Finding and managing engineering information

TUHH Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg

www.tub.tu-harburg.de Thomas Hapke - April 2013

Finding engineering information

Finding and managing engineering information

Thomas Hapke University Library

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

Fotos: R. Jupitz

Points and tips to survive, …




Look at your own information behavior!

• Information sources “beyond Google and Wikipedia”

• Critical use of electronic databases

Sharpen your awareness for:

Curiosity! Doubt!




• 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




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




The TUHH library

– open for all!

• www.tub.tu-harburg.de

• Personal consulting: Service desks in reading rooms, phone, E-Mail, Chat!




The TUHH Library

Closed Stacks

Readings rooms • Reference works and

Encyclopedias • Journals • Subject groups • Textbook collection

Digital Library • E-Books • E-Journals • Databases

Picture: D. Bieler

The catalog – the heart of the library! Access to complete holdings!




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




Finding eJournals and eBooks!




Finding full texts through linking

services!

Example: Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com




Finding printed full text through

linking services!

Link resolver




Finding printed full text through linking services:

Classical catalog interface!




Through linking services to

interlibrary loan!




Through linking services to

interlibrary loan!




Linking service of a journals publisher




Seaching thematically!

Finding resources on a specific subject and being sure not to miss anything important! „Modeling of semiconductors“




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...




Play! With databases!

Explore database features:

• Boolean logic

• Wildcard symbols: ? * $

• Neighborhood operators: Context and phrases

• Search fields: Basic index, author field, descriptor fields




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




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)




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.




Database of databases DBIS

Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS) and national licenses:

www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/




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




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




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.




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/




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)




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?

Graphics: D. Bieler




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

Graphics: D. Bieler

... found things found

Reference management - http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/publishing/reference-management/




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!




Software for reference management

http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/publishing/reference-management/




How is Citavi designed?

Pre-View or Quick

Help

Working area Navigation area

Switch to program

modules




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.




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




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!




Or relax in the TUHH library!




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/

Graphics: D. Bieler

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