TUHH
The world of
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
process engineering
information
Points and tips
to survive!
is not enough!
…
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TUHH Look at your own
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
information behavior!
Sharpen your awareness for:
Doubt!
Curiosity!
• Information sources “beyond
Google”
• Critical use of electronic
databases
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TUHH For first orientation!
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
• Encyclopedias and reference works
• Subject gateways
• Your local academic library
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TUHH Use encyclopedias and other
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
reference works
• Ullmann's Encyclopedia of
Industrial Chemistry
(6.ed., 2002, 40 volumes)
Online in TUHH-Intranet!
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia
of Chemical Technology
(5.ed., 2004-2007)
• Encyclopedia of catalysis
(2003, 6 volumes)
• Encyclopedia of ethical, legal,
and policy issues in
biotechnology (2000).
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TUHH Use subject gateways
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Intute - the best Web resources for education
and research http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Engineering Subject Gateway of the
TIB/UB, the German National Library of
Science and Technology
http://vifatec.tib.uni-
hannover.de/index.php3?L=e
U.S. National Center for Biotechnology
Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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TUHH The TUHH library
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
– open for all!
• www.tub.tu-harburg.de
• Personal consulting:
Service desks in reading rooms, phone,
E-Mail, Chat!
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TUHH
The TUHH Library
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
The catalog – the
heart of the library!
Access to complete
holdings!
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Readings rooms
• Reference works and
Encyclopedias
• Journals
• Subject groups
• Textbook collection
Digital Library
• E-Books Closed Stacks
• E-Journals
• Databases
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TUHH Exercise
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Find books - as much as possible –
on a specific subject in the
catalog of the TUHH library!
„Recycling of plastics“
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TUHH Play! With search terms!
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Make a search term diagram:
Topic: Recycling of plastics by biotechnological methods
Component 1 Component 2 Component 3
recycl? plasti? biotech?
reuse polymer? biodegrad?
wiederverw? kunststoff? microbi?
verwert? PVC
Component 1 AND Component 2 AND Component 3
where e.g.
Component 2 = (plasti?) OR polymer? OR kunststoff? OR...
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TUHH Exercise
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Find the journal „Science“ in the
catalog of the TUHH library!
How to get the fulltext of a journal article?
A. S. Mikhailov und G. Ertl (1996):
Nonequilibrium structures in condensed systems.
Science 272 (5268): 1596-1597.
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TUHH Play! With databases!
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Explore database
features:
• Boolean logic
• Wildcard symbols: ? * $
• Neighborhood operators:
Context and phrases
• Search fields:
Basic index, author
field, descriptor fields
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TUHH Search for journal articles in
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
subject-specific databases
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Abstracts
(CEABA-VtB)
- papers from the `70s until today
INSPEC (Information Service in Physics, Electronics,
Computer and Control)
- interdisciplinary, because IT plays a considerable
role in all areas of engineering today
Web of Science with Science Citation Index
- interdisciplinary! Who cited a specific document?
How much is a document cited?
(Access to these reference databases only in TUHH intranet)
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Journal articles via databases:
TUHH
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Diversity and outcome
Database GVK-Plus CEABA, Publishers‘ Google
(GBV) INSPEC, Web portals, e.g. Scholar, BASE
of Science SpringerLink
Contents articles, books, Articles, articles, books, articles, books,
and more (conference book chapters files, and more
papers)
Searchable bibliographical bibliographical bibliographical full text
contents description description, description,
abstracts abstracts, full
text
Contents printed and diverse only publisher, who knows? 8-)
from electronic publishers here e.g.
holdings of Springer
libraries
Access to directly, through other directly, in case directly, access
full text through library databases or access is part maybe
in print or interlibrary of subscription restricted
ordering via loan
interlibary loan
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TUHH Patents for talents!
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
About 60 % of the information in patents is
not published elsewhere
DEPATISnet - the German patent information
system at http://depatisnet.dpma.de
esp@cenet – European Patent Office
http://ep.espacenet.com
Search the fulltext of US patents via the US
Patent and Trademark Office at
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/
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TUHH Searching for
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
substance properties’ data
In reference works
(CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Perry's Chemical
Engineers' Handbook, Aldrich Catalog)
In extensive substance property collections
(„Handbooks“)
(Landolt-Börnstein Numerical data and functional relationships in
science and technology, Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and
Organometallic Chemistry, Beilstein Handbook of Organic
Chemistry)
Via the net
(e.g. NIST Chemistry WebBook at webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
or the Physical Properties Sources Index (PPSI) at
www.eqi.ethz.ch)
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TUHH Keeping up-to-date
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
by
• browsing through journal contents
Free table of contents via email
Journal websites of publishers
GBV Online Contents Databases
• reading weblogs
like Chemical Engineering World
at http://chem-eng.blogspot.com
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using RSS feeds
•
e.g. www.bloglines.com/public/thapke
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TUHH Reflect about information
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
How to cite? What can I
copy? Thinking about
intellectual property!
What is not included in
Google? Danger of monopoly
of information access?
Costs of scholarly journals?
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TUHH For more information
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Please look at
www.tub.tu-harburg.de
Contact:
Thomas Hapke
Phone 42878 3365
Mail: hapke@tu-harburg.de
Library Webpage for Project Design
Course (Process Engineering) 2009
at www.tub.tu-harburg.de/2963.html
„The world of engineering information“
(10 points to survive)
at www.tub.tu-harburg.de/2552.html
Graphics: D. Bieler
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