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The following suggestions on library resources to support your research and course work were suuplied by Judy Senecal in the Carleton Library. Judy can be reached on email at:      JudySenecal@pigeon.carleton.ca

 

1. All grad students and faculty can get document delivery accounts for obtaining journal articles and conference papers which are not here in the library. The service that's used for science/engineering is CISTISource.    more info
 

2. We have a number of databases available over the Web which you can search for journal articles. These are listed on our CD-ROM and Web Databases page
 

Of particular interest in your areas would be:
 

Compendex (all engineering fields)
 

Applied Science and Technology Index (a bit more geared to undergraduate research, but still useful)
 

Current Contents (available via WebCUBE)
 

Inspec (not on Web, only stand-alone computer in library)
 

MathSciNet (for the more theoretical side of things)
 

3. Also, we now have a access to a growing collection of e-journals, all of which are listed both on CUBE and on the E-journals page.
 

One of the major collections is the IEEE one. Using the IEEExplore interface you can get access to all the IEEE journals and some of the conference proceedings, going back to 1998. Some confusion often arises using IEEExplore since you can search the entire contents of the IEEE Electronic Library (IEL), and therefore get citations to all items in it, but we have only been able to purchase a small subset of the IEL. We have access to basically the equivalent of our print packages, which means all journals but only about 1/3 of the available conferences. You can see abstracts to everything, it's just when you go to click to get the full text that you find out what we don't have access to)
 

4. A couple of general sites that they could find useful:
 

Panning for Gold: How to find Journal Articles:
 

Research Strategies (this was done for the 91.100 class a couple of years ago, but gives a general overview)