books Online
Springer e-Books
And others …
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Databases/Articles
• How to find articles– Use an index– Use Federated/Meta Searching tools:
Summon, Scholars Portal, or Google Scholar – Follow Get It!@Queen’s link for electronic or
print– If Queen’s doesn’t own it– request it through
ILL (RACER)
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Standards• Describe the important
features of a product, service or system
• Identifying standards– Index– Standards Writing
Organizations
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Patents
• Are examples of Intellectual property
• Cover new inventions or any new and useful improvement of an existing invention
– 90 % of patents are improvements on existing ones*
*Canadian Intellectual Patent Office (2004). A Guide to Patents.
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Limitations of Google Patents
• Even though the ease of use for Google products, the patents database has the following limitations:
– U.S. Patents only
– The database records are not updates regularly from USPTO
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http://ep.espacenet.com
60+ million patent documents 70+ countries 1 million non-patent literature
documents Patent status and family
information Save and print multi-page
documents (up to ~50 pages) Documents in PDF format Machine Translations Does not include US reexamination
or correction certificates
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RefWorks (Reference Management)
• You need to activate your RefWorks account from the link at the library homepage
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Visit the library’s RefWorks page for more information about how to use or to attend a workshop
Queen’
s email
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool (often called a "citation manager").
It will help you save references from database and library catalogue searches, produce bibliographies, and create personal (or group) databases of citations.
http://library.queensu.ca/libguides/refworks.htm
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Additional Services• If you feel that your team needs any specific
resource that we do not have in our collection, please email me as soon as possible, please refer to this course number.
• If your project team needs more help in identifying/ locating more resources for your project, email me to schedule a meeting.
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Questions ?
Contact Information Web: http://library.queensu.ca/webeng/
Reference Desk
Phone: 533-2610
E-mail: [email protected]
Circ/Reserve Desk
Phone: 533-6981
Reference Desk
Phone: 533-2610
E-mail: [email protected]
Circ/Reserve Desk
Phone: 533-6981
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