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Use the Library & its Resources to Your Advantage MAE 4310

Introduction to Automatic Control

Library Introduction Library Research Assignment

Fall 2013

Librarian contact: SEL Reference Desk

Key Assignment – Survey the literature using

library resources, formulate a solution to the engineering problem given in class. Summarize a specific journal article relevant to the problem jointly with the solution in form of a written report.

Science & Engineering LibraryNedderman Hall Basement

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Searching for technical papers

Using UTA Library Resources Databases

Aerospace & High Technology Database AIAA Online Technical Information: Meeting Papers Engineering Village (Compendex) DTIC Public STINET NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) IEEE Xplore ScienceDirect

Some databases provide full-text of articles and some are to be used in conjunction with another database

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Some databases will provide full-text of articles and some are to be used in conjunction with another database

Especially true for Aerospace & High Technology Database AIAA Online Technical Information: Meeting Papers

Engineering Village potentially links to full-text in IEEE Xplore ScienceDirect

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Aerospace & High Technology Database

Coverage: 1962-present; (some older documents; some sources full text)

Known as the Aerospace Database, the online version of International Aerospace Abstracts. Indexes AIAA meeting papers, journal articles, reports from NASA and other US and international agencies. Covers basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences.

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Engineering Village (Compendex)

Coverage: 1969-present Some full-text availability Features

Create personal account Export citations to RefWorks bibliographic

citation manager Email alerts

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DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center)

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UTA Libraries Online – Navigating to these databases

Library website Places to know

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Finding Electronic Journals with Full-text

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Things to Keep in Mind

Do not limit your research to full-text database only The citation or citation & abstract may be located in one database,

but the full-text article may be found in another database. The full-text articles may be found in journals that the UTA Libraries

only has in print format Do not search for journal articles in the online catalog. Search for

specific journals or books Use the research databases to look for journal articles, conference &

proceedings papers Use the online catalog to search for books (e.g. Aircraft control and

simulation) , whole journals (e.g. Journal of guidance control and dynamics), theses and dissertations, video-recordings, technical reports

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Typical Documents Necessary for Research in Engineering

Journal articles Conference articles Conference proceedings Monograph (book)

chapter Monograph (book)

review Bibliographies or

references in an journal article or book

Papers presented at conferences, congresses, meetings, symposia, workshops

Report chapter Report review Technical papers Dissertation Theses Unpublished paper

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Periodical Indexes and or Abstracts

Includes citation information (author, article title, journal name, volume/issue, publisher, page numbers)

Citations with abstracts (summary or quick review of record)

Many full-text documents available online Subject headings Other search fields

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Periodical Title Abbreviations

Citations and cited references may have the journal in an abbreviated form.

A journal’s name may be cited in abbreviated form in some references.Use the following source to determine the journal’s full name:Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Abbreviation Location: Science & Engineering Library Reference CollectionCall number: PN 4710 .Z997

Another source is All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation SourcesAvailable online http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm

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WorldCat Can be used in conjunction with Interlibrary Loan Service

Ask for assistance if needed.

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Other Important Stuff to Know

Remote Access Instructions http://library.uta.edu/help/dbHelp.jsp#netID

18 Wireless laptops in SEL (Science & Engineering Library) for 24-hour checkout

3 Group Study Rooms in SEL Each with Smartboard & whiteboard Each with PC can be connected to Smartboard

2 Printers 1 Photocopy Machines in SEL Scanners Reserves & Electronic Reserves

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Online Catalog Guided Search

Highlight what you want search engine to search

Use Library Catalog to finda specific book, authors of books, or specific journals

Library Catalog does not index individual articles from journals or chapters in books

Guided Search-Keyword searching-more flexibility

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Course Reserves – What does your professor have on Reserve ??

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Good Advice: Avoid Plagiarism

Simply stated: DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! Plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s thoughts, ideas, or intellectual

content and claiming them as your own. In other words, you are not giving credit to the source of the thoughts, ideas, or intellectual content.

That was my own definition of plagiarism Acknowledge your sources. Give credit where credit is due. References (Citations, bibliography) Plagiarism has dreadful consequences Use RefWorks (more on that later in presentation)

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Avoid Plagiarizing: Cite Your Sources Acknowledge or cite sources you use:

Someone’s own ideas, or theory Facts or statistics Graphs or drawings Quotations of someone’s actual spoken or written words If not using quotation, but someone’s idea, spoken or written words

-- Paraphrase If the information is Not “common knowledge”, you must cite your

source Citation tells you, who wrote the article, title of the article, when

it was published, the name of the source/journal and where you can find the specific article Author(s) - Publication date - Title of article – Source (Title of

journal or magazine) - Volume and (issue) – Page numbers

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Paraphrasing

Original “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a

house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every

man; the living should take this to heart. ” Ecclesiastes 7:2 New International Version

Paraphrase by an author of the passage above “You may feel it’s morbid to think about death, but

actually it’s unhealthy to live in denial of death and not consider what is inevitable.” Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, (Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 2002)

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RefWorks – Found in the A-Z list of Databases Add citations from library databases to

your own personalized “RefWorks” database

Requires a log-in name and password – Create an account – no charge

Ways to add citations to your RefWorks account: direct importing, text file importing, creating entries “from scratch”

Create folders to organize citations

Perform searches within your RefWorks account

Create bibliographies in the appropriate style format “instantly” e.g. ASME, IEEE, APA, etc.

Use “Write-N-Cite” to insert in-text citations into a paper

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Helpful Information to Learn Why & How to Avoid Plagiarism

UTA Student Affairs Judicial Affairs http://www.uta.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/academic_int

egrity.php

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Tutorial from UTA Librarieshttp://library.uta.edu/tutorials/Plagiaris

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More Things to Keep in Mind

Books, articles, etc. may have to be requested via the Interlibrary Loan service

https://illiad.uta.edu/illiad/ Plan Ahead, allow 2 weeks turn-around time

TexShare Card if you want to use other Texas Libraries. Online application

https://library.uta.edu/borrowing/texshareCard.jsp List of participants:

http://www.texshare.edu/generalinfo/about/programs.html