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Using UCD Library….Accessing Online Resources Anywhere, Anytime

Julia Barrett (UCD Library)June 2011

Overview

• Information overload

• Different types of resources

• Using Google and Google Scholar

• Using more specialised databases: IEEE and ACM

• Locating quality websites

EN ROUTE….

• Planning and constructing searches

• Getting to the end article

• More information and assistance

Information overload....HELP!

• There’s too much information out there...

• I don’t know where to start looking...

• I don’t know what the best sources are for my research...

• I don’t know how to get to the most relevant sources...

Different types of resources: Journals

• An academic journal contains specialised articles or original research written by authorities in a field (peer- reviewed)

• Generally available electronically

Different types of resources: Conference Papers

• An original paper that is presented at a discipline-specific conference.

• May subsequently be published in its Proceedings

• Cutting edge research is often publicly introduced this way

• Important in fast-changing disciplines

I’m looking for information on General Purpose Programming on Graphical

GOOGLE

• Organisations

• Encyclopaedia entries

• Educational materials

• Company information

• Research and development– Etc.

Limit search to .ppt (filetype) and .edu (US universities)

Further limit to last 2 years

Google Scholar: articles, papers & books

Plan your search: what are your key concepts and how do you link them using OR and AND?

Concept/Theme 1

AND Concept/Theme 2

AND Concept/Theme 3

General purpose programming Graphical processing unitsOR

Graphics processing unitsOR

gpu

= SET 1 AND = SET 2 AND = SET 3

SET 1

SET 3 SET 2

SET 1 AND SET 2 AND SET 3 = the area in the middle of the Venn diagram where all circles overlap i.e. all concepts/themes are present.

This represents an AND search.

Use OR to widen your search to include words of similar meaning.

Use AND to narrow your search to combine different concepts/themes.

An AND search is generally implicit i.e. You don’t need to enter AND between words – it will be assumed.

Match the structure of your search to the functionality of the resource you are using

Google functionality

Entering terms/connectors Entering phrases Using limits

Use an OR search to expand your search by including similar terms and synonyms.

Use either the box in the Advanced Search screen called with at least one of the words; alternatively enter words in the first box called with all of the words, separated by OR (must be upper case)

Use an AND search to combine

In the first search screen use either quotation marks e.g.“mary robinson” or hyphen e.g.mary-robinson In the Advanced Search screen, simply enter your phrase in the with the exact phrase box (i.e. no

Use limits on the Advanced Search screen such as date and subject area.

If you know the name of an author, publication or title enter

Getting to the article/paper....from Google Scholar

Linking to library resources from Google Scholar Preferences

Link your Google Scholar results to UCD Library subscriptions on the Google Scholar Preferences page. This will mean that the Find it @

UCD Library button will be attached to your results.

There’s more to life than Google....

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers): an engineering database that will locate journal and magazine articles and conference papers/proceedings by IEEE and its publishing partners.

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): a computer science database that will locate journal and magazine articles and conference papers published by the ACM. Also includes items from affiliated organisations.

Getting to these more specialised resources

www.ucd.ie/library Computer Science Subject Portal

IEEE

• Online tutorials:– http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/

subscriptions/clientservices/training.html– http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/

subscriptions/clientservices/promote/user_guides.html

• Use the “wildcard”/truncation tool * to indicate a search for a word with alternative endings

IEEE refining & expanding features

• Search within results

• Content type

• Publication Year

• Additional refinements by: Author, Affiliation,

Getting to the article/paper....from the IEEE database

• UCD Library has access to 99% of full-text (whole) article

• Use Quick Abstract button to get an idea of content

• Use AbstractPlus for more in-depth details

• Click PDF button for entire article/paper

• Click check boxes to left of record to save/email search

ACM

• Select ACM from the list of databases available from the Computer Science subject portal

• Select the Advanced Search option

• Enter your concepts, including synonyms

• Select a field in which to search e.g. Abstract. This will reduce results and

Getting to the article/paper....from the ACM database

• Results listing will include items from affiliated organisations e.g. IEEE but will not necessarily link to the full-text.

• Full-text is available only where there is a PDF link.

• Sort by includes option to re-order by citation count.

Getting to an article/paper from a list of references

• Use the Google Scholar Advanced Search screen

• Enter the article or paper title in the “with the exact phrase” box. Exclude punctuation (e.g. colon)

• Enter one author surname to assist with the identification

• Click on Find it @ UCD library link to get to full article

• Check out who has cited this article by clicking on the Cited by 361 button

• Create an email alert so that you are notified by email anytime this article is further cited

Locating quality websites

• In Google search for “software engineering” and add format type to your search e.g. portal OR directory; ~portal

• Check out your results especially the About Us section

• Use a specialist search engine:– http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ CiteseerX is a scientific

literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

– http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ Similar to CiteseerX– http://www.scirus.com/ Comprehensive scientific research

tool – http://www.hub.sciverse.com/action/home Sciverse links

to web sites and journal articles, patents etc

More information and assistance

Julia BarrettJulia.barrett@ucd.ie