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1. How not to reinvent the wheel or Literature Searching for ENCH400 2011

2. Our mission is… Designing various processing plants Research about process, methods Literature review - find books/journals Find suppliers/costings Compare alternatives Summarise information Design a process

3. We already know... Multisearch Databases – Science Direct, Engineering Village, Web of Science Springer Link Wikipedia Google Info from lectures

4. We need to know... How to do a proper literature review How to enter keywords into databases What to look for Decipher results – reliable / unreliable Citations

5. The Literature You

6. The Research Process Define your topic What information do you need? Who would have written about it? Where? Find information Judge it – is it reliable? relevant? – does it point in new directions? – is it enough? or do you still need more? Analyse and synthesise Cite all sources!

7. Subject guide

8. Chemistry focus journal articles,review articles,patents,who’s cited who substances,reactions,prices search by phraseor by structure

9. aka Compendex Engineering focus who’s cited who journal articles search by topic and/or author

10. General science journal articles,review articles who’s cited who search by topic and/or author

11. Evaluating Resources Is it… and... relevant? Who is it written for? basic/advanced? What kind of research is it? How far along is the research? up-to-date? What questions haven’t they answered yet? accurate?

12. Citing

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