Library Workshop ECET 401

Fall, 2009

Librarian: Haymwantee Singh

Professors Ron Rockland and Alex Blinder

singhh@njit.edu, 973-596-8498

Library Workshop ECET 401

Assignment 1 – Differentiate between a book and an article.

Book vs ArticleBook: Williams, Karl P., Build your own

humanoid robot, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Citation Elements Of This Book Are:• Author: Williams, Karl P• Title of book: Build your own

humanoid robot• Place of Publication: New York • Publisher: McGraw-Hill • Date: 2004

Article: Adams, B.; Breazeal, C.; Brooks, R.A.; Scassellati, B., "Humanoid robots: a new kind of tool,“IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, vol.15, no.4, pp.25-31, Jul/Aug 2000

Citation Elements Of This Article Are:• Author: Adams, B.; Breazeal, C.;

Brooks, R.A.; Scassellati, B.• Title of Article: "Humanoid robots: a

new kind of tool," • Source Title: IEEE Intelligent Systems

and Their Applications, • Volume: vol.15• Issue: no.4• Pages: pp.25-31 • Date: Jul/Aug 2000

ObjectivesObjectives

• Determine your information requirements for your research question

• Locate and retrieve relevant information using scholarly websites and resources

• Evaluate the quality of a website

• Use bibliographic tools for citing your sources

Workshop TopicsWorkshop Topics

• Library Homepage

• Web Research

• Database Research

• Wikipedia

• Bibliography & Citing Resources

List of Engineering TechnologyDatabases

Research Databases for ETResearch Databases for ET

• ASME journals online – mechanical engineering• Academic Search Premier – general • IEEE Xplore – Electrical and Computer Engineering• Science Direct – science, engineering, etc• Scopus – science, technology, medicine, business• ReferenceUSA – gives company and industry info.• Patents• Business Source Premier – business information• Lexis Nexis – law and ethics

How do I find scholarly information on prosthetic legs?

www.scitopia.org

www.google.com

Scitopia.org is a free federated search tool for scholarly literature of various leading science and technology publishers.

TOPICS

AUTHOR

PUBS

prosthesis

IEEE is a society

ExpandTOPICS

here

Find the pdf of this IEEE article at the library.

Find the IEEE Xplore database

Select the letter “I”

Database isIEEE XPLORE.

Select advancedSearch option.

Type in the title words of the article

PDF is here.

Select this item

Select the productgoogle scholar and execute

the same search.

Notice that your searchset has been reduced.

Page down!

Select this item.

More of the pdf

More of the pdf

More of the pdf – article includes

useful bibliography

Let’s go deeper into googlescholar on the next page.

Select the option “Advanced Scholar Search”.

Add the exact phrase:“state of the art” and select the

subjects engineering and medicine.

Click on each of these items.

Notice that our total has been now reduced

further.

See our journals list:http://library.njit.edu/journals/index.php

How do I find Company Information?How do I find Company Information?

• Find Company profile information in Reference USA database

• Find articles on companies and industry in Business Source Premier database

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xx Company is located in Illinois

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ReferenceUSA database is a commercial productavailable at Jersey Clicks via our library at:http://library.njit.edu/databases/index.php

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References and links on Good Manufacturing Practices

Evaluate Web ResourcesEvaluate Web Resources

1. Authority2. Accuracy3. Currency4. ObjectivityFor more go to:

http://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/evaluate.php

Types of websites

.edu educational (often contain student pages as well as scholarly research).gov governmental (usually dependable).com commercial (may be trying to sell a product and may have inaccuracies) .net network (may provide services to commercial or individual customers).org organization (non-profit institutions; note the source of funding, may be biased).mil military.biz Commercial use (selling a product)

Purposes of web resources

• Commercial• Informative• Educational• Entertaining• Advocacy – promote, sponsoring, suuport• Persuasive – influence, convince• Hoax• Institutional

How to Evaluate Information – video tutorial

2 websites are compared and discussed with respect to 4 important criteria for evaluating web resources

1. Authority2. Accuracy3. Currency4. Objectivity

http://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/evaluate.php(presented by Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener

University located in Chester Pennysylvania

Questions to ask about a website to determine the quality

• What type of web page is this?• What is its purpose?• Who is the author of this page?• Who is the audience?• When was the page last updated?• Is there a contact? If yes, note the contact.• Does it list scholarly sources?• Does the author have a bias or agenda? (Is this bias

stated or hidden?)

Cite Your Sources

Use programs such as KnightCite, NoodleBib, Express or Citation Machine to create a bibliography in MLA or APA style. See library’s homepage:

http://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/cite.php

Cite

Workshop TopicsWorkshop Topics

Select othergoogle products