How not to reinvent the wheelor Literature Searching for ENCH400

2011

Designing various processing plants Research about process, methods Literature review - find books/journals Find suppliers/costings Compare alternatives Summarise information Design a process

Our mission is…

We already know...

Multisearch Databases – Science Direct, Engineering

Village, Web of Science Springer Link Wikipedia Google Info from lectures

How to do a proper literature review How to enter keywords into databases What to look for Decipher results – reliable / unreliable

Citations

We need to know...

The Literature

You

The Research Process

Define your topic

What information do you need?

Who would have written about it? Where?

Find information

Judge it – is it reliable? relevant?

– does it point in new directions?

– is it enough? or do you still need more?

Analyse and synthesise

Cite all sources!

Subject guide

journal articles,review articles,patents,who’s cited who

search by phraseor by structure

substances,reactions,prices

Chemistry focus

journal articles who’s cited who

search by topic and/or author

aka Compendex

Engineering focus

journal articles,review articles who’s cited who

search by topic and/or author

General science

Evaluating Resources

accurate?

up-to-date?

relevant?

basic/advanced?

Is it… and...

Who is it written for?

What kind of research is it?

How far along is the research?

What questions haven’t they answered yet?

Citing

Using Endnote - 1

Using Endnote - 2

My Grand Chemical Engineering Research Project Thing

Using Endnote - 3

http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/ench

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