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Finding and managing engineering information
Thomas Hapke University Library
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
Fotos: R. Jupitz
Points and tips to survive, …
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Look at your own information behavior!
• Information sources “beyond Google and Wikipedia”
• Critical use of electronic databases
Sharpen your awareness for:
Curiosity! Doubt!
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• Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (6.ed., 2002, 40 volumes) Online in TUHH-Intranet!
• Encyclopedia of optical engineering (2003)
• Comprehensive Renewable Energy (2013, 8 vols) Online im TUHH-Intranet!
• Encyclopedia of complexity and systems science (2009) Online in TUHH-Intranet!
• Encyclopedia of laser physics and technology (2008)
Use encyclopedias and other reference works
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Use subject gateways
Engineering Subject Gateway of the TIB/UB, the German National Library of Science and Technology http://vifatec.tib.uni-hannover.de/index.php3?L=e A printed source: Using the engineering literature / Bonnie A. Osif. 2. ed. 2012. Shelf number for reference copy: TEA-804
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The TUHH library
– open for all!
• www.tub.tu-harburg.de
• Personal consulting: Service desks in reading rooms, phone, E-Mail, Chat!
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The TUHH Library
Closed Stacks
Readings rooms • Reference works and
Encyclopedias • Journals • Subject groups • Textbook collection
Digital Library • E-Books • E-Journals • Databases
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The catalog – the heart of the library! Access to complete holdings!
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Catalog interfaces
TUBfind Classic catalog interface
• Search engine for TUHH library holdings
• Including articles from journals and national licences
• Including TUB web pages and TUB blog posts
• Searching for all resources of GBV Common Library Network possible
• Search philosophy: Best match, relevance ranking
• Only TUHH library holdings
• No journal articles
• Searching for resources of GBV Common Library Network in other database interface
• Search philosophy: Exact match, Boolean combination of search terms
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Finding eJournals and eBooks!
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Finding full texts through linking
services!
Example: Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
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Finding printed full text through
linking services!
Link resolver
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Finding printed full text through linking services:
Classical catalog interface!
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Through linking services to
interlibrary loan!
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Through linking services to
interlibrary loan!
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Linking service of a journals publisher
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Seaching thematically!
Finding resources on a specific subject and being sure not to miss anything important! „Modeling of semiconductors“
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Play! With search terms!
Make a search term diagram:
Topic: Modeling optical properties of semiconductors Component 1 Component 2 Component 3 model? semicond? optic? simulat? halbleit? optik? Gallium Arsenide GaAs
Component 1 AND Component 2 AND Component 3 where e.g.
Component 2 = semicond? OR halbleit? OR GaAs OR...
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Play! With databases!
Explore database features:
• Boolean logic
• Wildcard symbols: ? * $
• Neighborhood operators: Context and phrases
• Search fields: Basic index, author field, descriptor fields
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Looking for books
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
GVK - GBV Union Catalogue http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/LNG=EN/
http://www.worldcat.org/
Local library catalog, e.g. from the TUHH library https://katalog.tub.tu-harburg.de/?mylang=en
Regional Catalogue of Hamburg http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.91/LNG=EN/
http://books.google.com
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Search for journal articles in
subject-specific databases
Web of Science with Science Citation Index - interdisciplinary! Who cited a specific document? How much is a document cited?
INSPEC (Information Service in Physics, Electronics, Computer and Control) - interdisciplinary, because IT plays a considerable
role in all areas of engineering today
TEMA (Technology and Management), wti Frankfurt, formerly Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Technik
(Access to these reference databases only in TUHH intranet)
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2004
Cited References
2000 1998
2001
1993
2003 Times Cited
Related Records
2003
2004
1999
2002
1994
2004
Citing
Discovering by using the net of scholarly publications.
… moving Backward in time via Cited References, Forward in time via Times Cited,
and through Related Records.
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Database of databases DBIS
Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS) and national licenses:
www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/
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Available within TUHH intranet.
Full texts of
IEEE, IEE and IET journals
IEEE, IEE and IET conference proceedings
IEEE standards (a lot of ANSI standards are included!)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
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Journal articles via databases:
Diversity and outcome
Database GVK-Plus (GBV)
wti databases, INSPEC, Web of Science
Publishers‘ portals: IET,
SpringerLink
Google Scholar, BASE
Contents articles, books, and more
Articles, (conference papers)
articles, books, book chapters
articles, books, files, and more
Searchable contents
bibliographical description
bibliographical description, abstracts
bibliographical description, abstracts, full text
full text
Contents from
printed and electronic holdings of libraries
diverse publishers
only publisher, here e.g. Springer
who knows? 8-)
Access to full text
directly, through library in print or ordering via interlibary loan
through other databases or interlibrary loan
directly, in case access is part of subscription
directly, access maybe restricted
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Search for journal articles in
subject-specific databases
How to get the fulltext?
Locate the journal in your local library (print or e-version)! Interlibrary loan for material not owned by the TUHH library! Use the databases of the GBV Common Library Network to locate material! Fee 1,50 € for one article (copy) or book.
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Patents for talents!
About 60 % of the information in patents is not published elsewhere
DEPATISnet - the German patent information system at http://depatisnet.dpma.de
esp@cenet – European Patent Office http://ep.espacenet.com
Search the fulltext of US patents via the US Patent and Trademark Office at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/ http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/find/patents/
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Searching for substance properties’ data
In reference works (CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Aldrich Catalog)
In extensive substance property collections („Handbooks“) (Landolt-Börnstein Numerical data and functional relationships in science and technology, Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry)
Via the net (e.g. NIST Chemistry WebBook at webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ or the Physical Properties Sources Index (PPSI) at www.eqi.ethz.ch)
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Reflect about information
How to cite? What can I copy? Thinking about intellectual property!
What is not included in Google? Danger of monopoly of information access?
Costs of scholarly journals?
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KeepING ...
... up-to-date by • browsing through journal contents
Publishers’ websites, also table of contents via email GBV Online Contents Databases
• reading weblogs
like Chemical Engineering World at http://chem-eng.blogspot.com
• using RSS feeds
e.g. http://www.netvibes.com/thapke#Journals_SciTech
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... found things found
Reference management - http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/publishing/reference-management/
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Reference management is no art!
Matej Krén, Idiom, Town Library Prague (1998), Foto 2009
Today not searching and finding of information is the central challenge but coping with information!
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Software for reference management
http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/publishing/reference-management/
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How is Citavi designed?
Pre-View or Quick
Help
Working area Navigation area
Switch to program
modules
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Most important skills when managing information
• Don‘t trust only one information source.
• Be prepared for constant change.
• Know your skills and limits!
• When searching: „Bullshit in, bullshit out“.
• Tolerate ambiguity and differences.
• Don‘t give up too early.
• Be aware that every fact is the result of an act, that information has been created by somebody with a certain purpose.
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Want to know a little bit more about information?!
Not only for biotechnology:
Appendix I. The world of biotechnology
information: seven points for reflecting on
your information behavior (by T.Hapke)
In: Buchholz, K., Kasche, V., Bornscheuer, U.T.:
Biocatalysts and Enzyme Technology. 2. ed.
Wiley-VCH, October 2012.
Preprint available at: http://www.chemie.uni-
greifswald.de/~biotech/assets/downloads/Infor
mation_BuchholzKascheBornscheuer.pdf
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Information on Information – our tutorials!
On searching: DISCUS (Developing Information Skills & Competence for University Students). Grab the thread!
discus.tu-harburg.de
On research methods and writing scholarly papers: VISION (VIrtual Services for Information ONline). Take a pebble!
www.vision.tu-harburg.de/index.php?la=en
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News from the TUHH library!
Newsletter Bibaktuell https://lists.tu-harburg.de/sympa/ info/bibaktuell Once or twice a month an email! Also with an English part!
Examples of Blog-Postings
• International Open Access Week 2012 • Again writing kick-off days at TUHH • ASME Journals licensed • Taking, reading, freeing: Bookcrossing at
TUHH library • Scholarly research methods and writing
with Citavi • New eBooks from … • Why does Google Scholar sometimes ask
for your login or for your credit card? • Looking for data on chemicals: Chemspider • Privacy in the digital world • 1.000 publications in TUBdok! • Wikipedia – 10 years • Alternatives to Google …
Weblog: www.tub.tu-harburg.de/blog RSS-Feed!
Only in German!
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Or relax in the TUHH library!
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For more information
Please look at www.tub.tu-harburg.de
Contact:
Thomas Hapke
Phone +49 40 42878 3365
Mail: [email protected]
http://www.tuhh.de/b/hapke/
Informing – Points to survive at http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/subject-information/informing-points-to-survive/
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