Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Seminar: Library Resources May Yan BASc MISt Electronic Resources Librarian Ryerson University Library

Agenda Library Physical Space Services for Graduate Students including workshops Known item searching IEEEXplore Overview Engineering Village 2 Overview Other Resources Standards & Patents & Research Guides When it’s not in our collection Citation Management Staying Current / Your research profile Research Help

Ryerson University Library 350 Victoria St. 2 nd Floor [Now open until 1am everyday!] Your OneCard is your library card 2 nd Floor: Research Help, Circulation, IT Help Laptops to borrow & computer labs [2, 3, 6 Flr]

Graduate Student Support

Library Quick Search From the library home page Look here for books, AV, and many journals Particularly useful for when you know article title [bibliography/footnote chasing] Search Journals by Title [Use the Journals A-Z]

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Research Guides

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Learn to use IEEE User Guides IEEE Xplore Digital Library Training Live Online Training Self-Paced Tutorials

Engineering Village Our interface to search Compendex, INSPEC, GeoRef and Geobase Overview video, Thesauri video Overview videoThesauri video

Other Resources Web of Science Scopus Knovel (reference) ENGnetbase (ebooks) Publisher platforms: ScienceDirect, Wiley etc. See our list of resources: –

Standards Patents & Research Guides Locate: Library home page -> Articles – Article Databases by Name (A-Z) ASTM International Standards Selected CSA Standards via TechstreetTechstreet – Ordering by Request (Give me some lead time!) Research Guides – Patent Information Patent Information – Theses and Dissertations Theses and Dissertations – Standards Standards

When it’s not available in library - Interlibrary Loan RACER lets you to borrow items and obtain articles from other libraries if materials are not owned by the Ryerson University Library. Use ILL for getting articles that Ryerson does not have in print or online. Recommendations for purchases for our collection: with

Proper Citation Academic Integrity Required in scholarly publishing Challenge: styles vary by journal Solution: – Think of citation when you are researching and as you write. – Use tools to make it easier (esp IEEE format etc)

Citation Management You have access to following for free: – Zotero Zotero – Mendeley (Contact me if you need a pro account for working with groups etc.) Mendeley – Endnote Web (Create a Web of Science account and then login to EndNote on WOS, afterwards, you should be able to login to myendnoteweb directly. Must reactivate account via WOS annually.) Endnote Web But consider others:consider others Papers, Colwiz, Citavi, EndNote and more PapersColwizCitaviEndNote

Suggestions to Staying Current Table of Contents service: RSS, s Saved searches: RSS and s Google Alerts: Twitter – conferences, associations, leading researchers, journals Academic Social Networks – – Academic.edu – Mendeley

Your Research Profile Ryerson Institutional Repository - Google indexed! Ryerson Institutional Repository Google Scholar Profile OrcID researcherID Mendeley Profile Researchgate Academia.edu

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