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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Electrical Engineering 4BI6
How to Find Refereed Articles for Your Design Project
Linda Michtics, Engineering Liaison LibrarianThode Library
ObectivesBy 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
What are
Refereed Articles ???
Magazine VS Scholarly publication
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
The database to checkto determine if a journal is refereed
The link to the database
The icon that indicates that ajournal is refereed.
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
The subjects
You can type the name of a database if you know it.
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 engineeringinfo
These three are good for medicalinfo
How to Search for Articles in a Database
Compendex powered by Engineering Village
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
Constructing a Search
Do you know why we put *s here?
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Tips for Too Few Results
Tips for Too Many Results
Find one good article Use hyperlinked words from descriptors
(main heading; controlled terms, uncontrolled terms, etc.) or authors to find other relevant articles
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“One Good Article” Strategy
Click here and you will get the full-text of the journal article.
Set up a RACER account and our library will order research materials that we don’t own.
Click here for information on RACER.
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)
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.)
You can use RefWorks to manageyour references. If you want to learn more, there is an online tutorial.
Refworks Demo Using Compendex
Select Engineering Design
For design research, checkPatent websites and productCatalogues.
Summary
Refereed (peer reviewed) articles
Finding databases
Searching for articles in a database
RACER, Refworks and Patents
Questions?
Need Help? Just ask! Visit: Research Help Desk in Thode
Library,1st Floor email: [email protected] Call: ext. 22000 Chat: http://library.mcmaster.ca/justask/ Contact Linda Michtics, Engineering Liaison
Librarian : [email protected] or ext.
23882