Hacking the Library

1. Hacking the Library Tools, Tips, and Tricks to Find, Organize, and Keep Up to Date on Current Research in Your Field Janet Fransen Librarian for Computer Science & Engineering fransen@umn.edu

4. Things you should know about • Library Structure • Library Hacks • Specific types of resources • Consulting and Services

5. Library Structure

6. http://www.oir.umn.edu/student/enrollment/term/1113/current/12204http://www.oir.umn.edu/student/enrollment/term/1113/current/12204

7. 14 Library Locations • Walter: CS print books and journals • Others: Cross-disciplinary work • Use Get It to have print materials sent to your favorite library

8. Outside the U of M • Worldcat • International consortium catalog • Go there to find out what libraries have a book

9. Outside the U of M • Interlibrary Loan • Separate login • Print delivered to library of your choice • Electronic delivered online to your account

10. Liaisons • Aligned with colleges/departments • Me: CS, ECE, AEM, HST • BS in AEM • 20 years as a desktop app developer/trainer/writer • MLIS in 2006 • Keenly interested in all my subject areas, but expert in none of them

14. Library Hacks

25. Managing Citations http://www.lib.umn.edu/capim/citation/compare

26. Specific Types of Resources

28. Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Expected completion for analysis of Computer Science & Engineering Department: 10/15/11 3 Masters theses, 43 PhD Dissertations

29. Sources Cited (ECE)

30. Other Sources (ECE)

31. What’s in the databases you’re searching? • IEEE Xplore • Mostly IEEE-published articles/papers • Recent IET journals (2007-present) • IBM Journal of Research & Development • AIP (Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and others)

32. What’s in the databases you’re searching? • ACM • Full text: ACM publications • Citations: “Major publishers in computing” • Load through the proxy and you’ll see the Find It button on citations

33. What’s in the databases you’re searching? • Google Scholar • We don’t know, but a lot • Many publishers’ databases (Elsevier, IEEE, etc.) • Institutional Repositories (University Digital Conservancy) • Upside is breadth, downside is precision

34. What’s in the databases you’re searching? • Engineering Village (Compendex/Inspec) • General engineering, computer science, and physics • Articles and conference papers, less gray literature than Google Scholar • Allows for more precise search

35. What’s in the databases you’re searching? • Web of Science • Wide range of science disciplines • Mostly published articles, not technical reports or conference papers • Precise search, plus who’s-citing-whom analysis tools

36. Engineering Village Web of Science

37. Finding Standards • Standards librarian: Jon Jeffryes

38. Standards

39. Standards • Some cataloged, most not • Check Jon’s page first, shelves at Walter second • Call the reference desk and we’ll look for you • If we don’t have it, ask Jon if he will order it for you

40. ISO Standards • Database maintained by SciEng staff (http://www.lib.umn.edu/walter/iso/search)

41. Consulting and Services

42. Consulting Services

46. Online Instruction

47. http://z.umn.edu/englit

49. Contact me at: Jan Fransen Fransen@umn.edu 612-624-7446 Website: z.umn.edu/umjanlib Office hours: Thursdays 3:00-4:00 in the ECE Student Center