1. Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Seminar: Library Resources May Yan BASc MISt may.yan@ryerson.ca Electronic Resources Librarian Ryerson University Library

2. 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

3. 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] http://library.ryerson.ca/

4. Graduate Student Support

5. 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]

6. Library home page - http://ryerson.ca/library/

7. Research Guides

8. IEEE Xplore Digital Library

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

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

11. Other Resources Web of Science Scopus Knovel (reference) ENGnetbase (ebooks) Publisher platforms: ScienceDirect, Wiley etc. See our list of resources: – http://learn.library.ryerson.ca/az.php http://learn.library.ryerson.ca/az.php

12. 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

13. 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. http://library.ryerson.ca/services/ill/ Recommendations for purchases for our collection: Email may.yan@ryerson.ca with details.may.yan@ryerson.ca

15. 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)

16. 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

17. Suggestions to Staying Current Table of Contents service: RSS, emails Saved searches: RSS and emails Google Alerts: http://www.google.com/alertshttp://www.google.com/alerts Twitter – conferences, associations, leading researchers, journals Academic Social Networks – http://www.researchgate.net/ http://www.researchgate.net/ – Academic.edu – Mendeley

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

19. Research Help Reference Desk Ask a Librarian Chat Online subject guides Book a Librarian Appointment See http://library.ryerson.ca/guides/http://library.ryerson.ca/guides/