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1 ELEC 49x: Electrical/ Computer Engineering Project Information Resources for Your Project Nasser Saleh [email protected] Fall 2010 Engineering & Science Library

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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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Information Literacy Skills

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http://library.queensu.ca

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http://library.queensu.ca/webeng

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Subject Guide

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Connect from Off Campus

8Library Companion @ Moodle

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QCAT

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Summon @ Queen’s

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Reference Books

• Fundamentals: definitions, formulas, graphics, properties, overviews …

• Electronic and print

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ENGnetBASE

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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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Synthesis Digital Library Lectures

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Knovel

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Knovel

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Knovel Data Search

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Interactive Tools in Knovel

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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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Example: Engineering Village

Get it @ Queen’s

Results Manager

Refine your

Search

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Academic Search Complete

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Journals, conference proceedings, and full text e-

books on light-based research

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Get it @ Queen’s

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IEEE Digital Library

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IEEE Advanced Search

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My IEEE

- Create alerts- Save searches

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Statistics & Data

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E-Stat

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Data and Surveys

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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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IEEE Standards

• Search by number

• Search by subject

• Access draft & archived standards

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Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Collection

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Parts & Suppliers

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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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Canadian PatentsCanadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)

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Google Patentshttp://www.google.com/patents

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Google Patent Page

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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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Manage your resources and write your report

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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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Example

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Build a list of references

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More about Refworks

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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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