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CMPS 200 - Fall 2006

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Articles
Online Journals
Books
Academic Integrity
Life cycle of a Paper
Assessment Methods
Ergonomics
Ethics
LaTex / BibTex

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Class Handouts

Online Resources

Resource Topics

Use the databases below to search for articles via keyword, subject, or author. Links to the electronic version of the article are often available. If the article is only available in print, these databases will give you the library's call number (location) for the journal. [ more info ]

For articles on reserve for a class, see ERes (Electronic Reserves) . You can connect to online resources from home using Off Campus Access.

LibX UCSC is a Firefox extension that provides direct access to UCSC Library resources, expecially useful when using Google Scholar. Note: you must have the most recent version of Firefox for LibX UCSC to work properly.

Flash movie tutorial: (1:30 min)

INSPEC [UC only] [Alerts] - Editor's Choice!
1969-present. Use Change Database button to search both INSPEC and INSPEC Archive (1898-1868) together or search each database separetely. This is the best single choice for comprehensive coverage of journal articles and conference papers in electrical engineering, computer science and physics. (For noncommercial computer science articles freely available on the Internet, see CiteSeer (see below.) INSPEC includes all the IEEE, IEE and ACM literature as well as many other publishers (which makes it broader than IEEE Xplore (see below) which covers only the IEEE/IEE literature). Compendex (see below) covers all engineering disciplines with a slightly different selection of journals covered as compared to Inspec. The truncation symbol in this database is $ .
Quick Guide to INSPEC via OVID

INSPEC AutoAlerts Tutorial: create a search that runs automatically in INSPEC with new database records sent to your email [pdf].

Compendex [UC Only]
1884-present, includes Engineering Index Backfile. This article database covers all engineering disciplines. Best for journal articles and conference papers in aerospace, materials science and mechanical engineering. Also includes electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science, so for comprehensive searches of those disciplines using both Inspec and Compendex is advised. The truncation symbol in this database is *.
Quick Guide to Ei COMPENDEX

IEEE Xplore [UC Only] [Alerts]
1951-present. Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. Browse by journal title, conference name; search by author, subject, abstract keywords, etc. All of the content here is also included in the INSPEC database (including the full text), though perhaps newly published items may appear here sooner than in INSPEC.

Web Of Science (Science Citation Index) [UC Only] [Alerts]
1975-present. This is an index to scientific journal articles that also allows you to search for citations to a particular article. You look up the reference to a work that you know about to find more recent journal articles that have cited it. Cited reference searching is a unique way to trace ideas and subjects from past research into the present day. Searchable by author, keyword, and cited reference. Unfortunately this database does not cover conference literature. Because there are a limited number of ports available, please be sure to logoff when you are finished so that your connection can be made available to someone else.
Flash Movie Tutorial: Web of Science: Creating Alerts (2:05 min from the UC Berkeley Library)
Cited Reference Search Quick Guide [pdf]

Expanded Academic ASAP [UC Only]
1980-present. Citations to articles from selected scholarly, scientific and general interest journals, and popular magazines in all subject areas. Good place to start for general multidisciplinary searches or for more popular articles.

CiteSeer (also known as ResearchIndex) Editor's Choice!
ResearchIndex is a free, full-text index to the freely available research articles on the web. This index is popular with computer scientists because a great deal of the their literature is available this way, and because ResearchIndex also provides citation analysis. Furthermore, while Web of Science (the other citation database) doesn't index conference papers (which are a mainstay in computer science), ResearchIndex does (if the proceedings are on the web for free). It also offers reference linking, extraction of citation context and related document detection. And, similar to Amazon.com, it will show you documents that users who viewed your document also looked at. The icing on the cake is that each record even provides the BibTeX entry for the article for those using that programming language to create their bibliographies.

ACM Portal [UC Only]
This information portal from the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) consists of two interlinking parts: the ACM Digital Library and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature . The ACM Digital Library is a searchable database of all the works published by ACM since its inception, with links to the full text of each article. The Digital Library is for the ACM what Xplore is for the IEEE. All of the content of the Digital Library is also available through INSPEC (including all the full text), though perhaps newly published items may appear here sooner than in INSPEC. The ACM Guide to Computing Literature is a database of computing literature from many publishers, including ACM. As of November 2001 the Guide included only 816 journal titles, making it much less comprehensive than INSPEC for articles. However, the Guide's coverage of conferences (2,494), and books (16,972) is very rich and may actually rival that of INSPEC for those formats.

MathSciNet [UCSC Only]
1940-present. Search Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Full text of Mathematical Reviews back from 1940-1979.

Complete list of Science & Engineering Databases available to UCSC users.

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Connecting to Online Resources from Home

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CRUZCAT
Catalog for the UCSC Libraries. Includes our library locations for books, journals, conference proceedings, maps, videos and more.
Flash movie tutorial: Searching by KEYWORD (2:55 min)
Flash movie tutorial: Searching for a Known Journal Title (2:40 min)

Melvyl Catalog
The combined catalog of items owned by each of the libraries in the UC system. You can REQUEST items to be sent to you from other libraries. [more info] Getting Started with the New Melvyl

UCSC Document Delivery Service
Document Delivery Service to your campus address for UCSC faculty, staff, and graduate students.

O'Reilly Books Online (via Safari) [UCSC Only] - Please log off when done!
Desktop access to over one hundred O'Reilly & Associates technical books, cover to cover. Topics include Java, Linux/Unix, Networking, Perl, Programming, Software Engineering, Web Development, XML, Bioinformatics, etc. There is a 10-minute "time-out" period for each user session. If there is no activity on the interface for 10 minutes the user will be logged out, thus making the system available for another user. If you experience any difficulties accessing this product, please let Danielle know.

ENGnetBASE - Engineering Handbooks Online [UC Only]
The complete text of over 149 engineering handbooks from CRC Press, in the fields of electrical, communications, biomedical, environmental, mechanical, structural, and ocean engineering. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Sample titles include: Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communications, and the Computer Engineering Handbook.

New Engineering Books in the Science & Engineering Library
See the list of engineering books purchased last month for the Science & Engineering Library. The list is updated once a month to show items purchased in the previous month. A new book list for Computer Science and for other subjects are also available.

Books and Other Materials on Reserve for Classes Students -- Course reserves are listed in the CRUZCAT online catalog. You can search by course name or instructor to find items on reserve for your class. More information about reserves is also available. Instructors -- Instructions on how to place materials on reserve are available.

Bay Tree Bookstore

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You can search the library's online catalog, CRUZCAT , by keyword to help you locate books on Academic Integrity.

The Center for Academic Integrity
The Center for Academic Integrity provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers and administrators. The CAI Web site has a public tierwhich anyone can access which contains general information about the Center and its activities, and a members-only tier.

Academic Integrity for Undergraduate Students
A UCSC webpage which lists examples of violations of academic integrity and information on the procedural due process which refers to the proper enforcement of university policies and campus regulations.

Faculty Guide to Academic Integrity
Faculty guide detailing rights and responsibilities for academic integrity in the classroom.

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Search in Web of Science for articles on the scientific publication cycle.

Scientific Publication Cycle
Adapted from http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/environment/imt220/pubcycle.jpg and the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol 26, Marcel Dekker, 1979.

Scientific Publication
Text version of the scientific publication cycle from the Oregon State University Libraries

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You can search the library's online catalog, CRUZCAT , by keyword to help you locate books on Assessment Methods

9 Principles of Good Practive for Assessing Student Learning
This page is from Indiana University Kokomo.

Selecting Methods of Assessment
There is a wealth of assessment methods used in higher education to assess students' achievements, but how to choose? Let this page help you from Oxford Brookes University. PDF Version.

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You can search the library's online catalog, CRUZCAT , by keyword to help you locate books on Ergonomics.

OSHA Effective ergonomics: strategy for success
A website from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

CDC: Ergonomics
Ergonomics website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

MedlinePlus: Ergonomics
Listing of sites from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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You can search the library's online catalog, CRUZCAT , by subject to help you locate books on the moral and ethical aspects of research or search by keyword to find books on academic ethics.

Research Ethics
A UCSC website on research ethics.

Students and Academic Ethics
Presentation at the Texas Library Association - Houston Texas

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LaTeX Resources
LaTeX is not a word processor, but rather a typesetting language. LaTeX is based on Donald E. Knuth's TeX language. LaTeX was first developed in 1985 by Leslie Lamport, and is now being maintained and developed by the LaTeX3 Project . LaTeX is a very common standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.

Books about LaTeX and about TeX available for checkout from the UCSC Libraries.
Text Processing Using LaTeX - a guide from the University of Cambridge
Getting Started With LaTeX by David R. Wilkins, Trinity College, Dublin

BibTex Resources
BibTeX is a program and file format designed by Oren Patashnik and Leslie Lamport in 1985 for the LaTeX document preparation system. The format is entirely character based, so it can be used by any program (although the standard character set for accents is TeX). It is field (tag) based and the BibTeX program will ignore unknown fields, so it is expandable. It is probably the most common format for bibliographies on the Internet.

BibTex by Dana Jacobsen
How to Use BibTex - a guide from Harvard
BibTeX and bibliography styles - a guide from the University of Colorado at Boulder

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How to Give a Talk: Changing the Culture of Academic Public Speaking - Editor's Choice!
A short paper full of excellent practical advice. From Paul N. Edwards at the School of Information, University of Michigan.

Dealing with Presentation Disasters
Very useful suggestions for the most common disasters that befall almost everyone, even though the perspective here is business oriented.

Books on communicating technical information and using Microsoft PowerPoint available for checkout from the UCSC Libraries Is the building construction blocking your access to the Science & Engineering Library?

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NetTrail is a useful tutorial for an overview of researching topics at UCSC University Library.

Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism
A site primarily focused on information for faculty regarding the recognition and prevention of plagiarism. A helpful section on writing tips for students is also available.

Turnitin.com
A campus subscription allows instructors to use this service to test the originality of their student papers.

UC Copyright
Links to UC copyright policies at the systemwide and local campus level, plus local campus contacts, copyright FAQs, and other information related to the use of copyrighted and public domain materials.

Books about communication of technical information , and books about technical writing are available for you to borrow at the Science & Engineering Library. Check the lists to see what's available.

The S&E Library also has a copy of Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals by Lawrence F. Locke, et al. that you might find useful.

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Contact Danielle Kane ( kaneda@ucsc.edu ). Updated 18 October 2006.

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