Postgraduates MSc courses in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering and Ship Science

1. PostgraduatesMSc courses in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering and Ship Science Michael Whitton October 2012 University Library

2. Today’s session will cover • Finding key research material • Identify relevant Electronic Resources • Search effectively and record the records • Keeping up to date • Track down the full text

3. The Library Home Page (1)

5. 1st Break Look at the library website and answer the resources quiz on the handout

6. Resources (2)

7. Internet Searching • Google, etc. • Useful for finding free content • No quality controls, need to evaluate • Scientific versions (Google Scholar) more focused on research material • Search Compendex, etc., as well to avoid missing out on important articles

8. Gateways • Web Gateways • Specialist search engines • Real people choose websites and write summaries • E.g. AERADE, iCrank, Naval Technology • Also Intute (all subjects, not updated after July 2011) • See subject pages (under Websites)

9. Databases & Indexes e.g. Compendex& Web of Science • Mostly articles from quality journals (some books, conferences) • Well indexed enabling you to search in detail • Abstracts (summary of the article) • References (Many try to link to the full text) • We won’t have every journal they index • Our Inter-Library-Loans service can probably get a copy

10. Other sources for journal articles • Publishers Collections (Sciencedirect, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, etc.) • Same quality of material • Limited to 1 publisher • Search facilities can be limited • Eprints (eprints-soton, ArXiv, OAIster) • Articles, etc. made freely available – also to increase impact / visibility • Varying quality: ‘pre-prints’, departmental publications

11. Also remember other sources • Books – including research monographs • Search Webcat for our holdings • Also other catalogues e.g. COPAC • Theses • Search Webcat for our PhD theses • Index to Theses for UK/Ireland • Data (Statistical, Financial etc.)

12. Basic Demo

13. Mark, Export, Record • Many databases have a ‘marked record’ facility or similar • Useful articles get added to a marked/selected records area • Then you can print out or e-mail to yourself a list of these articles • Or you can export to Reference Managing software like Endnote

14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefirebottle/122895549/ Finding the full text (3)

15. Routes to full text • Database full text links • Sometimes links to journals we don’t buy • TDNet links (from database or library web pages) • doesn’t have all print journals • If the above do not exist or don’t work always …

16. Routes to full text (cont.) • Search WebCat • Journal articles by the journal title (use full title not abbreviations) • Conference papers by the conference title • Reports: try author and title (may need to search by organisation name) • There may be an automatic link

17. TDNet link

18. Following full text link through TDNet

19. If there is no (online) full text follow the Catalog link if present (only appears for print titles on TDNet)

20. Exceptions • Items not on Webcat & TDNet • Patents and Standards • Organisations eprint servers • Items not in UoS Libraries • Inter Library Loan (ILL)

21. 2nd Break Start searching Compendexusing the search planner. Use the example given or one of your own

22. Access to Resources (4)

23. Access - on campus • Generally no passwords are needed • A few need your Institutional (email) username & password • A handful have special usernames/passwords • If you have problems • For journals check our access on TDNet • For other resources use links on the library website

24. Access – off campus • For many resources Institutional Login is an option • VPN will give you the same access as on campus • Some TDNet functions do not work off campus without VPN

25. Look for ‘Institutional Login’, ‘UK Federation’ or ‘Shibboleth’ links

26. You often need to select the UK (or UK Federation) Then find ‘University of Southampton’ (If you can’t find us look for Southampton University)

27. VPN • Virtual Private Network • Link to University network • When connected your computer appears to be ‘on campus’ • Managed by iSolutions. Instructions on iSolutions web pages at: www.soton.ac.uk/isolutions/services/vpn_service/index.php

28. Setup instructions

29. Search Strategy (5)

30. Searching – the basics • Start simple – with a few keywords • Look at the results – do you need: • More relevance (more specific search) • More results (broaden search) • More manageable numbers – restrict in some other way (e.g. by date) • Aim for about 50-150 results

31. Boolean Logic a And b • Finds articles with both terms anywhere in the title, abstract, etc. • E.g. Traffic Andcongestion • Often the default a b

32. Boolean Logic a Or b • Finds articles with either term anywhere. • Use to allow for alternatives • E.g. airplane Or aeroplane a b

33. Boolean Logic a Not b • Finds articles with the first term that do not contain the second term. • Use with caution to eliminate non-relevant material • E.g. radiation Notsolar a b

34. Example searches – using and/or • Use of robots in nuclear power stations • 64results • Robots andnuclearandpower and stations • 94results • powerand (stations or plants) and robot and (nuclear or fission) • 640results [done in Compendex 1970-2012]

35. Truncation • Replaces any number of characters. • Sometimes works in the middle of a word. • Normally * symbol, $ in webcat • Aero* will find: • Aeroplane • Aeroplanes • Aerospace

36. Wildcards • Replace a single character. • Often can also represent zero characters. • Normally ? Symbol, $ in Web of Knowledge • Engine? will find both Engine and Engines but not engineering • Colo?r will find both Colour and Color

37. Example searches – Truncation/wildcards • power and (stations or plants) and robot and (nuclear or fission) • 640results • power and (station* or plant*) and robot* and (nuclear or fission) • 644results [done in Compendex 1970-2012]

38. Example searches – WebCat • ocean wave model • 38 results • ocean$ wave? model$ • 225 results • (Remember - truncation is $ not *)

39. Phrase Searching • If you need an exact phrase use quotation marks (“ ”) • e.g. “Solar Cells” • This makes the search more specific (finds less articles) • Truncation and stemming don’t always work in quotes • In WebCat – use single quotes (’ ‘)

40. 3rd Break Try using Boolean and truncation in your search. Try links to full text if haven’t done so already

41. Advanced features (6)

42. WOK: Citation search • Citation links are useful • to track further related research • also for articles found in Compendexetc. • Citation searching is also possible • Find out what an Author has written and who has cited each paper

43. Web of Science has a useful citation linking feature Click here to see all citing articles

44. These articles both cite the ‘parent’ article

45. Controlled Terms • Terms added to a record by Indexers • Taken from a fixed list (thesaurus) • Using these can help • Making search results more relevant and specific • Suggest alternative terms to search

46. You can do a keyword search and then just pick out relevant controlled terms By clicking on a term you can run a search on it

47. You can also use the term in your search

48. You can refine by controlled terms using the sidebar

49. Or you can use the ‘Thesaurus Search’. Enter your term …

50. …and it will come back with suggested controlled terms