Fire Research 101

University of Waterloo Fire Risk Analysis May 2, 2011

Martha Murphy Office of the Fire Marshal

Agenda Fire & Building Associations/Organizations Office of the Fire Marshal University of Waterloo RefWorks Google Scholar & Citations Google RSS Reader & Alerts Fire Risk Analysis Course Wiki

There’s Research Papers on Fire/Building Sites… Really!?? Engineering

Laboratory (NIST) National Research

Council (NRC) National Fire

Protection Assoc. (NFPA)

Federal Emergency Management Assoc (FEMA)

Journal articles Research reports Conference

proceedings Fire testing videos Podcasts

National Research Council (NRC)

NRC Collection One of the largest collections of engineering,

physical & life sciences, technology, health sciences in North America

50,000+ journal titles 800,000+ conference, technical papers 2 million technical reports All languages/countries where sci/tech is

published Journals indexed in major scientific databases

National Research Council

National Science Library (CISTI)

NRC Publications

http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/publications/index.html

National Research Council Discover Database

Use Discover for Journal Articles… can order thru CISTI. Register with CISTI (free) then order article (Fee per article).

http://discover-decouvrir.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/dcvr/ctrl?action=sere&lang=en

National Research Council Discover Database

Create an alert to monitor journal, share the article with colleagues

National Research Council CISTI Catalogue

http://cat.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/search

Catalogue is used to search collection at CISTI – books, technical docs etc

Can search by Division ie. Research in Construction

National Research Council CISTI Catalogue

National Research Council NRC Publications (full-text)

NRC publications are available full-text, can search by subject, author, keyword and set up alerts

http://cat.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/search

National Research Council NRC Publications (full-text)

Search for subject: Fire Risk Analysis

Engineering Laboratory, National Institute Standards & Technology (NIST)

Collection of resources from the Engineering Laboratory's Fire Research Division at NIST. 

Web pages provide links to fire related software, experimental fire data and mpeg/quick time movies of fire tests that can be downloaded and/or viewed with a Web browser

Fire on the Web Engineering Laboratory

Fire on the Web Engineering Laboratory Collection of links to

fire data Links to fire simulation

videos Results of Fire

experiments at Engineering Lab

Software Models: Fire Dynamics Simulator, Fire Modeling etc.

http://www.fire.nist.gov/

Research Information ServicesEngineering Laboratory

http://www.nist.gov/el/index.cfm

FireDocBuilding Fire Research Lab

http://www.nist.gov/bfrl/firedoc.cfm

FireDoc is a collection of 80,000 building & fire documents from many sources

Bibliographic ONLY, no full text

Journal articles, conference proceedings, technical documents

http://www.nist.gov/el/software.cfm

Engineering Laboratory Software – Fire Simulation and Research Fire research related

software developed by NIST

19 Fire analysis software programs

15 Building analysis software programs

Full descriptions and terms of use provided

Choose Fire Simulation

NewslettersEngineering Laboratory Fire.Gov newsletter

and website for the fire service - training, firefighting gear, fire investigation

EL Newsletter– news on NISTactivities

http://www.fire.gov/ http://www.nist.gov/el/newsletter.cfm

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

NFPA Homepage World’s leading advocate

of fire prevention and an authoritative source of public safety

Codes & Standards -Over 300

Research – fire investigation, technical reports

Quick Links – Fire Service – Blogs, Podcasts, Reports

http://www.nfpa.org

NFPA - Research Fire Statistics Fire Reports Fire Investigations Library Fire Protection

Foundation Members have access

to all full-text docs, non-members abstract only

http://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.asp?categoryID=15&URL=Research

NFPA Research – Fire Reports

http://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.asp?categoryID=219&URL=Research/Fire%20reports

NFPA Fire Investigation Reports

http://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.asp?categoryID=241&URL=Research/Fire%20investigations

NFPA Fire Codes

http://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.asp?categoryID=124&URL=Codes%20&%20Standards

Search codes – basic info provided

National Codes Subscription Service – full access to 300+ codes online ($$$)

Online subscribers have access to new codes in development

New** Historic Codes can now be purchased in .pdf

U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency

US Fire Administration Provides leadership to

fire & emergency stakeholders in prevention, preparedness and response

Over 400 publications Topical Fire Research

Series Fire Statistics

http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/index.shtm

USFA – Learning Resource Centre

US Fire Administration documents available

Current awareness news for fire & emergency in US

http://www.lrc.fema.gov/

National Institute for Occupational Health & Safety (NIOSH)

National Institute for Occupational Health & Safety (NIOSH) Firefighter Fatality &

Investigation reports (fulltext online)

Emergency Response resources – PPE, Terrorism, Diaster, Storm/Flood

Chemical Hazards

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/emergency.html

Justice Institute of B.C. Library (JIBC) Post-Secondary Education

for first responders, public safety and justice

Access Library catalogue and databases (use unrestricted ones)

Fire Articles Database -64,000 articles on fire & emergency

Can borrow from their collection :arrange Inter- Library Loan thru University of Waterloo Library

http://www.jibc.ca/library/index.htm

Additional Research Insititutions

British Fire Research Stationhttp://www.bre.co.uk/

Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology http://en.dbi-net.dk/

University of GreenwichFire Safety Engineering Group

(FSEG)http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/

SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden

http://www.sp.se/en/areas/fireprotection/Sidor/default.aspx

National Firefighter Near – Miss Reporting System http://www.firefighternearmiss.com/

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

http://www.vtt.fi/?lang=en

Carleton Universityhttp://www.carleton.ca/

Oklahoma State Universityhttp://www.vpr.okstate.edu/

WPI Fire Protection Engineeringhttp://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Fire/index.html

Lund University - Swedenhttp://www.lub.lu.se/en.html

University of Waterloo Libraries Library Catalogue TRELLIS (use Davis Library)

Books, Reference, Guides, Reports E-Journals (full-text) Databases (full-text) Bibliographic Citation Tool RefWorks Government Information Statistics Newspapers Ask a Librarian (Chat online..Brilliant!)

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/

University of Waterloo: Libraries

Databases for Mechanical Engineering similar for Civil/Chemical databases

Online access to full text journal articles, conference papers, technical reports

Login with UW student card

Doug Morton, Librarian for Engineering resources dhmorton@uwaterloo.ca ; 519-888-4567 x32648

http://journal-indexes.uwaterloo.ca/results.cfm?resourceType=index&subjectID=191&subjectHeading=Mechanical%20Engineering

Compendex Database Compendex is the most comprehensive

bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines.

It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.

When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature.

Compendex Database

Compendex – Search Results

Scopus Scopus is the largest abstract and citation

database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process.

Scopus

Scopus – Results

Citation Analysis

Web of Science Collection of indexes to the literature of the arts

& humanities, the social sciences, as well as the sciences.

The Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI) fully covers over 5,700 journals in the medical, physical and natural sciences, and engineering (approximately 2000 more titles than the print or CD-ROM version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week. The entire database extends back to 1899. Journal list

Web of Science – Author Search

Can limit by Author, Publication or topic

Also Limit by year, by Index – choose Science Citation or Conference Proceedings

Web of Science

Waterloo e-Journals

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/mecheng/index.html

Choose journal by title Links take you to

publisher site Read full-text article

online, create a pdf Create alerts – journal

title or by subject area

E-Journals Fire Technology

e-Journal Fire Technology

Read online, search within journal, bookmark article, set up alerts!

RefWorks Citation Builder

Online collaboration tool to build your bibliography or citation list

Create an account in RefWorks – UW Library site

RefWorks – Input Manually

RefWorks – Upload Directly

Add content directly from UW TRELLIS catalogue

Add content directly from e-Journals or Databases ie. Compendex database

Waterloo – Subject Expert!

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/mecheng/index.html

Google Scholar

Search for Free Scholarly research Articles, books,

theses, reports Scientific publishers Use Citation analysis

feature

Google Scholar Preferences

Add a library and Google Scholar will include in its search!

Google Scholar

Search by keyword, phrase, author

Limit by publication or by years

Google Scholar Results

Limit to Engineering

Citations/Summaries

Click Cited by for more articles

Office of the Fire Marshal

Fire Code via eLaws Technical Guidelines OFM eBulletin Fire Statistics Fire Safety

Publications Library Resources

http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/english/default.asp

Fire Statistics - Ontario The Office of the Fire Marshal has an

historical database which contains reports filed by fire departments on every fire call

Municipal fire departments report to the OFM on every call they attend (fires and non fires). This data is in a database that goes back to 1983.

This data can be viewed in many ways - by province, by municipality, over time, at specific types of occupancies, ignition sources, and even by injuries or fatalities.

Summaries can be provided on Ontario loss fires, fires with a reported injury, fatality or dollar loss, for the fire year period from 2004 to 2009

The OFM has done several multi year studies on why, when and where of Ontario fires

http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/en/Media%20Relations%20and%20Resources/Statistics/default.asp

Fire News – Media Monitoring

http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/en/Library/Fire%20News/default.asp

FireChat – Social Media Sites

http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/en/Library/Fire%20News/Social%20Media.asp

Toronto Fire

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Google Reader

Setting up an RSS feedCheck the website you would like to monitor/subscribe to see if they have RSS. In general, this is the way to subscribe:

Locate and click the RSS icon that is typically under the banner on the main page

Click on Subscribe button Click the hyper-text link to view the URL Copy the URL provided Paste it into your chosen RSS Feed Reader Click ADD

NFPA RSS & Podcast Feeds

Google Reader

Add a subscription

Subscribe via RSS

Managing your RSS feeds You can click and drag your Subscriptions

to place them in the order you prefer. You can group them in Folders

o Use the pull down arrow at the top of Subscriptions to create folders

o or add feeds to a folder

Managing your RSS Feeds

Searching Google’s RSS feeder

Advantages of an RSSInternet Reader

One of the best advantages is that you can access your reader from any computer that has internet access.

Information is pushed to you, you don’t have to go to numerous websites.

You can organize your information that best suits your needs.

Cloud Computing

Course Wiki

http://fireresources.pbworks.com/

Resource Links Fire Risk Analysis Wiki

http://fireresources.pbworks.com/ Links to sites discussed in presentation

PowerPoint Presentation available on Wiki Martha Murphy, OFM Librarian

martha.murphy@ontario.ca; 416-325-3235 UW Library Contact Doug Morton, Librarian for

Engineering dhmorton@uwaterloo.ca ; 519-888-4567 x32648

Thank you

Questions? Answers?