Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering & ECE 247                    Julia Gelfand

Sensors and Actuators                                                              Science Library 228

Spring, 2006                                                                            824-4971;

jgelfand@uci.edu

 

This course will introduce you to the following:

1.      library instruction in order to conduct appropriate and relevant literature searches in the journal and conference proceedings literature

2.      develop the ability to identify and correctly use the Indexing & Abstracting services

3.      how to access and retrieve articles from electronic journals remotely

4.      how to evaluate Internet resources

5.      how to find patents and use patent literature

 

You have several assignments that will encourage you to use a variety of tools – and this handout will introduce you to them.  In order to complete the assigned project, you need to use a variety of information resources and this outline should help you review and navigate your way to the most appropriate material.  Access to the majority of these resources is available via the UCI Library Homepage.

 

1.      ANTPAC  - Online Catalog for UCI – via the web – best method for identifying traditional print, electronic and media titles in the UCI collection - search under MEMS or Microelectromechanical Systems as a keyword and you will retrieve all books, proceedings and serials where that appears in the title, subject headings or notes in reverse chronological order with most recent publications noted first.

 

2.      CDL/MELVYL – Online Catalog for all UC campuses and a gateway to Indexing & Abstracting Services (A&I) – via the web; has incorporated file for periodicals; can be searched  by series; and limited to publication form (ie-video, etc); also has family of products by general subjects – ex) “Mechanical Engineering – Electronic Journals available to UCI” - use the UCI eLinks to determine holdings in all formats.  MELVYL REQUEST is the InterLibrary Loan function that allows you to borrow materials from another campus without rekeying the request.

 

A.     REFERENCE TOOLS

1.      Associations Unlimited - the Encyclopedia of Associations, (local, regional, national and international entries) – gives full citation, including membership figures,  description & web address of association or nonprofit unit

2.        Directories of parts, companies, labs, etc – see Thomas register of American manufacturers and Thomas register catalog file - SL REF T12 T6

3.        Hoover's - a business directory

4.      Conference Proceedings – consult indexing tools, ie) INSPEC, IEEE Xplore, Ei Compendex

5.      CRCnetbase.com - directory of many eBooks in different topical areas of engineering

6.      some uncatalogued but useful reference works in the Quick Reference list http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/reference/reference.html

7.      Subject Guides - for Engineering  and there is a separate link to each departmental subject guide - ex) Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering or Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Materials Science, etc.

8.      Subject Guides for Business & Management -

9.      Knovel database - a very new database for UCI - indexes over 792 different eBooks in Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, Life Sciences.

10.  MEMS Handbook, 3 volumes, 2006 - SL Bar TK 7875 M4536 2006

 

3.      Selected A&I Services – Your point of departure is the UCI Library’s Homepage – go to “Online Resources” and then you will see two panels: Browse by Title and Search  – those noted by* are most relevant to this subject coverage and have eLinks to holdings and full-text coverage.  All these databases will include eLinks to either fulltext access or to print holdings via MELVYL. This page is still a "work in progress" and is imperfect but you can search the range of electronic resources by using the pulldown menus.    ILLs can be initiated via MELVYL REQUEST.

 

 

 

  1. INSPEC* (1969+) - via OVID and the Archive for 1989-1968 - great for conference proceedings - mostly mathematics, operations research, electrical engineering and computer science
  2. IEEE Xplore* (1988+) (also listed under Full-text journals by publisher) - full coverage of IEEE journals, conferences, book chapters and books
  3. EiCOMPENDEX (1974+) – Engineering Index via Engineering Village2 - covers electrical, mechanical and full scope of engineering
  4. Web of Science (1945+) - use the Science Citation Index component (covers Current Contents) - soon to become the Century of Science going back to 1900.  There is a link to Journal Citation Reports (JCRs) too
  5. Engineered Materials Abstracts (1986+)

F.  PubMed* (1964+) – access to MEDLINE . 

Some hints: use AND/OR/NOT in capitals in search statement

Searching: Enter significant terms of interest (e.g., mems) and click the "Go" button. Use the "Clear" button to erase the contents of the search box. The system will process your search as a keyword search and also "map" it to any subject terms in the database.

 

Limiting your search: The Limits "button" allows a search to be restricted to certain publication years, languages, article types, research study types, etc. Click on the "Limits" text underneath the search box to apply the limits.

 

Displaying results and locating articles: UCI and the UC System (through CDL) worked with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to provide access to UCI’s electronic journal holdings within the PubMed database.      Remember you can access UCI electronic journal holdings in PubMed only by logging in with this URL:       http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?tool=cdl&holding=ucilib,cdlib

 

Use the pull-down menus next to the "Display" button to change the display to the Abstract Format.  This record view displays the following information:

             1.Journal Source (journal title abbreviation, date of publication, volume, issue, and pagination)

             2.Article title

             3.Authors

             4.Author affiliation (address) of first author at time of publication

             5.Abstract (if available)

             6.Publication type

             7.PubMed & MEDLINE Unique Identifiers

             8.AVAILABILITY OF ELECTRONIC FULL TEXT

     Click the icon to view the article electronically.

 

If Electronic Full Text is not available: Use the "check boxes" to mark the articles you want to access. Use the "Order" button on the display bar. This will open a new intermediate window to check on the UCI holdings of each journal (NOTE: You will leave PubMed, to get back to your search use the "back" button.)

 

Search Details – PubMed uses advanced behind-the-scenes term-mapping techniques to link search terms to MeSH headings and words and phrases found in the record. By clicking on the "Detail" button you can see how the system processed your search. The graphic below illustrates how words and phrases are mapped to MeSH headings.

 

Manipulating your results. You have 3 choices to record the citations you have found. After marking your citations you can:

       A.Click on the "save' button on the display toolbar and download results to a disk as a text file.

        B.Click on the "text" button on the display toolbar and print the list of citations out.

       C.Write the citations down.

 

Additional Databases that may be relevant to this course:

  1. Digital Dissertations (1865+) – free fulltext to UC dissertations; opportunity to read abstracts and order those dissertations that you want from non UC institutions; Requests can be made via Antpac ILL functions and is subsidized for all graduate students.
  2. Expanded Academic ASAP (1988+) – general subject database; with many articles in 1st generation fulltext
  3. BIOSIS (1985+) - covers life and biological science literature with increasing coverage of biotechnology
  4. SciFinder Scholar (1896+) - database of the American Chemical Society; includes patents.  Restricted use to UCI affiliates & not available via the proxy server.  Request password at the Science Library Reference Desk.
  5. Business Source Premier - high percentage of fulltext content in business, management and entrepreneurial sciences
  6. Factiva - a fulltext business source of trade and journal publications
  7. Gartner - a business/investment source - provides indicators of the industry - you will have to register with your UCI NetID for access and agree to the click-through agreement
  8. Google Scholar - will offer links via UCI's holdings

 

1.      Full-text Online Journals – from UCI Library’s Homepage at http://www.lib.uci.edu – go to “Online Resources” and then select “Online Journals” –  there is a list of online journal publishers and providers at http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/collection.html

ANTPAC is the most current listing of all holdings in all formats but the homepage as some easy steps:

 By Journal Title - yes we do have Sensors & Actuators A(Physical) & B(Chemical) in print - for A: 1990-1992 in print at

TJ 223 T7 S46 and online from 1995 as part of ScienceDirect; for B: 1990-1991 in print at TJ 223 T7 S47 and online from 1995 too.  Earlier coverage before the split from 1981-1990 is at TJ 223 T7 S45, all in  the SL Drum. There are some new titles, like Sensors, only an online journal.

 

You can also get journal access from the homepage with these alternatives:

  1. by title where you can search sensor and retrieve the 12 titles we have:

 

5.  For additional help - Contact the Liaison Librarian or Ask-a-Librarian services will allow you to ask for assistance via eMail or by Live CHAT, or to schedule an appointment for a research consultation.  Do not procrastinate until the end of the academic quarter to conduct your research - get started soon!

 

  1. publisher & collection by publishing initiative – most offer coverage since 1996 and many go back earlier – if you select the publisher you can also search the output of most of these journals; you can get the table of contents, abstracts and full-text in pdf (must have Adobe Acrobat as a browser)

Springer Verlag (LINK) and Kluwer

Wiley

Elsevier (ScienceDirect) - includes Academic Press

IEEE *** very key – see IEEE Xplore

Blackwell Science

Institute of Physics (IOP)

                American Institute of Physics (AIP)

JSTOR – for journals older than 5 years

American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - fulltext of all 17 journals

Materials Research Society (MRS) - journals and conference proceedings - in recent years the majority of conference papers are only produced digitally

Emerald - for Sensor Review,specifically

 

Related Journals are also listed on the CDL collections website.

 

  1. Journal Citation Reports – available from 1999 for SCI & SSCI – http://www.jcr.com via the Library Homepage – specific subject headings – lists the journals topically.  This analytical tool compares citation performance of a given year's worth of journal citations.

 

2.      Conference Proceedings – usually published either commercially or by the sponsoring professional association – consult A&I services or the INTERNET search engines for access.  The UCI Libraries acquire some conference papers and proceedings – consult ANTPAC or MELVYL by the name of the conference or by the sponsoring group.  Many are also available online for current and recent years.  See:  MEMS Conference sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – http://www.memsconference.com and http://www.memscenter.com

 

3.      Patents – there are numerous databases that index the patent literature.  Each country has independent patent indexes and servers.  In addition to SciFinder Scholar., the most widespread and user friendly servers are:

  1. US Patent & Trademark Office (Full-text from 1976+ and full-page images of all US patents issued since 1790; beginning March 15, 2001 contains Full-text of all patent applications)  – http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index/htm
  2. Patent Searching Tutorial – from the University of Texas, Austin – http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/ENG/PTUT/putut.html
  3. European Patent Office – http://www.european-patent-office.org/online/index.htm
  4. Freepatentsonline - Fulltext and images of US patents beginning with patent number 4,000,000 - http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
  5. Scirus - Indexes over 13 million patents from the US, European and Japanese Patent Offices and WIPO - http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
  6. See attached guide prepared by UCSD Librarians, “How to Identify & Obtain Patents.”
  7. Also LEXIS-NEXIS under "Legal" section and then under "Patents"

Some tips for successful patent searching:

·        Emphasize the importance of searching with Class and Sub-Class numbers as patent titles are often ambiguous

·        Patent searching is a great asset to one's skillset

·        Remember that a comprehensive patentability usually requires the services a patent attorney or agent

 

4.      Internet Sources – use an Internet Search Engine to retrieve Internet sites – determine what the domain is - .edu, .org, .gov, .com, .net.  Some relevant sources include:

  1. MEMS & Nanotechnology Clearinghouse - http://www.memsnet.org/
  2. MEMS ClearingHouse – http://mems.isi.edu
  3. MEMS Virtual Learning Cybercenter – http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/akt1/memsmain.html
  4. MEMS Links – from the University of Cincinnati School of Engineering – has strong set of bibliographic links http://www.mems.uc.edu/link.html
  5. MEMS Exchange – almost a metasite – http://www.mems-exchange.org
  6. various Schools of Engineering around the world have MEMS Centers and have specific websites to support them noting current sponsored research.
  7. BIO-MEMS – http://www.biomems.net
  8. Links to MEMS Technology Developers – www.ida.org/MEMS/links.html
  9. MEMS Content at Sensors Expo & Conference, Spring 2002 - http://www.memsconference.com/se02spring
  10. MEMS Industry Group - http://www.memsindustrygroup.org/
  11. MEMS Sensors & Actuators Lab at the University of Maryland - http://www.ece.umd.edu/MEMS/
  12. EPO21XX Trade Show for MEMS & Actuators - http://www.expo21xx.com/automation21xx/sensors-actuators.htm
  13. Citris Lab at Berkeley - http://www.citris.berkeley.edu/technology/sensors/tinyos.html
  14. Small Times - http://www.smalltimes.com/
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