CIVIL ENGINEERING ORIENTATION

Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian

Heterick Memorial Library

WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY

Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu Traci Moritz, t-moritz@onu.edu Kathleen Baril, k-baril@onu.edu

Reference Email, reference@onu.edu

Librarians on duty: Monday – Thursday

8:00 AM – 4:30 PM 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Friday 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

121 PERSONAL RESEARCH CONSULTATIONS

Need a little extra help with your research?

Finding plenty of resources, but not exactly what you are looking for?

Has it been suggested by instructor to meet with a librarian?

An in-depth research consultation with the librarian of your choice is available by appointment.

Sessions may run for 30-60 minutes and are designed to assist students with finding and evaluating resources

Schedule an appointment by emailing reference@onu.edu or any librarian

More information

UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF THIS…

UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF THIS…

LIBRARIES AT ONU

Heterick Memorial Library Undergraduate library

and accessible to all students

Taggart Law Library Library for law school

and accessible to all students

WHAT THE LIBRARY OFFERS:

~400,000 items in POLAR, the ONU library catalog

~20,000,000 items in OhioLink 260 Databases 400+ print periodicals Tens of thousands of electronic journal titles Juvenile, Young Adult, and Graphic Novel

collections DVDs, CDs, streaming audiovisuals, and

streaming music

CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA POLAR Catalog – Search for physical and electronic

items (ebooks and ejournals) that are available from Heterick Memorial Library and Taggart Law Library

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH

Looks in several locations Subject Article title Abstracts Table of contents

Does not require an exact match Generates comparatively large number of

hits Good if you are not familiar with terminology Good for a beginning search

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH

Looks at the subject headings in the records Requires an exact match Provides a results list with related headings

to use for broader and narrower searches Generates comparatively smaller number of

hits Good if you are familiar with terminology Good for a next step after a keyword search

CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

POLAR – RESULTS

ebook

Law Library

Heterick Library

CHECKING OUT ITEMS

Checkout and due dates Book check out is for 21 days DVD check out is for 7 days

Renewals Up to 6 renewals, provided no one else has put a

hold on the item Fines

$.10 - $2.00, depending on how overdue and what type of item

Can be paid at the circulation desk My Library Account

POLAR – MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD

Use the entire 11 digit number to login

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

Materials owned by 92 other libraries in Ohio: colleges, universities, public libraries

Can submit request for an item to be delivered to Heterick Memorial Library

Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days No charge to request items (unless they

become overdue) Maximum of 25 requests at a time Items can usually be renewed

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

From POLAR results list: Button will recreate the POLAR search in

OhioLINK From an item record:

Button will go directly to the same item Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out

Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES What is the basic definition of a library database?

A library database is an electronic (online) catalog or index Library databases contain information about published items Library databases are searchable The library subscribes to many databases so the ONU

community has access to these resources. When you’re searching a database, you are not searching “the web.”

What types of items are indexed by library databases? Articles in Journals/Magazines/Newspapers Reference Information (i.e. entries from Encyclopedias,

Dictionaries, etc.) Books & other documents

Source: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/whatisadatabase.htm

WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES

Internet Material from numerous

sources, individuals, government, etc.

Search engines must work with material prepared without regard for specific software

Quality of material varies Generally do not access

for-profit information Content often

anonymous and undated

Databases Usually created by a single

publisher Content pre-arranged for

easy searching Quality-controlled by

editorial staff Most are available only to

subscribers Sources are usually

identified and dated Databases often focus on

a specific subject or discipline, but some cover several areas

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES General

Databases Academic Search

Complete Business Source

Complete JSTOR Lexis-Nexis MasterFILE

Premier MEDLINE with Full

Text

Databases by Subject

FIND ARTICLES – ENGINEERING DATABASES

DATABASESENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX

Quick Reference Guide

DATABASESENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX

Engineering Village is an index-only database There is no full-text available

Abstracts are available Everything has a button that connects to the

ONU Journal Finder

Not everything will actually have full text When in doubt, email the citation to

ill@onu.edu

FIND IT @ ONU

Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where you don’t have full text access to a database where you do have full text access

ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

JOURNAL FINDER

If you know the citation of the article you want or know what journal you want to look at, you can go right to it through the Journal Finder

JOURNAL FINDER

PATENTS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

Special types of documents Not necessarily indexed in a database Harder to find

Civil Engineering Guide Derwent Innovations Index Google Patent Search Governmental webpages

SEARCH

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

POLAR Article-level searching for all EBSCO

databases Article-level searching for a variety of other

databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy, etc.

Title-level searching for most other databases: IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health

OhioLINK Central Catalog

RESULTS: FULL TEXT, POLAR

RESULTS: OHIOLINK

RESULTS: FIND IT @ ONU

RESULTS: ILL When in doubt, email: ill@onu.edu

FACETS: LIMIT YOUR RESULTS

MANAGE INFORMATION - REFWORKS

EXPORT TO REFWORKS

Most databases will have “export”

If there isn’t an export, check for “download”

CITING YOUR SOURCES – PLAGIARISM: DON’T DO IT

CITING YOUR SOURCES

APA The Publication Manual of the American

Psychological Association Psychology, sociology, business, economics,

nursing, social work, criminology MLA

Modern Language Association English, comparative literature, literary criticism,

foreign languages Chicago Manual

History, humanities

SURVIVAL SKILLS

Get to know the librarians Time management Research is a process, not an event Go beyond Google and Wikipedia Use the resources the professors expect you to

use Know the difference between sources and how

to evaluate them for relevancy and scholarship Know how to cite and avoid plagiarism Practices makes perfect What you learn in one class can be used in

other classes