ece 4445 tools for gathering information 2009

ECE 4445Tools for gathering information

Dan Sich, ECE Librarian

Allyn and Betty Taylor Library

Overview

Background info in books In-depth info in articles Articles in databases Highly-cited articles Getting full text

Background info

Google, Wikipedia Books & eBooks

Library catalogue

Everything the library owns Books, eBooks, journals, eJournals No journal articles

Library catalogue

What is the most relevant book Taylor Library has on “image segmentation”? What is the date of publication, title, call number, location and availability?

What is the newest book the library has that contains the Subject “Human face recognition (Computer science)”? What is the ISBN?

ENGnetBASE

Online engineering handbooks Many CRC handbooks Full text PDFs

ENGnetBASE

What is the most relevant eBook chapter or article in ENGnetBASE on the topic of “face recognition”? What book is it in?

In the same chapter or article, where is the first occurrence of the phrase “image processing”?

Who is the author(s) of the first reference given at the end of Chapter 9?

Journal articles Peer-reviewed, detailed information Article databses:

Google Scholar IEEE XploreSPIE Digital Library Inspec & CompendexScopusWeb of Science

Google Scholar

Easy to use Set Scholar Preferences > Library Links Link to Get it @ Western Shows number of citations

Google Scholar

Search for the phrase “centre-line tracking”. What are the article title and journal title for the most highly-cited article? Does UWO have access to it? Could you access it after graduating?

Is everything in Google Scholar? Is everything in Google Scholar peer-reviewed? Is everything in Google Scholar available online?

IEEE Xplore

IEEE publications Journal articles, conference proceedings Full text IEEE only

IEEE Xplore

Search for “deformable models”. What’s the article and journal title for the first result? When was it published? Who published it?

Can you access full text? Once you graduate, will you still have access?

SPIE Digital Library

SPIE publications Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation

Engineers Journal articles, conference proceedings Full text SPIE only

SPIE Digital Library

Search for “deformable models”. What’s the article and journal title for the first result? When was it published? Who published it?

Can you access full text? Once you graduate, will you still have access?

Inspec & Compendex

Inspec: ECE, IT, Physics Compendex: Engineering Search both at once Refine Results Get it @ Western

Inspec & Compendex Search for the phrase “deformable models” AND

“3D” from 2000-present, English language only. How many results do you get?

Who are the top 3 authors? What are the top 10 publishers

For the first result, can you get full text? Do we have full text access to everything in Inspec &

Compendex? Will you be able to access Inspec & Compendex

after graduation?

Scopus

Multi-disciplinary Find references Find citations Number of citations? Highly cited articles? Get it @ Western

Scopus Search for the phrase “image segmentation.”

How many results? What are the article title and journal title for the most highly-cited article? How many times has it been cited? How old is it? Does UWO have access to it? Could you access it after graduating? How many references does it have? Of those references, which one is the most highly cited? When was this reference published?

Web of Science

Multi-disciplinary; narrow to Science Citation Index

Find references Find citations Number of citations? Highly cited articles? Get it @ Western

Web of Science Search for the phrase “image segmentation.”

How many results? What are the article title and journal title for the most highly-cited article? How many times has it been cited? How old is it? Does UWO have access to it? Could you access it after graduating? Of those articles that have cited this article, which one is the most highly cited? How many references does it (the first article) have?

Getting articles

1. Get it @ Western 2. Library catalogue 3. Free on the web? 4. Interlibrary Loan

Off-Campus Access

for eBooks, ENGnetBASE for databases for eJournals You can’t do this after graduating

Recap Background info in books In-depth info in articles Articles in databases:

Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, SPIE Digital Library (full text), Inspec & Compendex (engineering), Scopus, Web of Science (citations)

Highly-cited articles Getting full text

Questions?

Dan Sich dsich2@uwo.ca

Subject line: ECE 4445 question