Year 4 Project - LRC Presentation

1. LIBRARY RESOURCES MELANIE PARLETTE, BA, MLIS ENGINEERING & IT LIAISON LIBRARY RESOURCE CENTRE CONESTOGA COLLEGE

5. LIBRARY CATALOGUE Q: What can you find in the library catalogue? A: Anything that is physically housed in the library! Let’s take a look…

10. ACADEMIC PUBLISHING PROCESS A researcher carries out research The researcher submits their paper to a journal. The editor reviews it and sends it out to multiple experts for peer review The reviewers examine the article. Sometimes the article might be outright rejected The researcher makes some edits. This process may be repeated until the article meets the standards of the reviewers. The publisher and experts review the paper. The paper is published in the journal Other researchers incorporate the findings in their research People engage with the findings of the article through social media People comment on the article through letters to the editor Open Access is revolutionizing this process.

12. WHAT DO I SEARCH FOR? Mechanical Engineering Electronics Heat Transfer Design Aerodynamics Accuracy and Precision Fluid Mechanics Automation Systems Materials

13. SEARCHING A DATABASE. . .

14. SEARCHING A DATABASE. . . * (the asterisk wildcard) As the name implies, * can be substituted for any number of letters. This is particularly useful to include all words with a certain term and any suffix after it. Simply apply the asterisk to the end of a term and it will return all documents containing that term, followed by anything. For example: biostatistic* will find biostatistician or biostatistics or biostatistical

15. SEARCHING A DATABASE. . . Quotation Marks: " " Enclose specific phrases in quotation marks. This will direct the search engine to search the database for documents containing that exact phrase. A search for analytical chemist (without quotes) will return any document containing analytical and chemist with anything in between. If you place quotes around the phrase, searching for “facility management“ it will only documents with facility and management right beside each other.

16. WHAT IS GOOGLE SCHOLAR? A search interface for locating citations to academic research—and accessing the full-text online (sometimes). This is the definition of any research database. Google Scholar is just one more in a host of research tools similar to those offered by the library (but using it is free to all). Reading articles found in it is not free (not always, anyway).