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Engineering & Science Library

ELEC 49x: Electrical/ Computer Engineering Project Information Resources for Your P roject Nasser Saleh nasser.saleh@queensu.ca Fall 2010. Engineering & Science Library. Agenda. Information Literacy Skills Library Website and QCAT Reference books Articles in Engineering

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Engineering & Science Library

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  1. ELEC 49x: Electrical/ Computer Engineering Project Information Resources for Your Project Nasser Salehnasser.saleh@queensu.ca Fall 2010 Engineering & Science Library

  2. Agenda • Information Literacy Skills • Library Website and QCAT • Reference books • Articles in Engineering • Standards and codes • Patents • Refworks • Questions

  3. Information Literacy Skills

  4. http://library.queensu.ca

  5. http://library.queensu.ca/webeng

  6. Subject Guide

  7. Connect from Off Campus

  8. Library Companion @ Moodle

  9. QCAT

  10. Summon @ Queen’s

  11. Fundamentals: definitions, formulas, graphics, properties, overviews … Electronic and print Reference Books

  12. ENGnetBASE

  13. E-books at Queen’s Books24x7 - ITPro Collection Safari Tech Books Online Springer e-Books And others …  

  14. Synthesis Digital Library Lectures

  15. Knovel

  16. Knovel

  17. Knovel Data Search

  18. Interactive Tools in Knovel

  19. How to find articles Use an index Use Federated/Meta Searching tools: Summon, Scholars Portal, or Google Scholar Follow Get It!@Queen’s link for electronic or print If Queen’s doesn’t own it– request it through ILL (RACER) Databases/Articles

  20. Example: Engineering Village Results Manager Refine your Search Get it @ Queen’s

  21. Academic Search Complete

  22. Journals, conference proceedings, and full text e-books on light-based research

  23. Get it @ Queen’s

  24. IEEE Digital Library

  25. IEEE Advanced Search

  26. My IEEE • Create alerts • Save searches

  27. Statistics & Data

  28. E-Stat

  29. Data and Surveys

  30. Describe the important features of a product, service or system Identifying standards Index Standards Writing Organizations Standards

  31. IEEE Standards • Search by number • Search by subject • Access draft & archived standards

  32. Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Collection

  33. Parts & Suppliers

  34. Are examples of Intellectual property Cover new inventions or any new and useful improvement of an existing invention 90 % of patents are improvements on existing ones* *Canadian Intellectual Patent Office (2004). A Guide to Patents. Patents

  35. Canadian PatentsCanadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)

  36. Google Patentshttp://www.google.com/patents

  37. Google Patent Page

  38. Limitations of Google Patents • Even though the ease of use for Google products, the patents database has the following limitations: • U.S. Patents only • The database records are not updates regularly from USPTO

  39. http://ep.espacenet.com • 60+ million patent documents • 70+ countries • 1 million non-patent literature documents • Patent status and family information • Save and print multi-page documents (up to ~50 pages) • Documents in PDF format • Machine Translations • Does not include US reexamination or correction certificates

  40. Manage your resources and write your report

  41. RefWorks (Reference Management) • You need to activate your RefWorks account from the link at the library homepage

  42. Visit the library’s RefWorks page for more information about how to use or to attend a workshop RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool (often called a "citation manager"). It will help you save references from database and library catalogue searches, produce bibliographies, and create personal (or group) databases of citations. Queen’s email http://library.queensu.ca/libguides/refworks.htm

  43. Example

  44. Build a list of references

  45. More about Refworks

  46. Additional Services • If you feel that your team needs any specific resource that we do not have in our collection, please email me as soon as possible, please refer to this course number. • If your project team needs more help in identifying/ locating more resources for your project, email me to schedule a meeting.

  47. Questions ?Contact InformationWeb: http://library.queensu.ca/webeng/ Reference Desk Phone: 533-2610 E-mail: engsci@queensu.ca Circ/Reserve Desk Phone: 533-6981 Hours, 2010-2011 M-Th 8:00am – 11:00pm Fri 8:00am – 8:00pm Sat 10:00am – 8:00 pm Sun 10:00am – 11:00 pm

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