Microsystems Design Science
Library 228
Spring 2008 jgelfand@uci.edu
; 949-824-4971
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 (Congresses) and serials where that appears in the title,
subject headings or notes in reverse chronological order with most recent
publications noted first. Separate
records cover specific interests, such as Design, Industrial applications,
Reliability, Testing, etc.
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.
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 or databases, ie) INSPEC, IEEE
Xplore, Ei Compendex
5. CRCnetbase.com
- directory of many eBooks in different topical areas of engineering,
especially ENGnetBase
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
9. Subject
Guide for Medicine and the Grunigen Medical Library -
10. Knovel database - a
very new database for UCI - indexes over 1600 different eBooks in Chemistry,
Materials Science, Engineering, Life Sciences.
11. MEMS Handbook, 3 volumes, 2006 - SL Bar
TK 7875 M4536 2006 & online via ENGnetBase
12. MEMS Gyro Market 2006 Report
- probably the most current global snapshot of the MEMS Industry
13. Inertial MEMS Markets for Consumer
Electronics Applications, 2007 by Yole
14. High Performance Inertial MEMS
Markets: Automotive, medical, industrial, aeronautic, defence,
2007 by Yole
3. Selected A&I Services – Your point of departure is the UCI Library’s Homepage – go to “Find Online
Resources” and then you will see three panels:
1. Search in All Categories
(defined as Journals, Databases, News, Reference, Statistics
with the default being ALL) – will probably search in ALL and restrict the
search to reflect “begins with” in the title.
Titles can only be in one category.
2. Browse by Title
3. Browse by Subject in all
categories
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
(golden icon) to either fulltext access or to print
holdings via ANTPAC & 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.
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 access or URL 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.
H. Trial
for new ASM International release of MEMS Materials
Database: Packaging Module This trial is good for April 9-23.
I. Another Trial you may want to take advantage of is for Protein Legend which extends through
April 30. This database allows
computational and systems biologists to map protein pathways and study
individual components in different applications under a range of conditions,
diseases, etc.
Additional
Databases that may be relevant to this course:
4. Finding Full-text Online Journals –
·
from UCI Library’s Homepage at http://www.lib.uci.edu – go to “Find Online
Resources” – there is a list of online
journal publishers, providers and partners 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.
o You can also get journal
access from the homepage with these alternatives:
§ by title where you can search sensor and retrieve the 12 titles we
have:
§ 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). Selective
examples include:
Springer Verlag (LINK) and
Kluwer
Wiley/Blackwell Science
Elsevier (ScienceDirect) -
includes Academic Press, publisher of Sensors & Actuators
IEEE *** very key – see IEEE Xplore
American
JSTOR – for journals older than 5 years
American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - fulltext of all 17 journals
Annual Reviews
Emerald - for Sensor Review, specifically
Related Journals are also listed on the CDL
collections website.
5. Bibliographic
Management Information & Special Products
§
Journal Citation Reports – available from 1999 for
SCI & SSCI – via the Library Homepage or from Web of Science – specific subject
headings – lists the journals topically.
This analytical tool compares citation performance of a given year's
worth of journal citations, with trends of impact factors assigned to each
journal.
§ 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, or Subject
Heading, Microelectromechanical
Systems -- Congresses, where there are nearly 250 entries. Many are also available online for current
and recent years. See, for example: MEMS Conference sponsored by the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society – http://www.memsconference.com and http://www.memscenter.com
§ Bibliographic Citation
Software – several choices – to format citations according to consistent
practices and styles; recall citations; etc
o RefWorks
– register and use this free web-based software to store citations in
personally customized databases
o EndNote
– requires purchase & installation of software on specific computer; EndNote Web available via Web of Science
§ 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:
A. 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 – as of
April 2008 – 7.3M patents in database
B. Patent Searching
Tutorial – from the University of Texas, Austin
D. Freepatentsonline - Fulltext and images of US patents beginning with patent
number 4,000,000 –
E. Also Crazy Patents
F. Scirus - Indexes over 13 million
patents from the US, European and Japanese Patent Offices and WIPO –
G. See guide prepared by UCSD
Librarians, “How to
Identify & Obtain Patents.”
H. Also LEXIS-NEXIS under "Legal"
section and then under "Patents" on the right side-bar
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
6. Internet Sources – use an Internet
Search Engine to retrieve Internet sites – determine what the domain is - .edu, .org,
.gov, .com, .net. Some
selective and relevant sources include:
7. 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!