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KnowItAll U Spectra database is giving a free webinar on the basics of using the AnyWhere database online and the KnowItAll desktop software.

KnowItAll, a subscription provided by Princeton University Libraries, is a searchable collection of over 1.3 million spectra, including structures and chemical property information.

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern USA (9 PST, 10 MST, 11 CST)
Duration: 1 hour
Where: Online from your office or home
Registration Fee: Complimentary

Register at http://www.knowitall.com/eventcenter

To try the database out online before the webinar visit http://www.knowitallanyware.com/
To download Windows client version, PU users go to http://www.knowitallu.com/gettingstarted

Starting October 13th, Writing in Science and Engineering Conferences will be held every Thursday at the Engineering Library in Friend Center, room 106. These are offered to students working on assignments or research projects in the sciences, the empirical social sciences, or engineering. Appointments for Writing Conferences at the Engineering Library can be made online at https://writing.princeton.edu/scheduler/appointments/18.

In coordination with the Writing Conferences, the Engineering Library offers Research Clinics every Thursday afternoon, from 3:30pm to 5:30pm in room 105 (Friend Center). If you have difficulties finding sources for your paper or project, librarians will be available to help you and to answer any questions that you may have about the library. No appointments are necessary for the Library Research Clinics, everybody is welcome!

Google recently began re-indexing its information for IEEE standards and papers. This means that you are currently less likely to find IEEE standards and articles by searching for them Google or Google Scholar. It is advised that you begin searching directly in IEEE Xplore. With its new Google like search interface, you may not even miss Google.

You can also watch a video to learn how to better use the new IEEE Xplore interface.

Technical and engineering reference e-book provider, Knovel, will be visiting the Lewis and Engineering Libraries on Thursday, October 1^st. Come by for product demonstrations, information on new features, snacks, and information about this year’s University Challenge and prizes.

 

Knovel has scheduled a “Knovel Enhancements Walk-through Webinar” for Wednesday March 5th at 1 PM Eastern time and invites you to attend. Previous sessions have run approximately 30 minutes. You can visit http://knovel.ilinc.com/register/cmcmxr to register.

Improvements include:

• Tabbed navigation structure with Basic Search, Browse and Fielded Search modes

• A Fielded Search function that remains persistent throughout the search, making it easier to revise search criteria

• An enhanced Browse function which simplifies drill-downs

• Availability of the Knovel Unit Converter throughout the site

The original database providing citation searching, actually began as a printed index: Science Citation Index. Everyone knows that s/he could find additional relevant papers by looking at the references, (the bibliography) at the conclusion of papers, but this academic searching device was developed into an indexing service by Dr. Eugene Garfield, who founded the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia in the 1960s. He compiled all the bibliographies from all the papers in major journals of all scientific fields. Science Citation Index has become Web of Science — or Web of Knowledge — which also includes the humanities and social sciences. One can choose the “Cited Ref Search”, or run a search and click on the number that follows “Times Cited” for the paper in question.

The latest newsletter from IEEE offers — among other news:

1. Toolbar for IEEE, easily downloaded

2. 4 new journals in IEEE Xplore:

   IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

   IEEE Journal of Selected topics in Signal Processing

   IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

   IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

3. IEEE Online Training Seminars — free demonstrations and searching instructions

4. IET Synthetic Biology — new journal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, offering free downloading of Volume 1 for 2007, at the IET Digital Library.

EndNote and RefWorks are 2 bibliographic citation manager programs which are provided by the University. Audrey Wright, in connection with OIT and the Library has written and taught about the use of these citing services. (From the Princeton University Library homepage, see “Citing Sources” under Research Help.) Here are links to general, starting information about these programs: Getting started with Endnote 8 Using RefWorks at Princeton

INSPEC and Compendex (Engineering Village 2)

1. Do a search, check desired citations, then click on “Download”.

2. Select “RIS, EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager” on the Download selected records screen then click on “Download”.

3. In the Windows Open screen, navigate to the directory which contains the library where you want to save the records, and double-click on the library file name. The records are now saved in your library.

IEEE hosts regularly scheduled online seminars and training events which are free to all users of IEEE online technical information. Current 60 minute courses include ‘Searching with IEEE Xplore’. Free open demonstrations of IEEE products, for existing and potential customers, including tips on how to search in IEEE Xplore. Advance registration is required and space is limited. For more information and schedule, click here. Princeton has a subscription to this scholarly, technical, full text database on electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

The Librarians at the Engineering Library are also very glad to answer any questions or provide instruction in the use of IEEE Xplore.

A couple of graduate students in EE came to the Engineering Library today to ask how to find journal impact factors — a method of ranking a journal’s influence based on the number of citations it has received in other papers. It was developed by Eugene Garfield in the 1960’s who also founded the Institute for Scientific Information and Science Citation Index.

Here are the steps for using JCR (Journal Citation Reports): You can link from the “Articles and Databases” button on the Library’s homepage. Under letter “j”, click on JCR Web. The online portion covers from 1999 through 2005 currently. Choose the Sciences — or the Social Sciences. Then you may then [submit] a search for a selected subject area, or choose a specific journal title. If you choose a subject area, you may sort alphabetically by title, or by impact factor, total cites, immediacy index or cited half-life. There are graphs and many tables of bibliometric data available for the specific titles.

You can get graphic analyses from the [Citation Report] button that appears at the right, after you run any general search in Web of Science.