Mary Joan Crowley - Sapienza's library resources for engineering researchers - MECRES Masters programme, Seminar 28 March, 2012

1. Sapienza’s library resources for researchers
MJ Crowley, DiSG Biblioteca, Sapienza
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2. … SOME FIGURES
140.000 students
4148 academic staff
4621 administrative, technical, healthcare staff
About 20.000 graduates per year
Over 291 degree programmes (undergraduate and postgraduate)
150 First and Second Level Professional Courses
121 Specialisation Schools (90 health and medical schools)
117 PhD programmes and Schools
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3. Sapienza's library resources for 28/03/2012
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4. FACULTY OF CIVIL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
• 9 first cycle programmes
• 8 second cycle programmes
• 1 single cycle programme
• 20 professional courses
• http://www.ing.uniroma1.it/
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5. Sapienza’s libraries for 140000 students, 4148 faculty, 4.621 staff
•59+ Faculty and
Department libraries
•3million print monographs
and thousands of print
journals
•10000+, 24/7 online
journals, e-books, data
bases, etc.
http://www.zoonar.com/829789
•25.000+ rare books
•PADIS – Online thesis
Sapienza's 21st century libraries for a new archive
14/04/2011
generation of users

6. For 600 years the academic library has
• Guaranteed the organized , delivery
and preservation of printed and
other content
• Provided a staff trained to support
the learning, teaching and research
needs and output of the university
and community
• Offered an agreed schedule in which
services are available
• Ensured the physical facilities
necessary to support this
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7. Thanks to these changes libaries/ians can offer even more
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8. http://w3.uniroma1.it/biblioteche/
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9. Access off campus - BIXY
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10. Sapienza's library resources for 28/03/2012
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11. Before you start
• Structure the question
• Boolean operators - And + Or Not -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tm-sDKCnO4
• Analyse
• Sift and Gather – citation tools
• Copyright issues, plagiarism
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12. Useful databases for engineers
• Crossref IEEE
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newse
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13. Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
• multidisciplinary database , abstracts and citations
from over 10,000 serials including scientific
journals, conference proceedings, reports,
monographs, books and government publications.
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14. http://www.asce.org/ - journals, conferences, blogs……
Risorse elettroniche e informazioni
specialistiche in biblioteca-DISG-Roma

15. Inspec
• Inspec coverage is extensive in the fields of physics
and computer, control, and mechanical engineering.
• Its subject coverage includes astronomy,
electronics, communications, ergonomics,
computers & computing, computer science, control
engineering, electrical engineering, information
technology, and physics.
• http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?
sid=012e8ed2-65d9-4566-8b65-1aacf5f41fcb
%40sessionmgr115&vid=3&hid=102
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16. SCOPUS http://www.scopus.com/
• bibliographic database
• abstracts and citations for academc journal articles
• 18,000 titles from over 5,000 international
publishers
• 16,500 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific,
technical, medical, and social sciences
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17. WOS http://apps.webofknowledge.com/
• 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide,
including Open Access journals and over 150,000
conference proceedings.
• Researcher ID
• Journal Scitation Reports
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18. Google scholar
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19. Content management
• RSS
• Email alert
• Delicious
• Slideshare
• Citation management tools
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20. Citation management tools
• Zotero
• https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide
• Mendeley
• http://www.mendeley.com/
• Endnote web
• https://www.myendnoteweb.com/
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21. Thank you
Biblioteca Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica
SAPIENZA University of Rome
via Eudossiana 18 - 00184 ROME Italy
office: 0644585387
e-mail: maryjoan.crowley@uniroma1.it
webpage:
http://w3.disg.uniroma1.it/biblioteca/
Skype: maryjay6