Library Resources: for CS595
Outline and Web Links
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The accompanying handout is
available here.
Objectives for this session:
- Discover useful and authoritative resources for presentations and papers
- See how to cite information sources for your presentations
- Find out how to get more information for in-depth questions
Introduction: Libraries on campus; library web sites and help
Why use library resources?
Evaluating Web sites for quality: info sheet
UNH Library Web site
General help:
Zeke's Guide and Infoboost online tutorial
Branch Libraries! Engineering, Math & Computer Science Library (Kingsbury 236)
1. Where are the branch libraries?
2. Engr/Math/CS Library Web site
Finding library-based information
UNH Library Database list
How to find articles. Database examples: Applied Science and Technology;
Academic Search Premier;
ACM Digital Library
Looking up a journal or book in the UNH Library Catalog (http://library.unh.edu)
1. Looking it up -- examples
2. Fun (?) with call numbers
(Library of Congress classification outline)
3. Click if it's online: Safari Tech Books (title search)
Citations
Why cite?
- It's the right thing to do. Cite EVERY idea and fact that you got from another source.
- It makes you look good! Acknowledging your sources properly gives YOU credibility.
- Web pages are just as much the author’s creation as a printed book, so they should be cited if you use them.
How to cite (examples also on hand-out):
Your text: It has been said that music is inherently four-dimensional (Gilmore 2002)
“(Gilmore 2002)” is a brief reference that you put right after the idea, fact, or quotation that you are acknowledging. Then, you put the full citation in your reference list, in a format like this:
1. Article (author, year, article title, journal, volume, issue, pages):
Gilmore, David. 2002. Songs for acoustic analysis. Scientific American 118:1, 78-82.
2. Book (author, book title, place & year published, pages where you found the idea, fact or quote):
Gilmore, David. 2002. Songs for Acoustic Analysis (New York: Random House), pp. 78-82.
3. Web site (author (if you can tell), title (at top of page), URL, date accessed):
Gilmore, David. Songs for acoustic analysis. URL: http://www.songbook.org/~gilmore/aa.html (Accessed 1 Oct. 2007).
Steps to using the library (David Lane, UNH BioSci Library)
Remember-- the library is free and library staff are here to help YOU.
Emily Poworoznek * el at unh.edu * Engineering & Physical Sciences Librarian
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
4 September 2007