Transcript Resources and Tools for Physics Research

Resources and Tools
for Physics Research
Elizabeth Lee San Bao | [email protected]
22 January 2015
Session Outline
 Overview of Library Services and Resources
 Ethics in Research and Plagiarism
 Core Research Databases in Physics
 Tools for Managing Your Research
Overview of
Library Services
and Resources
NUS Libraries
For knowledge ~ for inspiration ~ for life
Central Library
Science library
Chinese Library
Medical Library
Hon Sui Sen
Memorial Library
Music Library
C J Koh Law Library
www.lib.nus.edu.sg | [email protected] | Chat service (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm)
Your Access to NUS Libraries
 Your matric card is your
library card.
 Library Opening Hours
Library Login ID and PIN
Your matriculation number (e.g. A0066650N) is your
library login ID. By default, your library PIN is your
student SMARTCARD PIN issued by the NUS Computer
Centre.
Use this login ID and PIN to:
 Check your library account online
 Renew items online
 Reserve items/Place a hold
 Borrow items at self-check out stations
 Request items from closed stacks
Related FAQs
For Graduate Students
Quick
Loan entitlement:
Tip:
Max 30 books and 1 RBR
More services:
 Study carrels (4 hours per loan)
You can return Main Shelves books at any NUS Library.
 Loan period:
 Document Delivery Service
But all RBR books must be returned at the Loans
(DDS)Desk
* of
Main
shelves
the
home
library.books: 28 days
 Intra-library loan *
RBR: 2 hours/overnight
Return through book chutes only if library is closed.
 Inter-library loan *
 3 online renewals for main
shelves books
* e-form submission is required
Demo on Library Portal
NUS Libraries Resources
 FindMore / LINC : Discovery Search Engine / Library Catalogue
 E-Resources / E-Books
 RBR / Exam Papers
 ScholarBank : Institutional Repository, where past theses can be
found.
Accessing NUS Libraries E-Resources
No excessive
copying or
downloading of Eresources
NUSSTU/A0066
650
Searching Citations with FindMore
 FindMore searches for books, e-books, journal articles,
newspaper articles, dissertations & more.
Shankar, R. (2014). Fundamentals of physics:
mechanics, relativity, and thermodynamics. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
* For more information, you can visit the FindMore LibGuide.
Searching Citations with FindMore
Login to view more results from
databases
Sort results by
relevance/date
Content type & item
availability
Search
Filters
Inserts items into
temporary folder
LINC View
Citing and email
options
Searching Citations: FindMore vs LINC
 Similarly to FindMore, LINC also searches for books, e-books, journals, etc.
But it does not search for journal articles.
 You would need to search for the journal title in LINC to find the article. In
FindMore, you can search the journal article title directly.
Daley, A. J. (2014). Quantum trajectories and open manybody quantum systems. Advances in Physics, 63(2), 77-149.
doi: 10.1080/00018732.2014.933502
Found in FindMore
Search LINC using this
information instead.
Not found in LINC
Activity: Searching Citations | FindMore vs
LINC
1) Search for this citation in FindMore and LINC. Does NUS Libraries have
access to this journal article?
Cariglia, M. (2014). Hidden symmetries of dynamics in classical and
quantum physics. Reviews of Modern Physics, 86(4), 1283-1336. doi:
10.1103/RevModPhys.86.1283
2) Search for this citation in FindMore and LINC. Does NUS Libraries have
access to this citation?
Khrennikov, A. (2014). Prequantum Dynamics from Hamiltonian
Equations on the Infinite-Dimensional Phase Space Beyond quantum
(pp. 149-173). Boca Raton: Pan Stanford.
Theses and Dissertations
NUS Theses and Dissertations
 Before Sep 2003 (Print):
Call No. QC3
 After Sep 2003 (E-Theses):
ScholarBank
Non-NUS Theses and Dissertations
 Theses Databases: ProQuest
dissertations & theses (Global, UK
& Ireland) | Springer Theses |
Other NUS-subscribed databases
 University Repositories
 Recommend to purchase thesis
* For more information, you can visit our LibGuide on how to find theses.
Ethics in Research
and Plagiarism
Copying of Library Materials
 Please observe the Copyright Act of Singapore. Copying
should be strictly for the usage of research and study.
 Limitations of Copying:
a)
Published Materials:
books (> 10 pages):
c) Electronic
Not more than one chapter or 10% of number of pages
Not more than
b) Journals:
10% of the total number of bytes in the Work; or
Not more than whole or part of one Article in a Journal unless
10% of the total number of words in the Work or 10% of the
the Articles relate to the same subject matter.
contents of the Work; or
One chapter of the Work, where it exceeds any of the limits set
out above
Avoiding Plagiarism
 “In NUS, it is defined as the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas
and passing them off as one’s own.”
Source: Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language
Communication
 “Plagiarism is a deliberate activity – the conscious copying from the work of
others without acknowledgement.”
Source: Avoiding Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Dr Yang Ying, Centre for
English Language Communication
For more information:
 You can visit the NUS Plagiarism Prevention website, which offers a selfchecked plagiarism prevention software called Turnitin.
 You can view the NUS emodule on academic culture and plagiarism here.
Ethics in Science Research
Source: Nature, 6 September 2007
Source: VietnamNet Bridge, 30 May 2012
Source: DW, 6 June 2014
Citing Your Sources Properly
 Different citation styles are available, e.g. APA, AIP, MLA. Please check
with your tutor/supervisor which style to use in your paper.
 Different ways of citing are used for different types of sources, e.g.
books, edited books, journal articles, etc.
 There are 2 places to cite the sources you have used during your
research:
a)
Within a sentence (In-text citation)
b) At the end of document (Bibliography/References)
Source: Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language
Communication
Author-date system of
Numerical system of
citing
citing
* For more information, please visit our LibGuide on Citation Styles.
Core Research
Databases in
Physics
Core Research Databases in Physics
 NUS-subscribed Databases:
a)
INSPEC – Covers physics, electronics, computing and
engineering from 1969.
b) Institute of Physics (IOP) Science - Over 60 IOP journals with
archive dating back more than 130 years
c)
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) - From the American
Physical Society, this database’s coverage is from 1893 to
present
d) Web of Science – Multidisciplinary, 1900 onwards.
e) Scopus – Multidisciplinary, 1996 onwards.
 Open Access: arXiv.org
* More databases listed in Physics LibGuide.
Database Highlight: Web of Science (WOS)
WOS’s Core Collection:
 More than 12,000 multidisciplinary research journals and over
150,000 conference proceedings.
 More than 250 disciplines covered from 1900 onwards.
 Includes Cited Reference Searching to track prior and current
research development.
 Integrates citing and referencing seamlessly with EndNote.
 Updated weekly.
Source: Thomson Reuters, Web of Science Core Collection
Database Demonstration: Web of Science
(WOS)
Sample topic:
Study of nanostructure of biomedical samples using Atomic
Force Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy
Suggested search statement:
Nano* biomedical AND (Atomic Force Microscopy OR Raman
Spectroscopy)
Notes:
*  truncation operator / wildcard
AND  boolean operator to narrow search
OR  boolean operator to widen search
* For more search tips in WOS,
please visit here.
Database Demonstration: Web of Science
(WOS)
Results sorting
Create
Search
Alerts
Save citations
Find Full-Text
Search
Filters
Database Demonstration: Web of Science
(WOS)
Print/Email Options
Analyse Results &
Create Citation
Report
No. of times cited
by other papers
Database Demonstration: Web of Science
(WOS)
Back to
search
results
Find FullText
My Tools & Search
History
Citationrelated
statistics
Some tips on managing research results
 Refine by subject/discipline areas as defined by the
databases – more specific to your research focus.
 Identify and read review articles so you can trace the
historical development of a certain research area.
 Use number of times cited to identify and read high-impact
papers.
 Use citations to trace the progress of a certain research
area.
Building current awareness of Physics
research
You can subscribe to the following alerts to keep updated on new
Physics research development:
 Publishers and journals’ alerting services and newsletters
 Databases’ alerting service, e.g. saved search alert
 LINC alerting service, e.g. saved search alert
 Citation alerts
 RSS feeds from related Physics websites and news organisations
Tools for
Managing
Your Research
JabRef for LaTeX users
 JabRef is a free and open source bibliography reference
manager software.
 Latest version is 2.10, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
 Java-based so it is platform/OS-independent.
 Uses BibTeX files (.bib) as native file format.
 Provides filters to import other file format: .ris, Medline,
JSTOR, etc
 Graphical interface for editing BibTeX entries.
JabRef for LaTeX users
EndNote
 EndNote is another bibliographic software for storing,
organising and formatting your references from many sources.
 Cite While You Write – EndNote automatically inserts
references in Word document.
 Customise the format and style of citation automatically.
 Current version is X7.2.
* For more information, please visit our LibGuide on Endnote.
EndNote
Creating a EndNote Library: Direct Exporting
from databases, Importing from PDF file,
Manual Input
Cite While You Write –
Inserting references into
Word
EndNote Upcoming Workshops
EndNote Workshop Schedule, Semester 2, 2014/2015
Date
Time
Venue
Tue, 24 Feb
10am – 12pm
Central Library
Wed, 25 Feb
1pm – 3pm
Central Library
Thurs, 26 Feb
1pm – 3pm
Hon Sui Sen Memorial
Library
Fri, 27 Feb
10am – 12pm
Hon Sui Sen Memorial
Library
Mon, 2 Mar
1pm – 3pm
Science Library
Thurs, 5 Mar
10am – 12pm
Science Library
* This is a tentative schedule for the EndNote Workshops. Please visit http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/endnote
for the most updated schedule.
Library Proxy Bookmarklet
 A browser plug-in that automatically inserts
“libproxy1.nus.edu.sg” into the URL of an article link in your
browser.
 Quick way to see if NUS Libraries subscribe to the journal
and you have access to the article.
* For more information, please visit the LibGuide.
Library Tips in Google Scholar
 Apply Library Proxy Bookmarklet in Google Scholar to quickly see if
you have access to journal articles.
 Change “Library Links” in Settings to “National University of
Singapore” – ensures that “Find It! @NUS Libraries” appears.
 Change “Bibliography manager” in search results settings to ensure
“Import into EndNote” appears.
Start your Physics Research with NUS
Libraries today!
Information Sources for
Academic Research
List of References
 Library Portal: http://lib.nus.edu.sg
 FindMore: http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com
 LINC Catalogue: http://linc.nus.edu.sg
 myLINC to check library account: https://linc.nus.edu.sg/patroninfo/
 Library FAQ: http://libfaq.nus.edu.sg
 NUS Libraries Guide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/libraryhelp
 Physics LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/physics
 FindMore LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findmore
 How do I find theses?: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findthesis
 E-books LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/ebooks
 Citation styles LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/citation
 EndNote LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/endnote
 Library Proxy Bookmarklet LibGuide:
http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet
 ScholarBank: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg
 NUS plagiarism prevention website, http://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism-prevention
List of References
 Plagiarism, Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language
Communication: https://breeze.nus.edu.sg/p53961553/
 Avoiding Plagiarism, Breeze presentation by Dr Yang Ying, Centre
for English Language Communication:
https://breeze.nus.edu.sg/avoidingplagiarism/
 NUS emodule on academic culture and plagiarism:
http://emodule.nus.edu.sg/ac/
 Web of Science Training:
http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-of-science/
 JabRef: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
More Useful References
 Postgraduate Student Resources (Compiled by NUS CDTL):
http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/pg/resources/
 EndNote training (Thomson Reuters): http://endnote.com/training
 Early Career Researchers (Elsevier): http://www.elsevier.com/early-careerresearchers/home
 Institute of Physics, Career Resources for Undergraduates and Graduates:
http://www.iop.org/careers/undergrad--postgrad/page_64174.html
 Institute of Physics, Career Resources for Early Career Researcher:
http://www.iop.org/careers/researcher--career-change/page_64175.html
 American Institute of Physics, Career Resources: http://www.aip.org/career-resources
 American Physics Society, Career Guidance:
http://www.aps.org/careers/guidance/index.cfm
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