Instructor:
Sina Mater
18 November 2011

smater@ku.edu.tr

Lesson 1 18 Nov
IL, defining research topic, effective search strategies, additional sources and supported services.
Lesson 2 25 Nov Organize and manage information: LaTeX

Why we have to be “Information Literate” by
Alphan Sennaroğlu

• The main objective of this tutorial is to teach you how to conduct a library search
• Through this tutorial, you will gain basic information literacy skills

 Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information .
(ACRL)

Researching Process
• Curiosity
• Assignment
Subject
Basic
Research
• Reference resources
• Making a question from your subject
Question
Deep
Research
• Selecting keywords/search terms
• Result of your research
Hypothesis

Books
Reference Resources
Journals
E-Books
E-Reference Resources
E-Journals
Databases
Internet
Online Library Catalogs

Basic Research
• Before starting your research, locate and read short articles that will give you a broad overview of the topic
• These articles can be found in encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, etc., which are also called reference sources
Source: Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of
Chemical Technology
Source: Oxford Reference
Online

Genre
Device
Component/
Material
Energy System
Solar Energy Electric vehicles
Crystalline silicon
Photovoltaic
Effect
“Solar energy for electric vehicles” “Crystalline silicon and photovoltaic effect”

Selecting Keyword
Topic:
“Crystalline silicon and photovoltaic effect”
Question:
“How crystalline silicon solar cells reflect photovoltaic effect ? ”
Keywords:
“Crystalline, silicon, photovoltaic, effect”

• Web of Science
• IEEE Explore
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• MathSciNet

Database Title
Web of Science
Subject Area (s) Nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Technical
Information
Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login .
Updates Updated daily
Type (Formats) Citation Database
Print+Save+Email Has print, save and e-mail options.
Search Options Analyzing search results by author, subject or journal, Boolean operators
(AND, OR, NOT), wildcards to search for variants of words, Phrase search without quotation marks, hyphenated and unhyphenated variants of the same term, SAME operator, Chemical formulas

Phrase Searching
•You can keep words together as a phrase by enclosing them in quotes “”.
• Ex: “Information Literacy Standards”,
“Organizational Behaviour” or “Game
Theory”

Database Title
Subject Area (s)
Technical
Information
Updates
Type (Formats)
IEL: IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
It covers electrical and electronical engineering, computer sciences, information technologies, control technologies, biomedical engineering and physics.
Maximum number of users: unlimited.
Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login .
Updated continuously
Journal Package / Proceedings / Standards
Print+Save+E-mail
Has print, save and email options.
Search Options
Truncation and wildcard characters (like ?, *), Boolean operators
(AND, OR, NOT). Stop words (like the, an, of...etc.)

Database Title
Subject Area
(s)
Technical
Information
Updates
Royal Society of Chemistry
Chemistry .
Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet.
Updated continuously
Type (Formats)
Journal Package
Print+Save+Email
Search
Options
Has print and save options.
Find results ; with all of the words, with the exact phrase, with any of the words, without the words.

•Use the truncation symbol
* to find articles containing several words with the same root
•
Ex: Type educat* to find "educator“,
"educators“, "educated“, "educating“, etc.
•The
“?” symbol is used as a substitute for a missing character in a search term, usually when you are unsure of a spelling or when you want to find two forms of one word.
•
Ex: If you enter WOM?N to a search box, it will locate records containing either "woman" or "women".

• eMolecules.com
• ACD/ChemSketch : A complete software package for drawing chemical structures.

Database Title
Subject Area
(s)
Technical
Information
Type (Formats)
MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society)
Mathematics
Maximum number of users: unlimited. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet. Off-campus access may require a login.
Review
Print+Save+Email
Search
Options
Has print and save options.
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), Wildcard character(*), Quotation marks for searching with exact phrases

Open Access Resources
• Finding Articles:
– arXiv
• Finding Thesis:
– DART-Europe
• Finding Patents:
– Free Patents Online

Open Access Resources
• Finding Articles:
• arXiv: is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University.
http://arxiv.org/

Open Access Resources
• Finding Thesis:
• DART-Europe: is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to
European research theses. http://www.dart-europe.eu/

Finding Patents from web
• Patents about Crystalline Silicon Process
“Process for producing amorphous and crystalline silicon nitride ”
• Free Patents Online
• Google Patents

 Patrons can request articles from journals not available in the Library’s Collection or in the electronic databases to which it subscribes.
 Please, check the library holdings and online fulltext databases first before sending your request to us.
 Article request services are free of charge
 5 articles at a time, free of charge
 Online articles will be sent to your e-mail address

• Patrons can request books not available in the Library’s
Collection or in the electronic databases to which it subscribes.
• Please, check the library collection and online full-text databases first before sending your request to us.
• ILL request services are free of charge
• 5 ILL books at a time, free of charge

Please feel free to consult Reference librarians at any stage of your research for further help.

SEE YOU NEXT FRIDAY
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