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Library Intro Notes

Notes for graduate student meeting introducing library resources.

Library Services

Get help:

Resources:

More stuff:

Library Catalog

Primo Discovery

  • Content: everything that the library has access to (books, journals, gov docs, articles, physical and digital)
  • Less focused and powerful than databases
  • Use notes:
    • sign in (access resources off campus)
    • account (check loan status, saved items/searches/history)
    • scopes (UI Library, Summit, Articles, Reserves)
    • filters (date, resource type, etc)
    • “personalize” (weights search results in your discipline)
    • item features (citation, permalink, email, summit libraries, virtual browse)
    • advanced search, personalize, facets

Databases

Database A-Z List (all databases that the Library subscribes to)

  • Content: each database has a specialized set of materials with enhanced metadata to aid in discovery.
  • Use notes:
    • databases may not include full text access
    • each may have different limitations and restrictions
    • use proxy to access from off campus

Important ENGR databases:

Research Concepts

Scholarly literature:

Citation:

General search strategies:

  • Booleans (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Keywords and concept mapping (broader, narrower, related, synonyms / thesaurus. intro video)
  • Citation chaining (look at what an important paper in your area cites and who cites it)

Web of Science

  • Content: wide coverage of science scholarly/peer-reviewed articles from the most important journals and conference proceedings
    • Index only (metadata, not full text), contains items that the Library might not have access to.
  • Excellent citation tracking, enables in depth citation chaining
  • Filter by highly cited, “hot in the field”, etc., to explore subject area
  • Export data, citation lists
  • WoS Search intro video, quick ref

Google Scholar

  • Content: good content coverage of academic literature, but not all peer-reviewed and sources are not always clearly labeled
    • Index only (metadata, not full text), contains items that the Library might not have access to.
  • Familiar / easy to search
  • Good citation tracking
  • Connect to UI Library:
    • Adding UI Library to your Scholar account will provide a link to full text content in search results via our subscriptions.
    • Log in to Google Scholar with your Gmail account; From menu in upper left, go to settings > Library links; Search for University of Idaho, and click the check box; Click “Save”.