Finding and managing engineering information

TUHH Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg

www.tub.tu-harburg.de Thomas Hapke - October 2012

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!




The thread ...

• Orientation TUHH library

• Playing with search terms and databases

• Reflecting about information: Open Access

… in the TUHH library




For first orientation!

• Encyclopedias and reference works

• Subject gateways

• Your local academic library

Graphics: D. Bieler




• Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (6.ed., 2002, 40 volumes) Online in TUHH-Intranet!

• Encyclopedia of optical engineering (2003)

• The Internet Encyclopedia (2004, 3 volumes)

• 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

http://www.econbiz.de

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!




New to the library?

http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/service/




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




Please rate!

http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/find/

How much of its budget for media did the TUHH library spent for digital rersources in 2011?

a) 20 to 40 %

b) 40 to 60 %

c) 60 to 80 %




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!




Linking service of a journals publisher




Searching thematically

Find books - as much as possible – on a specific subject in the catalog of the TUHH library! „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 search terms!

Make a search term diagram:

Topic: Recycling of plastics by biotechnological methods Component 1 Component 2 Component 3 recycl? plasti? biotech? reuse polymer? biodegrad? wiederverw? kunststoff? microbi? verwert? PVC

Component 1 AND Component 2 AND Component 3 where e.g.

Component 2 = (plasti?) OR polymer? OR kunststoff? OR...




Trying to get the fulltext of a journal article

A. S. Mikhailov und G. Ertl (1996): Nonequilibrium structures in condensed systems. Science 272 (5268): 1596-1597. S.I. Stupp SI and P.V. Braun (1997): Molecular manipulation of microstructures: Biomaterials, ceramics, and semiconductors Science 277 (5330): 1242-11248.




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

• RSWB plus – references on planning and building

(Access to these reference databases only in TUHH intranet)




Web of Science

• Science Citation Index (SCI): more than 6300 journals from STM

• Includes also Social Sciences Citation Index and Art & Humanities Citation Index

• Covered time range: 1945-

• Each week more than 22.000 records new (SCI)

• Focus: most cited journals => English language!

• Citation searching!




2004

Cited References

2000 1998

2001

1993

2003 Times Cited

Related

Records

2003

2004

1999

2002

1994

2004

Citing

From just a single record within the Web of Science,

expand your search by simply following the links designed

to drive discovery.

… moving Backward in time via Cited References, Forward in time via Times Cited,

and through Related Records.




Journal articles via databases:

Diversity and outcome

Database GVK-Plus (GBV)

INSPEC, TEMA, 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




Database of databases DBIS

Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS) and national licenses:

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




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/




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




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?




Journals’ Crisis

Duration of publication process, problems in intellectual property => Open Access (OA)

Authors want to publish more,

readers want to read less.

(Hans E. Roosendaal, University of Twente)

http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ast/engr/about/StickerShock.cfm http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ast/engr/about/StickerShock2.cfm




What does Open Access mean?

• Free access to scholarly information

• Worldwide availability without restrictions

• Maximal circulation

• Originated in the beginnings of the 90s in physics

• Benefited from journals‘ crisis

• TUB HH:

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

• German portal for information: http://open-access.net

• http://www.openaccessweek.org




Two ways to Open Access (OA)

• The golden way to OA: Publication in OA journals Directory of Open Access Journal – www.doaj.org • The green way to OA: Self-archiving of documents => “Institutional Repository” Normally allowed through publishers: http://romeo.eprints.org!

Journal Policies - Self-Archiving Policy By Journal




Realizing Open Access at TUHH!

TUBdok as document server – “Institutional Repository” of the TUHH • Free, continuous access to electronic documents • Proof of deposit in local and nation-wide catalogs

doku.b.tu-harburg.de




Handling intellectual property rights

ideally

No transfer of comprehensive rights to publishers! Keep the right of free publication on the net and of reuse in teaching and learning! Use CreativeCommons licences: http://creativecommons.org




Reference management is no art!

Matej Krén, Idiom, Town Library Prague (1998), Foto 2009

Not searching and finding of information is the central challenge today but coping with information!




Citavi on TUBHH website!

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




Searching and gathering metadata

• Never transcribe again! • Saving metadata from catalogs and databases (e.g. by using the RIS format) • Pay attention to character encoding! • Searching within Citavi! • Taking citations from PDFs and web sites! • Use Citavi Picker (Plugin)! • Use the features for knowledge organization!




Alternatives to Citavi:




Ads




Informationen 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 writinmg

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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