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Electrical Engineering 4BI6 How to Find Refereed Articles for Your Design Project

Electrical Engineering 4BI6 How to Find Refereed Articles for Your Design Project. Linda Michtics, Engineering Liaison Librarian Thode Library. Obectives. By the end of this session, you will be able to: define what a refereed (peer reviewed) article is find article databases

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Electrical Engineering 4BI6 How to Find Refereed Articles for Your Design Project

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  1. Electrical Engineering 4BI6How to Find Refereed Articles for Your Design Project Linda Michtics, Engineering Liaison Librarian Thode Library

  2. Obectives By the end of this session, you will be able to: • define what a refereed (peer reviewed) article is • find article databases • search for articles in a database • find RACER, Refworks and patents databases

  3. What are Refereed Articles ??? Magazine VS Scholarly publication

  4. Refereed Articles • Written by and for researchers/academics • Longer articles written in a formal scholarly style to share facts and research with the academic community • Specific, in depth • Often include charts and graphs to support research findings • Usually no advertisements • Include references and bibliography • Reviewed by peers in the field for quality, relevance and appropriateness of journal

  5. The database to check to determine if a journal is refereed

  6. The link to the database

  7. The icon that indicates that a journal is refereed.

  8. How to Find Article Databases Steps • Click “Articles/Databases” tab on the McMaster library homepage • Search databases by subject if you are not sure which database to choose • Search database by name if you know which database you are looking for

  9. The subjects

  10. You can type the name of a database if you know it.

  11. Best Bets for your Assignment • Compendex • IEEE Xplore • INSPEC • Medline or Pubmed (medicine) • BIOSIS (life sciences and biology) • Science Citation Index Expanded (includes biology, biotechnology, medicine) These three are good for engineering info These three are good for medical info

  12. How to Search for Articles in a Database

  13. Compendex powered by Engineering Village

  14. Constructing a Search • Identify main concepts • Identify synonyms for these concepts (tip: use online thesaurus) • When phrase searching, enclose phrase in quotation marks eg. “human computer interface” • Use boolean operators: and, or, not • Use proximity operators eg. near • Use asterisk symbol * (truncation) for plurals or alternative endings : * eg. canad* gets canada, canadian, canadians • Use wildcard symbol ? to replace a single character eg. wom?n for woman and women

  15. Do you know why we put *s here?

  16. Tips for Too Few Results

  17. Tips for Too Many Results

  18. “One Good Article” Strategy • Find one good article • Use hyperlinked words from descriptors (main heading; controlled terms, uncontrolled terms, etc.) or authors to find other relevant articles

  19. Click here and you will get the full-text of the journal article.

  20. Set up a RACER account and our library will order research materials that we don’t own.

  21. Click here for information on RACER.

  22. Google Scholar • Searches across many disciplines and sources from one place • Includes peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, etc. published by professional societies, preprint repositories, universities • Can link directly to full-text papers that McMaster subscribes to if you see get it @ Mac (this works from on-campus and from home if you use your MacID)

  23. RefWorks • Web-based citation management software • FREE to Mac students • Registration required • Create one or several accounts • Store unlimited number of references • Can move your RefWorks database into another database programme (eg. Endnote, ProCite, Reference Manager, etc.)

  24. You can use RefWorks to manage your references. If you want to learn more, there is an online tutorial.

  25. Refworks Demo Using Compendex

  26. Select Engineering Design

  27. For design research, check Patent websites and product Catalogues.

  28. Summary • Refereed (peer reviewed) articles • Finding databases • Searching for articles in a database • RACER, Refworks and Patents

  29. Questions?

  30. Need Help? Just ask! • Visit: Research Help Desk in Thode Library,1st Floor • email: library@mcmaster.ca • Call: ext. 22000 • Chat: http://library.mcmaster.ca/justask/ • Contact Linda Michtics, Engineering Liaison Librarian : michtic@mcmaster.ca or ext. 23882

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