Effective Research for Electrical & Computer Engineering

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University Libraries Engineering and Architecture Library American University of Beirut December 11, 2012

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A PPT presented to Electrical & Computer Engineering ME and PhD students.

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University LibrariesEngineering and Architecture Library

American University of BeirutDecember 11, 2012

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Services

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Important dates

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Researching/Finding Material

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Use quotes when searching for exact phrases

Use Catalog to Search for books,eBooks, & Thesis

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Print Book

E-Thesis

E-Books

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Print Book

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E-Thesis

E-Thesis can be accessedOnline and downloaded On Campus only

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E- Book

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E-books databases

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Books (Print and Electronic), Theses, Projects, Videos

Encyclopedias (Access Science, McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology )

AUBCATAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks

Knovel Engineering Library  CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE Ebrary , Springer eBooks Elsevier eBooks

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Title Subject Coverage Availability

ACM Digital Library & Master SIG Package

Electrical & Computer Engineering 1866-

Full-Text

IEEE Xplore/IEL   Electrical & Computer Engineering

1988- Full-Text

INSPEC (select database from EI village 2)

engineering 1970-Citations, Abstracts

PubMed Biomedical Engineering 1947-Citations, Abstracts

Scopus  General 1960-Citations, Abstracts

Web of Science   General 1980-Citations, Abstracts

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Books (Print and Electronic), Theses, Projects, Videos

Encyclopedias (Access Science, McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology )

AUBCATAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) eBooks

Knovel Engineering Library  CRC Sci-TECHnetBASE Ebrary , Springer eBooks Elsevier eBooks

Finding Articles

Use search all to find print books,Ebooks, & articles From all databases

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Import Citations into

RefWorks

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PubMed is helpful in

Biomedical Engineering research

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Journal Assessment

Tools

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Journal Assessment Databases

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Cited By Databases &

finding Influential Authors

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An H-Index of 5 means that 5 of the author’s articles have received at least 5 citations each

# of papers # of citations

1 20

2 18

3 13

4 10

5 7

6 3

7 2

8 1

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Cited By Searching Using Scopus

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Select Cited by to organize by highly cited first

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Cited By Searching Using WOS

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H-Index calculation

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Cited By Searching Using Google Scholar

Click Here to do exact phrase

searching in the title to retrieve relevant

results

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Not all PhD dissertations

are available in full text

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Use Google advanced search and limit to PDFto retrieve reliable reports and conference articles

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You can import citations from GoogleScholar and all

databases and arrange them in folders and do the

References according to style (ASCE,IEEE, ASME, APA,…)

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Table of Contents Alert Saved Searches Alert Standards Alert Google Scholar Alert

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