REU 2013 SUMMER

(Research Experience for Undergraduates)

http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/ceas/instruction/classes/other/REU2013Summer.html

Research Exercise: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/ceas/instruction/classes/other/REUExercise-Summer2013.html

What you need to know about access to resources:

• Due to licensing agreements, most library resources are restricted to UC faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students.
• To access resources from off-campus, or outside the campus network, you must login through the University’s Central Login Service. Login at: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/information/access.html
  
  

Contacts:

• If you need research help, contact:

Ted Baldwin, College of Engineering & Applied Science (CEAS) Library 556-4211 or ted.baldwin@uc.edu

Jim Clasper, College of Engineering & Applied Science (CEAS) Library 556-1452 or jim.clasper@uc.edu

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Where to Start:

The University of Cincinnati Libraries’ College of Engineering & Applied Science (CEAS) Library website offers detailed information about resources and services available in science and engineering. You can access the UC Library Catalog, electronic full-text resources, links to useful websites, and contact information for CEAS Library staff who can help you find what you need. Check it out: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/ceas.  This workshop guide is found at: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/ceas/instruction/classes/other/retreu2012.html

Find BOOKS using the library catalog and e-book collections:

• The University of Cincinnati Libraries Catalog (UCLID) is a primary source for information about the libraries collection.  See http://uclid.uc.edu
• The Library Catalog can be searched by author, title, keyword, subject, or call #.
• The Library Catalog also links out to the statewide OhioLINK catalog. More information about OhioLINK below.
• Manage your library account online: view checked out items, renew books, and review/cancel holds. See https://uclid.uc.edu/patroninfo~S39/
• Catalog search tips: http://uclid.uc.edu/screens/tips/index.html
  • Use AND, OR, and AND NOT to relate words within a search
  • Use keyword to drill in and subject headings to expand out
  • Use keywords to find conferences, or author if you know the name of the conference
  • Use variant forms of a society when searching (e.g., EERC or Earthquake Engineering Research Center)
  • Request books using the Request button
• Use OhioLINK catalog to find and request books not available at UC:  http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search/

• The E-Books (Books Online) http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/ceasebooks and Proceedings Online http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/proceedingsonline offer other ways to search for books and proceedings when you don't know the title or publisher, or when e-books/e-proceedings are not linked through the catalog.  The ability to search across entire collections of thousands of books and proceedings can be a powerful research tool.  Some e-book and e-proceedings collections in science and engineering are:
  • ASCE proceedings (civil engineering)
  • CRCnetBASE (all subjects)
  • IEEE Xplore (electrical and computer engineering)
  • Knovel (all subjects)
  • Proquest Dissertations and Theses (all subjects)
  • ScienceDirect books from Elsevier (all subjects)
  • SPIE Digital Library (optical and electrical engineering, physics)
  • Wiley Online Library e-books (all subjects)

Journals and Interlibrary Loan (ILL):

• Full-Text Journals - the “Full Text Journals” tool provides links to full-text options for articles, from a variety of library-subscribed sources. The tool may be utilized in two ways: (1) direct search by journal title, ISSN, or other journal information, and (2) browsing an alphabetical list by the first letter of the journal title. http://aj2vr6xy7z.search.serialssolutions.com/ This tool is integrated with most library-subscribed databases, and is typically indicated by this icon:

• ILLIAD : Interlibrary-Loan service for acquiring material not at UC or not available through OhioLINK

Where to find information on the WEB:

• Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) enables you to search for scholarly literature from all areas of research, and create email alerts that track new results. Google Scholar is not comprehensive, but can be a good place to discover additional keywords for searching.
• Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and scholarly articles available across the web.
• If you are unable to access the full-text of the item, please check with the library.

Where to find RESEARCH ARTICLES -- General:

• COMPENDEX (Engineering Index) – coverage back to 1884.  It provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. The records in the database are drawn from over 2,600 published journals, conference proceedings, individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and other materials. http://www.engineeringvillage.com/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=quickSearch&database=1
  

 

• INSPEC - worldwide scientific and technical literature in physics, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. It also has significant coverage in areas such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics. INSPEC includes over 14 million records with 725,000 records added annually, including records for 2,500 conference proceedings. Over 5,000 journals and other serial titles are indexed.  http://www.engineeringvillage.com/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=quickSearch&database=2

 

• Scopus – indexing, abstracting, and citation searching database for science and social science scholarly literature. Includes quality web sources, conference proceedings, and trade publications. Indexes 19,500 peer-reviewed journal and 1200 open-access journals, 575 trade publications, 315 book series, 23 million patent records, and 43 million webpages. Coverage back to 1823. http://www.scopus.com/home.url
  

Where to find RESEARCH ARTICLES -- Specialized:

• ProQuest Engineering and Science databases:
  

  
  
  • Civil Engineering Abstracts - citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in civil engineering. and its complementary fields, . This database provides comprehensive international coverage with the monitoring of over 3,000 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications back to 1966. http://search.proquest.com/civilengineering/advanced?accountid=2909

  
  

  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management – multidisciplinary collection of fifteen databases with comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.  http://search.proquest.com/espm/advanced?accountid=2909

  
  

  • Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts - citations, abstracts, and indexing literature for more than 4,000 titles in mechanical and transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. This database covers international engineering literature back to 1966. http://search.proquest.com/mteabstracts/advanced?accountid=2909

  
  

  • Technology Research Database - a single mega-database in three components: the Materials Research Database with METADEX, High Technology Research Database with Aerospace, and the Engineering Research Database. The database content represents the most comprehensive and current coverage of the relevant serial and non-serial literature available. Sources covered include over 4,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. http://search.proquest.com/technology/advanced?accountid=2909
    
    
• Scientific.net - full-text of the materials science and engineering publications published by Trans Tech Publications. The Trans Tech series included in the database are Advanced Materials Research, Advances in Science and Technology, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Defect and Diffusion Forum, Journal of Metastable and Nanocrystalline Materials, Journal of Nano Research, Key Engineering Materials, Materials Science Forum, and Solid State Phenomena. http://www.scientific.net
  
  
• TRID (the TRIS and ITRD database) - the largest and most comprehensive source of information on published transportation research on the Web.

 

• SciFinder - premier database for the field of chemistry, materials, biological research, environmental science and related fields. It covers around 10,000 journals from more than 150 countries and patents from more than 60 patent authorities. There are more than 32,000,000 records in the database. It indexes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations. SciFinder also includes the MEDLINE medical research database. Coverage from 1907 to date.
  
  

Now that you’ve found your articles – MANAGE YOUR INFORMATION:

• RefWorks - online research management, writing and collaboration tool. It will help you gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. It is similar in concept to EndNote, Zotero or Mendeley, but is web-based, allowing you to access it from anywhere. University of Cincinnati Libraries makes this product available free of charge for all University of Cincinnati faculty and staff. More instruction and assistance with RefWorks available at http://www.libraries.uc.edu/services/tech_services/refworks.html. http://www.refworks.com 
  
  
• Many professional societies and publishers prescribe a certain format for citations in their publications.  For this assignment, use the citation format of the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE): http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/ceas/instruction/classes/civil/asceform.html

Other Services:

• Ask a Librarian for help, via the CEAS Library website.  Your query goes to Jim Clasper, Assistant Engineering and Applied Science Librarian.

REU 2013 Summer

twb 5/20/2013