Information SKL for Graduate Students Instructor: Sina Mater 18 November 2011

Course Calender Lesson 118 Nov IL, defining research topic, effective search strategies, additional sources and supported services. Lesson 225 NovOrganize and manage information: LaTeX

Why we have to be “Information Literate” by Alphan Sennaroğlu

MAIN OBJECTIVE The main objective of this tutorial is to teach you how to conduct a library search Through this tutorial, you will gain basic information literacy skills

INFORMATION LITERACY  Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information. (ACRL)

Researching Process Curiosity Assignment Subject Reference resources Basic Research Making a question from your subject Question Selecting keywords/search terms Deep Research Result of your research Hypothesis

Types of Information Resources Print Books Reference Resources Journals Electronic E-Books E-Reference Resources E-Journals Databases Internet Online Library Catalogs

Researching Process for “Renewable Energy”

Basic Research Before starting your research, locate and read short articles that will give you a broad overview of the topic These articles can be found in encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, etc., which are also called reference sources Source: Oxford Reference Online Source: Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Limitation of subject Renewable Energy Genre Solar Energy Device Electric vehicles Component/ Material Crystalline silicon Energy System Photovoltaic Effect “Solar energy for electric vehicles” “Crystalline silicon and photovoltaic effect”

Selecting Keyword Topic: “Crystalline silicon and photovoltaic effect” Question: “How crystalline silicon solar cells reflect photovoltaic effect ? ” Keywords: “Crystalline, silicon, photovoltaic, effect”

DATABASES Web of Science IEEE Explore Royal Society of Chemistry MathSciNet

Database Title Web of Science Subject Area (s) Nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Technical Information Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login. Updates Updated daily Type (Formats) Citation Database Print+Save+E- mail Has print, save and options. Search Options Analyzing search results by author, subject or journal, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), wildcards to search for variants of words, Phrase search without quotation marks, hyphenated and unhyphenated variants of the same term, SAME operator, Chemical formulas

Phrase Searching You can keep words together as a phrase by enclosing them in quotes “”. Ex: “Information Literacy Standards”, “Organizational Behaviour” or “Game Theory”

Database Title IEL: IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Subject Area (s)It covers electrical and electronical engineering, computer sciences, information technologies, control technologies, biomedical engineering and physics. Technical Information Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login. UpdatesUpdated continuously Type (Formats)Journal Package / Proceedings / Standards Print+Save+ Has print, save and options. Search Options Truncation and wildcard characters (like ?, *), Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). Stop words (like the, an, of...etc.)

Database Title Royal Society of Chemistry Subject Area (s) Chemistry. Technical Information Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Updates Updated continuously Type (Formats) Journal Package Print+Save+E- mail Has print and save options. Search Options Find results ; with all of the words, with the exact phrase, with any of the words, without the words.

Use the truncation symbol * to find articles containing several words with the same root Ex: Type educat* to find "educator“, "educators“, "educated“, "educating“, etc. The “?” symbol is used as a substitute for a missing character in a search term, usually when you are unsure of a spelling or when you want to find two forms of one word. Ex: If you enter WOM?N to a search box, it will locate records containing either "woman" or "women".

Structure Drawing Tools eMolecules.com ACD/ChemSketch: A complete software package for drawing chemical structures.ACD/ChemSketch

Database Title MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society) Subject Area (s) Mathematics Technical Information Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login. Type (Formats) Review Print+Save+E- mail Has print and save options. Search Options Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), Wildcard character(*), Quotation marks for searching with exact phrases

Open Access Resources Finding Articles: –arXiv Finding Thesis: –DART-Europe Finding Patents: –Free Patents Online

Finding Articles: arXiv: is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University. Open Access Resources

Finding Thesis: DART-Europe: is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. Open Access Resources

Finding Patents from web Patents about Crystalline Silicon Process “Process for producing amorphous and crystalline silicon nitride” Free Patents Online Google Patents

Article Requests  Patrons can request articles from journals not available in the Library’s Collection or in the electronic databases to which it subscribes.  Please, check the library holdings and online full- text databases first before sending your request to us.  Article request services are free of charge  5 articles at a time, free of charge  Online articles will be sent to your address

Inter-Library Loan Book Request (ILL) Patrons can request books not available in the Library’s Collection or in the electronic databases to which it subscribes. Please, check the library collection and online full-text databases first before sending your request to us. ILL request services are free of charge 5 ILL books at a time, free of charge

Please feel free to consult Reference librarians at any stage of your research for further help.

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