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sclib@nus.edu.sg Central Library Chinese Library Medical Library Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library C J Koh Law Library Music Library Science library

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Outline Overview of library services & resources Ethical use of information & plagiarism Core research databases in Physics Tools for managing your research

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Accessing NUS Libraries Library card Library Hours

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Graduate Students Loan entitlement Max 30 items & 1 RBR Loan period Main shelves books: 28 days RBR: 2hrs/Overnight 3 online renewals for main shelves books Study Carrels (4 hrs per loan) Document Delivery Services (DDS) Intra-library Loan Inter-library Loan Library PrivilegesAdditional Services Demo E-forms

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Resources Services

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Library Resources Nielsen, Michael A., & Chuang, Isaac L. (2010). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Demo Citation of a book

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Library Resources Citation of a book chapter Chapter title Book title Editors YearAuthors Fuka, V., Brechler, J. & Jirk, A. (2010). Modelling of stratified and turbulent flow. In D. T. Mihailovic & C. Gualtieri (Eds.), Advances in environmental fluid mechanics (pp. 67-86). Singapore: World Scientific.

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Library Resources Castro Neto, A. H.; Guinea, F.; Peres, N. M. R.; Novoselov, K. S.; Geim, A. K., The electronic properties of graphene. Rev. Mod. Phys. 2009, 81 (1), 109-162. A. C. Ferrari et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187401 (2006). Journal title/name: reviews of modern physics Citation of a journal article

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Library Proxybookmarklet http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet A browser plugin Use it to quickly check if we have a subscription to the journal & have full-text access to the article Demo

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Before Sep 2003 (Print) After Sep 2003 (e-theses) Purchased theses (Print, CD-ROM) Theses & Dissertations NUS Masters (by research) & PhD theses Non-NUS (Foreign) LINCLINC (Call nos. QC3 for Physics) ScholarBank@NUS Theses databases Repositories of universities LINC Proquest dissertations & theses (Worldwide, UK & Ireland)WorldwideUK & Ireland Guides: Physics, How do I find theses?PhysicsHow do I find theses? Springer theses Demo

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Can you return books at any of the NUS Libraries? Ans: Main shelves books RBR books Always return RBR books at the Loans Desk of the home library. Return through book chutes only if library is closed.

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Login IDs & passwords (FAQs )FAQs Matriculation no. (e.g. A007111X) & Library PIN Check your library account Renew items online Reserve/Place hold Request items in closed stacks Borrow items at self check-out stations NUSNET ID (e.g. A007111) & Password Access NUS networked services/resources, e.g. NUS mails, IVLE Log-in to library portal to use DDS, inter- & intra-library e- forms Access library subscribed e-resources (e.g. e-books, e-journals & databases)

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Login Interfaces

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Strictly for the purpose of research or study Limitations for Copying In a nutshell, Published books (> 10 pages) Not more than one chapter or 10% of number of pages Journals Not more than whole or part of one Article in a Journal unless the Articles relate to the same subject matter. Copying of Library Materials

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Electronic Materials Not more than 10% of the total number of bytes in the Work; or 10% of the total number of words in the Work or 10% of the contents of the Work; or One chapter of the Work, where it exceeds any of the limits set out above Copying of library materials

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E-Resources Appropriate Use Policy

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Avoid Plagiarism In NUS, it is defined as the practice of taking someone elses work or ideas and passing them off as ones own. Source: Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language CommunicationPlagiarism | Breeze presentation NUS plagiarism prevention website http://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism-prevention http://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism-prevention Plagiarism prevention service

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Citation & Bibliography Two places to cite the references you have used (i) Author-date system In-text citation Within a sentence Bibliography/References At the end of the document e.g. APA style (American Psychological Association)

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Citation & Bibliography (ii) Numerical system In-text citation References e.gs. ACS style (American Chemical Society) AIP style (American Institute of Physics) Citation styles guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/citation

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Comparison of reference management software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software Bibliography Management Software Video

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JabRef (LaTeX users) An open source reference management software (Free) Current version 2.9.2, http://jabref.sourceforge.nethttp://jabref.sourceforge.net Java-based -- platform/OS independent Uses BibTeX files (*.bib) as its native format Provides a easy-to-use GUI for editing BibTeX entries Provides filters to import other file format (e.g. *.ris) and data from databases such as Medline, JSTOR, etc

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EndNote Stores and organises references from many sources Inserts these references in a Word document Formats references automatically according to a predefined citation style EndNote Guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/endnote Demo

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Ways to add references to EndNote library EndNote Library Direct export Online search Import PDF Manual input Import file

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Core Physics Databases Subscribed by NUS Libraries INSPEC (Physics, electronics & computing, 1896 --) Compendex (Engineering, 1969 --) Web of Science (Multidisciplinary, 1900 --) Scopus (Multidisciplinary, 1960 --) INSPEC Compendex Web of Science Scopus Preprints: arXiv.org arXiv.org Free: Google Scholar Google Scholar Subject Guides: PhysicsPhysics

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List search terms 1 Form search statement 2 Choose a database 3 Keywords, synonyms, alternative words

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Web of Science Core Collection One of the largest citation index 52 million papers, 800 million citations Multidisciplinary Organised into 250 categories covering Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Content: Journals, conference proceedings Year coverage: 1900 -- present Updated weekly (Thomson Reuters, 2013)

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Citation Network in Web of Science 2000 Times Cited Cited References 1999 2000 1988 2006 2004 2009 2005 1997 2000 2001 Related Records

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Topic Study of electronic structure of graphene using spectroscopic ellipsometry and ultrafast pump- probe techniques

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Operators Function ANDResults must contain all search terms (To narrow searches) waves and interference ORResult contains either of the search terms (To broaden searches) handphone or mobile phone or cellular phone Truncation *, ?, $ enzym* enzyme, enzymes, enzymatic, enzymology (zero to many characters) synthesi?e synthesise, synthesize (one character) colo$r color, colour (zero or one character) Phrase searching Search for exact phrase electromagnetic field Proximity Operators NEAR, SAME Used to specify search terms appearing in the same sentence. fiber NEAR composites Parenthesis ( )Use for grouping of words/phrases & to specify order of search

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Managing search results Read review articles for historical development of a subject Refine by subject, etc Identify high impact papers Trace research progress using citations

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Current Awareness Consider subscribing to Publisher & journal alerting services Database alerting services e.g. Saved search alert Citation alerts RSS feeds

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Journal Impact Factor Average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year Impact Factor = Cites in 2012 to 2010 & 2011 articles No. of articles published in 2010 &2011 (2012) A journal having an Impact Factor of 2.5 means on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited two and a half times

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Journal citation reports

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Journal immediacy index Average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published Indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited Immediacy Index no. of citations (in current year) no. of articles (in current year) (in current year) =

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Library Links in Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Importing to EndNote

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Library Portal, http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg LINC (Library online catalogue), http://www.linc.nus.edu.sg http://www.linc.nus.edu.sg FindMore, http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com/ http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com/ NUS Libraries guides, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/libraryhelp http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/libraryhelp Physics subject guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/physics http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/physics Library proxy bookmarklet, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet How to search for theses?, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findthesis http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findthesis FindMore guide, http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findmore http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findmore E-Books guide, ht tp://libguides.nus.edu.sg/ebooksht tp://libguides.nus.edu.sg/ebooks Library FAQs, http://libfaq.nus.edu.sg/ http://libfaq.nus.edu.sg/ ScholarBank@NUS, http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/ http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/ NUS plagiarism prevention website, http://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism- prevention http://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism- prevention Links to resources

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Postgraduate Student Resources (Compiled by NUS CDTL) http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/pg/resources/ http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/pg/resources/ EndNote training (Thomson Reuters) http://endnote.com/training http://endnote.com/training Web of Science training (Thomson Reuters) http://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining http://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining Early Career Researchers (Elsevier) http://www.elsevier.com/early-career-researchers/home http://www.elsevier.com/early-career-researchers/home Other Links

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Upcoming events ACS on Campus 10-11 April (Tentative)

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