Information Literacy @ SKL for Graduate Students

Instructor:Sina Mater

18 November 2011

smater@ku.edu.tr

Course Calender

Lesson 1 18 NovIL, defining research topic, effective search strategies, additional sources and supported services.

Lesson 2 25 Nov Organize and manage information: LaTeX

Why we have to be “Information Literate” by Alphan Sennaroğlu

MAIN OBJECTIVE

• The main objective of this tutorial is to teach you how to conduct a library search

• Through this tutorial, you will

gain basic information literacy skills

INFORMATION LITERACY

Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information.(ACRL)

Researching Process

Types of Information Resources

Researching Process for “Renewable Energy”

Basic Research• Before starting your research, locate and read short articles that will

give you a broad overview of the topic

• These articles can be found in encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, etc., which are also called reference sources

Source: Oxford Reference Online

Source: Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Limitation of subject

Renewable Energy Genre

Solar Energy

Device

Electric vehicles

Component/Material

Crystalline silicon

Energy System

Photovoltaic Effect

“Solar energy for electric vehicles” “Crystalline silicon and photovoltaic effect”

Selecting Keyword Topic:

“Crystalline silicon and photovoltaic effect”

Question:

“How crystalline silicon solar cells reflect photovoltaic effect ? ”

Keywords:

“Crystalline, silicon, photovoltaic, effect”

DATABASES

• Web of Science

• IEEE Explore

• Royal Society of Chemistry

• MathSciNet

Database Title Web of ScienceSubject Area (s)

Nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

Technical Information

Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login .

Updates Updated daily

Type (Formats)

Citation Database

Print+Save+E-mail Has print, save and e-mail options.

Search Options

Analyzing search results by author, subject or journal, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), wildcards to search for variants of words, Phrase search without quotation marks, hyphenated and unhyphenated variants of the same term, SAME operator, Chemical formulas

Phrase Searching

•You can keep words together as a phrase by enclosing them in quotes “”.

•Ex: “Information Literacy Standards”, “Organizational Behaviour” or “Game Theory”

Phrase Searching

•You can keep words together as a phrase by enclosing them in quotes “”.

•Ex: “Information Literacy Standards”, “Organizational Behaviour” or “Game Theory”

Database Title IEL: IEEE/IEE Electronic LibrarySubject Area (s) It covers electrical and electronical engineering,

computer sciences, information technologies, control technologies, biomedical engineering and physics.

Technical Information

Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login .

Updates Updated continuously

Type (Formats) Journal Package / Proceedings / Standards

Print+Save+E-mail Has print, save and email options.

Search Options Truncation and wildcard characters (like ?, *), Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). Stop words (like the, an, of...etc.)

Database Title Royal Society of ChemistrySubject Area (s) Chemistry .

Technical Information

Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet.

UpdatesUpdated continuously

Type (Formats) Journal Package

Print+Save+E-mail Has print and save options.

Search Options

Find results ; with all of the words, with the exact phrase, with any of the words, without the words.

•Use the truncation symbol * to find articles containing several words with the same root

•Ex: Type educat* to find "educator“, "educators“, "educated“, "educating“, etc.

•The “?” symbol is used as a substitute for a missing character in a search term, usually when you are unsure of a spelling or when you want to find two forms of one word.

•Ex: If you enter WOM?N to a search box, it will locate records containing either "woman" or "women".

•Use the truncation symbol * to find articles containing several words with the same root

•Ex: Type educat* to find "educator“, "educators“, "educated“, "educating“, etc.

•The “?” symbol is used as a substitute for a missing character in a search term, usually when you are unsure of a spelling or when you want to find two forms of one word.

•Ex: If you enter WOM?N to a search box, it will locate records containing either "woman" or "women".

Structure Drawing Tools• eMolecules.com

• ACD/ChemSketch: A complete software package for drawing chemical structures.

Database Title MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society)Subject Area (s) Mathematics

Technical Information

Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login.

Type (Formats) Review

Print+Save+E-mail Has print and save options.

Search Options

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), Wildcard character(*), Quotation marks for searching with exact phrases

Open Access Resources• Finding Articles:

– arXiv

• Finding Thesis:– DART-Europe

• Finding Patents:– Free Patents Online

• Finding Articles:

• arXiv: is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University.

Open Access Resources

http://arxiv.org/

• Finding Thesis:

• DART-Europe: is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

Open Access Resources

http://www.dart-europe.eu/

Finding Patents from web

• Patents about Crystalline Silicon Process

“Process for producing amorphous and crystalline silicon nitride”

• Free Patents Online

• Google Patents

Article Requests Patrons can request articles from journals not

available in the Library’s Collection or in the electronic databases to which it subscribes.

Please, check the library holdings and online full-text databases first before sending your request to us.

Article request services are free of charge 5 articles at a time, free of charge Online articles will be sent to your e-mail address

Inter-Library Loan Book Request

(ILL)

• Patrons can request books not available in the Library’s Collection or in the electronic databases to which it subscribes.

• Please, check the library collection and online full-text databases first before sending your request to us.

• ILL request services are free of charge• 5 ILL books at a time, free of charge

Please feel free to consult Reference librarians at any stage of your research for further help.

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