Making the most of available library resources Megan Sapp Nelson Engineering Librarian msn@purdue.edu

1. Making the most of available library resources Megan Sapp Nelson Engineering Librarian msn@purdue.edu

2. Course Webpage http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/bcm_orientation

3. Objectives • Understand the workflow of a literature review • Describe the strengths and weaknesses of searching Library All Search and Subject Specific Databases • Describe how to retrieve full text materials from the library website • Identify databases containing content related to BCM

4. Purpose of Literature Review • Gives your reader background information on your project • Demonstrates your familiarity with the research in your field • Shows how your work contributes one more piece in the puzzle of expanding the knowledge base in your field1 1Reed, L. (1998). Performing a Literature Review. 1998 Frontiers in Engineering Conference. IEEE: Tempe, AZ. Retrieved from IEEExplore, June 8, 2010.

5. Strategy • Brainstorm your topic. • Create keywords about your topic, including a standard list of search phrases you will use. • Select databases and resources, including web search engines. • Search databases and resources systematically, using your search phrase list. Evaluate search strategy and change search phrases as needed. • Read articles, highlighting any relevant references in the reference list. • Retrieve the reference articles. • Evaluate resulting search set, and evaluate search strategy and change search phrases as needed.

6. The Literature Review Cycle

7. Exercise: Topic sentence • What is your topic? Write out your topic in a sentence, being as descriptive as possible regarding the questions Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. • Example: I am researching how to economically create an airtight single family home to be built by Habitat for Humanity and lived in by low-income families.

8. Mining for Keywords • Exercise: Based on the topic sentence you created, pick out specific highly important words to search the database. Example: Airtight Single Family Home Low-Income Habitat for Humanity

9. Generating Synonyms • Exercise: Using the list of keywords you created, create a list of synonyms or phrases with similar meanings. Googling keywords can provide inspiration for synonyms Example: Airtight – Leak free, energy efficient, passive house Single family home – detached home, duplex, townhouse

10. The Literature Review Cycle

11. Facets • Facets are limiters that can be applied within a search result set. • Facets are used in both the All Search Interface and commercial databases. • Facets allow you to select a subset of articles based upon criteria that you choose.

12. What criteria? Criteria (facets) generally include: • Type of Resource • Subject • Author • Date Some databases have other facets that only work in their databases as well.

13. Choosing where to search • Library Search All • Provides extensive, broad searching across disciplines. • Includes everything owned by Purdue plus many things we do not. • Serendipitous searching. • Specific Databases • Provides in-depth, efficient, subject specific searching. • Includes academic journals, some of which Purdue does not subscribe to. • Results are highly targeted to discipline.

14. What Database Should I Use? • Use All Search when • You are finding general information on a topic. • You are figuring out the scope of your project. • You are trying to locate a book or ebook. • You don’t have a specific type of resource in mind from the beginning. • Use disciplinary databases when • You are looking for a specific term from a discipline. • You are trying to find the most up to date information in your field. • You want to do a quick and dirty search that is still precise. • You want to build an advanced search strategy. • You want to find more in-depth information.

15. General Databases • Academic Search Premier • OmniFile Full-text • Professional Development Collection • Proquest Research Library • Lexis-Nexis

16. Full-text Sci-Tech Databases • ACM Digital Library • ASCE Digital Library • IEEE Xplore • Have links from the databases list • Science Direct – http://www.sciencedirect.com • SPIE Digital Library – http://www.spiedl.com • Add the URL prefix for off-campus use: • http://www2.lib.purdue.edu:2048/login?url=

17. Online Reference Sources • Full-text books – mostly reference materials, such as handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias • Access Science • Knovel • EngNetBase • Specifications and Standards • Safari Tech Books Online

18. Business Information Full-text • Marketresearch.com • Forrester Research • Frost & Sullivan • Business Source Premier • ABI/Inform Global and ABI/Inform Trade & Industry • Factiva

19. Advanced Search • Multiple search boxes • Generally connected by Boolean logic • Limits available (but are labeled differently depending upon the database)

20. Limits • Date • Fulltext only • Document Type • Scholarly? • Journal Article • Book

21. Places to go for help • Help files • Subject specialist • Megan Sapp Nelson, msn@purdue.edu, 765-49-42871 • Company website for tutorials, handouts • Purdue Library produced tutorials

22. The Literature Review Cycle

23. Keep a bibliographic trail • Collect author, title, date, publication information, standard numbers, web addresses, call numbers • Be able to find the source again and allows others to find the resources as well. • Variety of tools available to assist creating a bibliographic tool. • EndNote • EndNoteWeb • Zotero • RefWorks • Mendeley • For web resources, print them immediately, write the full web address down, and make note of how you found it. Web pages change constantly!

24. EndNote Web • Freely available online • Works with Word • http://www.myendnoteweb.com • Use your Purdue email address to sign up

25. Endnote Web Interface

26. Format Selection

27. Word Interface for EndNote Web

28. Inserted Citation

29. Any Questions?

30. Megan Sapp Nelson Engineering Librarian msn@purdue.edu 765-49-42871