sapienza's library resources for engineering researchers mary joan crowley

Sapienza’s library resources for researchersMJ Crowley, DiSG Biblioteca, Sapienza* all images uploaded for educational purposes

… SOME FIGURES

140.000 students

4148 academic staff

4621 administrative, technical, healthcare staff

About 20.000 graduates per year

Over 291 degree programmes (undergraduate and postgraduate)

150 First and Second Level Professional Courses

121 Specialisation Schools (90 health and medical schools)

117 PhD programmes and Schools

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FACULTY OF CIVIL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

• 9 first cycle programmes• 8 second cycle programmes

• 1 single cycle programme• 20 professional courses

• http://www.ing.uniroma1.it/ 28/03/2012Sapienza's library resources for

researchers - mary joan crowley

Sapienza’s libraries for 140000 students, 4148 faculty, 4.621 staff

•59+ Faculty and Department libraries

•3million print monographs and thousands of print journals

•10000+, 24/7 online journals, e-books, data bases, etc.

•25.000+ rare books

•PADIS – Online thesis archive14/04/2011Sapienza's 21st century libraries for a new

generation of users

http://www.zoonar.com/829789

For 600 years the academic library has

• Guaranteed the organized , delivery and preservation of printed and other content

• Provided a staff trained to support the learning, teaching and research needs and output of the university and community

• Offered an agreed schedule in which services are available

• Ensured the physical facilities necessary to support this



Thanks to these changes libaries/ians can offer even more

http://w3.uniroma1.it/biblioteche/


Access off campus - BIXY


Before you start

• Structure the question

• Boolean operators - And + Or Not -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tm-sDKCnO4&feature=related

• Analyse

• Sift and Gather – citation tools

• Copyright issues, plagiarism


Useful databases for engineers

• Crossref IEEE

• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=earthquake+engineering&x=0&y=0


Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management

• multidisciplinary database , abstracts and citations from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.


http://www.asce.org/ - journals, conferences, blogs……

Risorse elettroniche e informazioni specialistiche in biblioteca-DISG-Roma

Inspec

• Inspec coverage is extensive in the fields of physics and computer, control, and mechanical engineering.

• Its subject coverage includes astronomy, electronics, communications, ergonomics, computers & computing, computer science, control engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, and physics.

• http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?sid=012e8ed2-65d9-4566-8b65-1aacf5f41fcb%40sessionmgr115&vid=3&hid=102


SCOPUS http://www.scopus.com/

• bibliographic database • abstracts and citations for academc journal articles • 18,000 titles from over 5,000 international

publishers• 16,500 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific,

technical, medical, and social sciences


WOS http://apps.webofknowledge.com/

• 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings.

• Researcher ID

• Journal Scitation Reports


Google scholar


Content management

• RSS

• Email alert

• Delicious

• Slideshare

• Citation management tools


Citation management tools

• Zotero • https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

• Mendeley • http://www.mendeley.com/

• Endnote web

• https://www.myendnoteweb.com/


Thank you

Biblioteca Ingegneria Strutturale e GeotecnicaSAPIENZA University of Romevia Eudossiana 18 - 00184 ROME Italyoffice: 0644585387e-mail: [email protected]: http://w3.disg.uniroma1.it/biblioteca/Skype: maryjay6

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