ECE 4445 Tools for Gathering Information 2009

ECE 4445 Tools for gathering information Dan Sich, ECE Librarian Allyn and Betty Taylor Library

Overview
Background info in books
In-depth info in articles
Articles in databases
Highly-cited articles
Getting full text

Background info
Google, Wikipedia
Books & eBooks

Library catalogue
Everything the library owns
Books, eBooks, journals, eJournals
No journal articles

Library catalogue
What is the most relevant book Taylor Library has on “image segmentation”? What is the date of publication, title, call number, location and availability?
What is the newest book the library has that contains the Subject “ Human face recognition (Computer science) ”? What is the ISBN?

ENGnetBASE
Online engineering handbooks
Many CRC handbooks
Full text PDFs

ENGnetBASE
What is the most relevant eBook chapter or article in ENGnetBASE on the topic of “face recognition”? What book is it in?
In the same chapter or article, where is the first occurrence of the phrase “image processing”?
Who is the author(s) of the first reference given at the end of Chapter 9?

Journal articles
Peer-reviewed, detailed information
Article databses:
Google Scholar
IEEE Xplore
SPIE Digital Library
Inspec & Compendex
Scopus
Web of Science

Google Scholar
Easy to use
Set Scholar Preferences > Library Links
Link to Get it @ Western
Shows number of citations

Google Scholar
Search for the phrase “centre-line tracking”. What are the article title and journal title for the most highly-cited article? Does UWO have access to it? Could you access it after graduating?
Is everything in Google Scholar? Is everything in Google Scholar peer-reviewed? Is everything in Google Scholar available online?

IEEE Xplor e
IEEE publications
Journal articles, conference proceedings
Full text
IEEE only

IEEE Xplore
Search for “deformable models”. What’s the article and journal title for the first result? When was it published? Who published it?
Can you access full text? Once you graduate, will you still have access?

SPIE publications
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Journal articles, conference proceedings
Full text
SPIE only

Search for “deformable models”. What’s the article and journal title for the first result? When was it published? Who published it?
Can you access full text? Once you graduate, will you still have access?

Inspec & Compendex
Inspec: ECE, IT, Physics
Compendex: Engineering
Search both at once
Refine Results
Get it @ Western

Inspec & Compendex
Search for the phrase “deformable models” AND “3D” from 2000-present, English language only. How many results do you get?
Who are the top 3 authors? What are the top 10 publishers
For the first result, can you get full text?
Do we have full text access to everything in Inspec & Compendex?
Will you be able to access Inspec & Compendex after graduation?

Scopus
Multi-disciplinary
Find references
Find citations
Number of citations?
Highly cited articles?
Get it @ Western

Scopus
Search for the phrase “image segmentation.” How many results? What are the article title and journal title for the most highly-cited article? How many times has it been cited? How old is it? Does UWO have access to it? Could you access it after graduating? How many references does it have? Of those references, which one is the most highly cited? When was this reference published?

Web of Science
Multi-disciplinary; narrow to Science Citation Index
Find references
Find citations
Number of citations?
Highly cited articles?
Get it @ Western

Web of Science
Search for the phrase “image segmentation.” How many results? What are the article title and journal title for the most highly-cited article? How many times has it been cited? How old is it? Does UWO have access to it? Could you access it after graduating? Of those articles that have cited this article, which one is the most highly cited? How many references does it (the first article) have?

Getting articles
Get it @ Western 
Library catalogue  
Free on the web? 
Interlibrary Loan 

Off-Campus Access
for eBooks, ENGnetBASE
for databases
for eJournals
You can’t do this after graduating

Recap
Background info in books
In-depth info in articles
Articles in databases:
Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, SPIE Digital Library (full text), Inspec & Compendex (engineering), Scopus, Web of Science (citations)
Highly-cited articles
Getting full text

Questions?
Dan Sich dsich2@uwo.ca
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